Cobb: 371 books

Our objective is to publish a book that lays out the theoretical constructs and research methodologies within mathematics education that have been developed by Paul Cobb and explains the process of their development. We propose to do so by including papers in which Cobb introduced new theoretical...

In this audacious memoir, William Cobb reveals the tumultuous creative life of a distinguished practitioner of southern and Alabama storytelling. As poignant and inspiring as his own fiction, Captain Billy’s Troopers traces Cobb’s early life, education, and struggles with alcohol and the debilitating...

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1876 – 1944) was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories. Several of Cobb's stories were made into silent films. He also wrote the screen titles. Cobb also had an acting career, appearing in 10...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Roughing it De Luxe.’   “Cobb is a marvelous writer. The section about his travels in the Grand Canyon needs to be read by every person who likes both travel and humor, because it's hysterically funny. Cobb comes...

Irving S. Cobb discusses the human body and its various strange parts in his own inimitable hilarious style. He discusses the tummy and the problems of having a large one; teeth, hair and finally hands and feet. Cobb joined the staff of the magazine Saturday Evening Post during 1911, and covered...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Eating in Two or Three Languages.’   The famous book of wartime culinary memoirs by Irvin S. Cobb.   Cobb joined the staff of the magazine Saturday Evening Post during 1911, and covered the Great War...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, ‘Europe Revised.’   Mr. Cobb's commentary on traveling in Europe as an American around the turn of the previous century gives an interesting sense of the era, and is always at least mildly amusing. But the real...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘A Plea for Old Cap Collier.’   This is a short novel in which the author makes the case for the value of dime novels as a more fun, immediate read than the "classic" books more in favor with parents and educators....

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1876 – 1944) was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist. This collection contains 25 of his novels & short story anthologies: Cobb’s Anatomy Back Home: Being the Narrative of Judge Priest and His People The Escape of Mr. Trimm: His Plight and Other...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘The Thunders of Silence.’   A disturbing, and luckily impossible to implement, story of a demagogue driven to destruction by the press. He has to be destroyed because he is treasonous--he preaches peace when the country...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Cobb's Bill-of-Fare.’   Upon a certain gladsome occasion a certain man went into a certain restaurant in a certain large city, being imbued with the idea that he desired a certain kind of food. Expense was with him...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Fibble, D.D..’   A collection of three short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post, telling the comic misadventures of the Rev. Roscoe Titmarsh Fibble, D.D.   Cobb joined the staff...

“Cobb is a marvelous writer. The section about his travels in the Grand Canyon needs to be read by every person who likes both travel and humor, because it's hysterically funny. Cobb comes across in some ways like an early Bill Bryson. Highly recommended.” Avis Black Cobb joined the staff...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Those Times And These.’   A classic work of fiction featuring Judge Priest, dramatic and compelling, using a wealthy of precisely rendered detail to evoke a powerful mood.   Cobb joined the staff of...