A Cook: 80 books

Half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change, hopes for democracy have disappeared in a maelstrom of violence and renewed state repression. Egypt remains an authoritarian state, Syria and Yemen are in the midst of devastating civil wars, Libya has descended...

Two common questions asked in archaeological investigations are: where did a particular culture come from, and which living cultures is it related to? In this book, Robert A. Cook brings a theoretically and methodologically holistic perspective to his study on the origins and continuity of Native...

Labeling this era “Age of Fools” in the tradition of 15th century Sebastian Brant’s “Ship of Fools” and embellishing his work with artwork by Edward Beardsley, William Cook writes: “How ironic that the self-proclaimed righteous, the born again Christian Zionists and the Jewish Zionists wheedle...

The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectual life, Egypt is a linchpin of the US's Middle East strategy, receiving more aid than any nation except Israel. This is not the first time that the world...

A Compelling Indictment of the Bush-Sponsored New World Order of Endless Wars against Arabs/Moslems. ‘By rights this book's cover should show Bill Cook, triumphant on the flight deck of Truth, with a big sign behind him saying Mission Accomplished. He nails Bush's lethal Middle East rampages fair and square.’ --Alexander Cockburn, co-editor CounterPunch, Nation columnist

Using Shakespeare's Hamlet as a test subject and cognitive linguistic theory of conceptual blending as a tool, Cook unravels the 'mirror held up to nature' at the center of Shakespeare's play and provides a methodology for applying cognitive science to the study of drama.

THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT PALESTINE IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM B.C. In the Light of Archæology and the Inscriptions By STANLEY A. COOK, M.A. EX-FELLOW, AND LECTURER IN HEBREW AND SYRIAC, GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AUTHOR OF 'A GLOSSARY OF THE ARAMAIC INSCRIPTIONS,'...

Prince Paide ein Iteme has lost his father, his family, his people and his home to a conquering necromancer queen and her armies of the risen dead. A last horrific battle sees him forced to discuss surrender, but that conversation is no small amount complicated when said conquering necromancer is his mother. Who might not have been entirely wrong in her overthrow of Paide’s father…

Seven years ago, Darius Liviu met a talking sword belt in the Great Souk, an eldritch being who changed his life forever. In that time, he has learnt something of the sword, mastered strange magic and survived dangerous jobs, but while he has friends in Rajad, he still feels out of place—too divergent...

Amelia March is tired of suitors breaking into her house after dark to express their undying love. Sure, it might be the fashion, but whatever happened to getting to know someone first? Why won’t they listen to her when she says she isn’t interested? And what does it mean that her cousin Kit thinks...

For all the bombast and rhetoric demonizing one side by the other, here is a little book of humor which explores the actual differences between so called conservatives and liberals. It is an apolitical jaunt through the characteristics that supposedly divide our citizenry. Composed of simple two line...

In the tradition of the fortune cookie and Bartlett's Quotations, comes an original collection of over 700 supposedly pithy, sage, humorous morsels of deep thought. It is the perfect pre-packaged ingredient list for a better life, mind, and spirit in today's hectic self absorbed age. Enlightenment...

Ancient China: A History surveys the East Asian Heartland Region – the geographical area that eventually became known as China – from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, to the early imperial era of Qin and Han, up to the threshold of the medieval period in the third century CE. For most...

Eva Porter is a 32 year old woman starting her life over. Her marriage was wrought with betrayal and disappointment, ending both her dreams of true love and her career. She's starting over as a ghostwriter to the rich and famous, and she's beginning to put the pieces of her life back together....