Joseph Cook: 8 books

Cassio's language in Othello is to-day adopted by cool physiological science: "O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should, with joy, revel, pleasure and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently...

Alcohol and the Human Brain Alcohol injures the blood by changing the color and chemical composition of its corpuscles. In the stereopticon illustrations, you saw that the red discs of blood are distorted in shape by the action of alcohol. You saw that the arrangement of the coloring...

Have you ever wanted to create a Secret Club and go on exciting adventures? The Secret Club Visits the Art Museum follows the original members on an exciting adventure to the art museum. The children learn how to plan and save their money for their adventure. With their parent’s guidance,...

Have you ever wanted to create a Secret Club? What if the Secret Club went on exciting adventures? The Secret Club is a book about the adventures and imaginations of children. As children, my sister and I created the Secret Club. We used our imaginations in the same manner as the children in the book....

Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries,...

Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture—and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature—few scholarly collections have examined the complex relationships...

In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically questionable situations that have arisen in response to institutional dependency on external benefactors. Major concerns analyzed include: The increased professionalism of fundraising and of donating, an increased willingness of institutions...

This foundational text for understanding housing, housing design, homeownership, housing policy, special topics in housing, and housing in a global context has been comprehensively revised to reflect the changed housing situation in the United States during and after the Great Recession and its subsequent...