Coll: 71 books
The Taking of Getty Oil
Pennzoil, Texaco, and the Takeover Battle That Made History
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A larger-than-life account of family, greed, and a courtroom showdown between Big Oil rivals from the New York Times–bestselling author of Private Empire.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Steve Coll is renowned for “his ability to take complicated, significant business stories and turn them...
Directorate S
The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
**Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat...
by Jack Coll
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The banks of the Schuylkill once echoed with the hum of the steel mills, and immigrants came across the sea to transform Conshohocken and West Conshohocken into thriving industrial towns. When the storm clouds gathered in Europe, the neighboring communities proudly sent more sons and daughters per capita...
On the Grand Trunk Road
A Journey into South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S, a trek across a socially and politically damaged South Asia
Bestselling author Steve Coll is one of the preeminent journalists of the twenty-first century. His last two books, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars...
El pueblo judío en la historia
Política, sociedad, religión y cultura
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 15, 2014
El pueblo judío en la historia: política, sociedad, religión y cultura aborda ―centrándose en los judíos― algunos de los principales aspectos que suelen caracterizar la vida de las personas y que, por tanto, contribuyen a identificar a las civilizaciones y a ciertos grupos sociales. Combinando...
by Juan Pedro Cavero Coll
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Breve historia del pueblo judío es el título del libro escrito por el historiador Juan Pedro Cavero Coll y editado por Nowtilus. Un ejemplar que resume en ocho capítulos la trayectoria de un pueblo en el que han nacido Moisés, Jesucristo y Carlos Marx entre otros y que reconoce como padre a Abraham....
El pueblo judío en la historia
Desde los comienzos hasta el Holocausto
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Obra histórica enriquecida con abundantes citas de conocidos autores, narra, en orden cronológico, la vida del pueblo judío desde su formación hasta mediados del siglo XX. Desde la Edad Antigua hasta la Contemporánea, un recorrido por varios continentes lleno de sorpresas, de tolerancia e incomprensiones,...
The Bin Ladens
An Arabian Family in the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
The rise and rise of the Bin Laden family is one of the great stories of the twentieth century; its repercussions have already deeply marked the twenty-first. Until now, however, it is a story that has never been fully told, as the Bin Ladens have successfully fended off attempts to understand the...
Private Empire
ExxonMobil and American Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
**From the award-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S, an “extraordinary” and “monumental” exposé of Big Oil (The Washington Post)
Includes a profile of current Secretary of State and former chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson**
In...
The Deal of the Century
The Breakup of AT&T
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
**A New York Times–bestselling author’s “superbly reported” account of the dismantling of the world’s largest corporation (The Washington Post).
Written by the two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ghost Wars and Private Empire, The Deal of the Century chronicles the decade-long...
Eagle on the Street
The SEC and Wall Street during the Reagan Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A “spellbinding account” of Wall Street deregulation in the 1980s, based on a Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post series (The New York Times Book Review).
Described by the New York Times Book Review as “worthy of being on the same shelf” as Liar’s Poker, Greed and Glory on Wall...
Beach Week
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Ah, "beach week": a time-honored tradition in which the D.C. suburbs' latest herd of high school grads flocks to Chelsea Beach for seven whole days of debauched celebration. In this dark comedy, ten teenage girls plan an unhinged blowout the likes of which their young lives have never seen....
Ghost Wars
The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invas ion to September 10, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
**Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Directorate S, the explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan**
To what extent did America’s best intelligence analysts grasp the rising thread of Islamist radicalism?...
Native Seattle
Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography
In traditional scholarship, Native Americans have been conspicuously absent from urban history. Indians appear at the time of contact, are involved in fighting or treaties, and then seem to vanish, usually onto reservations....