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Civil War Memories
Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865
by Robert J. Cook, Robert J., Sussex House
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-2349-4, ISBN: 1-4214-2349-9

"Winner of the 2018 Book Prize in American Studies of the British Association of American StudiesAt a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and forgotten, this watershed conflict since its conclusion in 1865. Drawing on an array of textu ..."

Secession Winter
When the Union Fell Apart (The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series)
by Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney, Elizabeth R. Varon
Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2013 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-0896-5, ISBN: 1-4214-0896-1

"What prompted southern secession in the winter of 1860–61 and why did secession culminate in the American Civil War?Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays by three senior historians ..."

Troubled Commemoration(1st Edition)
The American Civil War Centennial, 1961--1965 (Making the Modern South)
by Robert J. Cook
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by Lsu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-4365-0, ISBN: 0-8071-4365-0

"In 1957, Congress voted to set up the United States Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency within the Department of the Interior, the commission's charge was to oversee preparations to commemorate the onehundredth anniversary of the central event in the Republic's history. Politicians hoped that a formal program of activities to mark the centennial of the Civil War would both bolster American patriotism at the heig ..."

Secession Winter
When the Union Fell Apart (The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series)
by Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney, Elizabeth R. Varon
Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2013 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-0895-8, ISBN: 1-4214-0895-3

"Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays by three senior historians in "Secession Winter" explore the robust debates that preceded these events.For five months in the winter of 1860-1 ..."

Conflicting Worlds
New Dimensions of the American Civil War Ser.: Civil War Senator : William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic
by Robert J. Cook
316 Pages, Published 2011 by Lsu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-3826-7, ISBN: 0-8071-3826-6

"If Ellen were not “so confounded ambitious,” he added, tongue in cheek, “the State might . . . look out for itself. Why will you compel me to mingle so much in politics—knowing as you do that I am 'never so happy as when in the bosom of my family. ... He did so, likely as not, first, because the powerful Bangor Whig Edward Kent wanted another tilt at the office and, second, ... When his friend Freeman H. Morse, a carpenter and ..."

Civil War Senator(1st Edition)
William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
by Robert J. Cook
Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 2011 by Louisiana State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-3707-9, ISBN: 0-8071-3707-3

"One of the most talented and influential American politicians of the nineteenth century, William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869) helped devise Union grand strategy during the Civil War. A native of Maine and son of a fiery New England abolitionist, he served in the United States Senate as a member of the Whig Party during the Kansas-Nebraska crisis and played a formative role in the development of the Republican Party. In this richly texture ..."

The Winner-Take-All Society(Reprint)
Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
by Robert H. Frank, Philip J. Cook
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1996 by Penguin Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-025995-7, ISBN: 0-14-025995-3

"Disney chairman Michael Eisner topped the 1993 Business Week chart of America's highest-paid executives, his $203 million in earnings roughly 10,000 times that of the lowest paid Disney employee. During the last two decades, the top one percent of U.S. earners captured more than 40 percent of the country's total earnings growth, one of the largest shifts any society has endured without a revolution or military defeat. Robert H. Frank ..."

Winner-Take-All Society(1st Edition)
by Robert H. Frank, Philip J. Cook, Cook Frank
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1995 by Free Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-02-874034-8, ISBN: 0-02-874034-3

"In this pathbreaking book, the subject of considerable pre-publication, two distinguished economists draw attention to an important and disturbing new trend that has dramatically transformed our economy in the last two decades: the spread of "winner-take-all" markets, where marginal differences in performance translate into huge differences in reward."

Havant & Hayling Island(1st Edition)
(Britain in old photographs)
by Robert Cook, R. J. Cook
Paperback, 125 Pages, Published 1996 by Sutton
ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-1317-1, ISBN: 0-7509-1317-7

"This fascinating collection of photographs, many of which are from private collections and never previously published, documents dramatic changes around Havant, Langstone and Hayling over the last hundred years.Robert Cook has created a memorable picture of this community by emphasizing the importance of people and everyday life, weaving into his captions many entertaining anecdotes - often told in the words of local people themselves. ..."

Leasing Office Space You Can Afford
Everything Companies Need to Know - from Finding Great Space and Negotiating the Lease to Moving In
by Robert J. Cook
Paperback, 350 Pages, Published 1992 by Probus Professional Pub
ISBN-13: 978-1-55738-457-7, ISBN: 1-55738-457-6

The Winner-Take-All Society
Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
by Robert H. Frank, Philip J. Cook
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2010 by Virgin Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 978-0-7535-2226-4, ISBN: 0-7535-2226-8

"Why does the top one per cent of the population capture such a disproportionate amount of the wealth? Why do top athletes win dozens of sponsorship deals, yet competitors who finish just moments behind struggle to attract a single deal? Why does one product become a runaway success, while others flounder and fail? The answer is the rise of 'winner-take-all' markets, in which small differences in performance lead to huge differences in r ..."

The Traveling Salesman Problem(2nd Edition)
A Computational Study (Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics)
by David L. Applegate, Robert E. Bixby, William J. Cook, Vasek Chvátal, Vasek Chvtal
Hardcover, 608 Pages, Published 2007 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12993-8, ISBN: 0-691-12993-2

"This book presents the latest findings on one of the most intensely investigated subjects in computational mathematics--the traveling salesman problem. It sounds simple enough: given a set of cities and the cost of travel between each pair of them, the problem challenges you to find the cheapest route by which to visit all the cities and return home to where you began. Though seemingly modest, this exercise has inspired studies by mathe ..."

Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis,(4th Edition)
by Robert Davis Cook, Michael E. Plesha, David S. Malkus, Robert J. Witt
Hardcover, 784 Pages, Published 2001 by Wiley
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-35605-9, ISBN: 0-471-35605-0

"This book has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect developments since the third edition, with an emphasis on structural mechanics. Coverage is up-to-date without making the treatment highly specialized and mathematically difficult. Basic theory is clearly explained to the reader, while advanced techniques are left to thousands of references available, which are cited in the text."

Kobold Guide to Plots & Campaigns
by Margaret Weis, Wolfgang Baur, Jeff Grubb, Amber E. Scott, Clinton J. Boomer, Robert J. Schwalb, Zeb Cook, James Jacobs, Kevin Kulp, Richard Pett, Ree Soesbee, Steve Winter, Ben Mcfarland
Paperback, 124 Pages, Published 2016 by Kobold Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-936781-62-1, ISBN: 1-936781-62-X

"The Best Role in Roleplaying Whether you’re a new gamemaster or a seasoned vet looking for a new angle to shake up your game, these 19 essays by 13 expert gamemasters demonstrate ways to construct your campaign from the ground up and keep your players engaged until the dramatic conclusion. Within this volume, masters of the art show you how to begin a new campaign, use published adventures or loot them for the best ideas, build toward c ..."

Shorter Westminster Catechism
by Westminster, Synod; Cook, Steve ; Cook, Steve ; Cook, Steve ; Bagley, Robert J. ;
Published by Independently Published
ISBN-13: 978-1-69315-797-4, ISBN: 1-69315-797-7

One Hundred and One Famous Poems(Updated)
by Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Frost, Thomas Gray, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Roy J. Cook, Karenrudyard Kipling Hesse, Roy Jay Cook
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1993 by Barnes & Noble Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-88029-747-9, ISBN: 0-88029-747-6

"From William Shakespeare to Robert Frost, from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Edna St. Vincent Millay, this is a collection of poetry."

Troubled Commemoration
The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965 (Making the Modern South)
by Robert J. Cook
Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2007 by Louisiana State Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-3227-2, ISBN: 0-8071-3227-6

Asian Politics in Developement(1st Edition)
Essays in Honour of Gordon White
by Robert Benewick, Sarah Cook, Marc Blecher, Gordon White, Andrew Wyatt
Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2003 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-7146-8324-9, ISBN: 0-7146-8324-8

The Best American Mystery Stories 2012
(The Best American Series)
by Mary Gaitskill, Tom Andes, Peter S. Beagle, K. L. Cook, Jason Deyoung, Kathleen Ford, Jesse Goolsby, Thomas J. Rice, Robert Crais, Otto Penzler, Charles Todd, T. Jefferson Parker
Paperback, 393 Pages, Published 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-13: 978-0-547-55398-6, ISBN: 0-547-55398-6

"The Best American Series®First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most re ..."

Barack Obama and the New America
The 2012 Election and the Changing Face of Politics
by James Campbell, Rhodes Cook, Michael Toner, Diana Owen, Nate Cohn, Geoff Skelley, Kyle Kondik, Jamelle Bouie, Larry J. Sabato, Robert Costa, Sean Trende, Susan Macmanus, Alan Abramowitz, Karen E. Trainer, Alan Ambramowitz
Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 2013 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-2264-9, ISBN: 1-4422-2264-6

"Larry Sabato, one of the leading experts in American politics, has brought together respected journalists and academics from across the political spectrum to examine every facet of the 2012 election, and what its development and outcome will mean for the nation moving forward. In frank, accessible prose, each author offers insight that goes beyond the headlines, and dives into the underlying forces and shifts that drove the election fro ..."

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