J Cook: 100 books
by J. J. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
From the national bestselling author of the Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade Mysteries comes a tasty prequel novella to J.J. Cook’s new series featuring Zoe Chase, a Southern food truck chef who serves justice on the side.
After quitting her job, the first thing Zoe Chase has to do is to drive out to the...
Civil War Senator
William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
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...
Troubled Commemoration
The American Civil War Centennial, 1961–1965
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
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 one-hundredth anniversary of the central event in the Republic's history. Politicians...
Bureaucracy and Self-Government
Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In this new edition of his provocative book Bureaucracy and Self-Government, Brian J. Cook reconsiders his thesis regarding the inescapable tension between the ideal of self-government and the reality of administratively centered governance. Revisiting his historical exploration of competing conceptions...
Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook
Over 100 Easy Recipes for Fast and Delicious Meals
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Do you want to make great recipes for yourself and family using the Instant Pot? Did you get an Instant Pot as a present? Or do you already have one in the kitchen, but have no idea what to cook?
The Instant Pot® Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook will teach you to create a variety of healthy,...
The Complete Keto Diet for Beginners: 21-Day Keto Meal Plan for Beginners With Easy Recipes for Your Body (Keto Diet for Dummies: Keto Diet For Weight Loss: What is the Keto Diet)
The Complete Keto Diet for Beginners: 21-Day Keto Meal Plan for Beginners With Easy Recipes for Your Body
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Discover the simple secret to The Complete Keto Diet for Beginners!
S.J. Cook brings an entirely new approach to achieving health, healing, weight loss, and happiness through a keto-adapted lifestyle with The Keto Diet: The Complete Keto Diet for Beginners.
The Keto Diet for Beginners,...
Civil War Memories
Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
At 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...
Secession Winter
When the Union Fell Apart
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
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...
Postcommunist Welfare States
Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the early 1990s, the countries of the former Soviet Bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered broad, basic social welfare to their citizens. Inherited systems were inefficient and financially unsustainable. Linda J. Cook here explores the politics and policy of social...
The Gun Debate
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a fever pitch, the topic has preoccupied citizens, public officials, and special interest groups for...
by J. J. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Set in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, J. J. Cook’s thrilling new mystery series features Fire Chief Stella Griffin, who solves crime with the help of her predecessor, who just happens to be a ghost…
NO MATCH FOR MURDER
After knocking the lights out of her boyfriend when...
The Young Descartes
Nobility, Rumor, and War
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
René Descartes is best known as the man who coined the phrase “I think, therefore I am.” But though he is remembered most as a thinker, Descartes, the man, was no disembodied mind, theorizing at great remove from the worldly affairs and concerns of his time. Far from it. As a young nobleman,...
by Vivian J Cook, Vivian J Cook
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
English is increasingly becoming the world's lingua franca. If we are not native speakers of one of the many varieties of English, then we may be students of English, or use English regularly for academic or business purposes. The English Language series, which is international in focus, aims to synthesize...
Insolvency Explained
Bankruptcies, Assignments, Bulk Transfers, Receiverships, Probates, and Workouts
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
A complex and wide-ranging area of law, insolvency incorporates both federal law (bankruptcy) and state laws (assignments, bulk sales, receiverships, workouts, and probates), as well as other aspects that involve both federal and state law. Insolvency Explained is a clearly written, nuts-and-bolts...