Charles Cobb: 12 books
From Quarry to Cornfield
The Political Economy of Mississippian Hoe Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
From Quarry to Cornfield provides an innovative model for examining the technology of hoe production and its contribution to the agriculture of Mississippian communities.
Lithic specialist Charles Cobb examines the political economy in Mississippian communities through a case study of raw material...
by Patty Jo Watson, Janet Rafferty, Joseph M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.
The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. at the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. Just for self-defense,” King assured him. One of King's advisors remembered the reverend's home as an arsenal.” Like King, many nonviolent activists embraced...
Arctic Homestead
The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2003
In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine years old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pulled up stakes in the lower 48 and headed north to Alaska to follow a pioneer dream of claiming land under the Homestead Act. The only land available lay...
The Remembered Gate
Memoirs By Alabama Writers
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This collection of reflective essays–all exploring themes of artistic self-discovery and regional awareness–showcases 19 nationally known writers who have roots in Alabama.
In The Remembered Gate, nationally prominent fiction writers, essayists, and poets recall how their formative years...
On the Road to Freedom
A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
This in-depth look at the civil rights movement goes to the places where pioneers of the movement marched, sat-in at lunch counters, gathered in churches; where they spoke, taught, and organized; where they were arrested, where they lost their lives, and where they triumphed.
Award-winning...
by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Montague Rhodes James
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
This volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Asquith, Cynthia: “The Corner Shop” Benson, E. F.: “Caterpillars” Benson, E. F.: “The Face” Bierce, Ambrose: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Bierce, Ambrose: “The Middle Toe of the...
by E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...
Making Sense of Agile Project Management
Balancing Control and Agility
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
The book is intended to provide a much deeper understanding of agile principles, methodologies, and practices to enable project managers to develop a more agile approach and understand how to blend and tailor agile and traditional principles, methodologies, and practices to create an appropriate balance...
The Project Manager's Guide to Mastering Agile
Principles and Practices for an Adaptive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Streamline project workflow with expert agile implementation
The Project Management Profession is beginning to go through rapid and profound transformation due to the widespread adoption of agile methodologies. Those changes are likely to dramatically change the role of project managers in...
Radical Equations
Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2002
At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside-national standards, high-stakes tests, charismatic individual saviors-the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of...
This Light of Ours
Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine activist photographers-men and women who chose to document the national struggle against segregation and other forms of race-based...