Philip Cooke: 12 books

Book cover of Growth Cultures

Growth Cultures

The Global Bioeconomy and its Bioregions

by Philip Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013

This groundbreaking book is the first comparative analysis of the relative strengths of global bioregions. Growth Cultures investigates the rapidly growing phenomena of biotechnology and sets this study within a knowledge economy context. Philip Cooke proposes a new knowledge-focused theoretical framework,...
Book cover of The Legacy of the Italian Resistance
by Philip Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011

This book adds to this growing body of scholarship on the Italian Resistance by analysing, for the first time, how the 'three wars' are represented over the broad spectrum of Resistance culture from 1945 to the present day. Furthermore, it makes this contribution to scholarship by bridging the gap...
Book cover of L’eredità della Resistenza

L’eredità della Resistenza

Storia, cultura, politiche dal dopoguerra a oggi

by Philip Cooke
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 30, 2015

In questo ricco e dettagliato studio a carattere interdisciplinare, lo storico inglese Philip Cooke prende in esame la duratura e contrastata eredità della Resistenza, ricostruendo i mutevoli e ambivalenti atteggiamenti sviluppati dai principali partiti politici e dalle istituzioni repubblicane nel...
Book cover of Knowledge Economies

Knowledge Economies

Clusters, Learning and Cooperative Advantage

by Philip Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002

This book traces the theoretical explanation for clusters back to the work of classical economists and their more modern disciples, who saw economic development as a process involving serious imbalances in the exploitation of resources. Initially, natural resource endowments explained the formation...
Book cover of Complex Adaptive Innovation Systems

Complex Adaptive Innovation Systems

Relatedness and Transversality in the Evolving Region

by Philip Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013

Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. Rooted in the idea that ‘policy’ is an encumbrance to free markets, the stress on supply-side smoothing measures such...
Book cover of Towards Global Localization
by Philip Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015

This volume redefines the genre of sector studies. The first part of the book compares the experiences of Britain and France in the very voltaile world of high-tech industries during the 1980s. The macroeconomic regulation approach is carried over a microeconomic level in the empirical chapters through...
Book cover of Back to the Future (RLE Social Theory)

Back to the Future (RLE Social Theory)

Modernity, Postmodernity and Locality

by Philip Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014

Is modernity being replaced by an opposite culture of postmodernity, or is postmodernism simply an internal critique of modernist culture? This key question is central to this stimulating book which explores the transformations taking place in social life, cultural preferences, economic organization...
Book cover of Ending Terrorism in Italy
by Anna Cento Bull, Philip Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013

Ending Terrorism in Italy analyses processes of disengagement from terrorism, as well as the connected issues of reconciliation, truth and justice. It examines in a critical and original way how terrorism came to an end in Italy (Part I), and the legacy it has left behind (Part II). The book interrogates...
Book cover of Scenes and Adventures in the Army

Scenes and Adventures in the Army

Or, Romance of Military Life

by Philip St. George Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017

Scenes and Adventures in the Army: Or, Romance of Military Life was first published in 1857. Cooke, then a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, described his extensive military service on the American frontier and included a detailed account of the various Native American tribes he encountered there....
Book cover of Strategy Six Pack 9
by Henry Bradley, G. K. Chesterton, Philip St. George Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016

“Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.” - Sun Tzu. Three separate eye-witness accounts of the Hugh Glass bear attack story, a Civil War diary from a POW incarcerated in the notorious prison Andersonville, Henry Bradley’s classic study The...
Book cover of The Revenant

The Revenant

Some Incidents in the Life of Hugh Glass, a Hunter of the Missouri River

by Philip St. George Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016

The new hit movie The Revenant is based on the life of American pirate, frontiersman, fur trapper, fur trader, hunter, and explorer Hugh Glass  (c. 1780 – 1833) who once made his way crawling and stumbling 200 miles (320 km) to Fort Kiowa, in South Dakota, after being abandoned without supplies...
Book cover of The 1862 US Cavalry Tactics

The 1862 US Cavalry Tactics

Instructions, Formations, Manoeuvres

by Philip St. George Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2004

Directed by the U.S. War Department in 1859 to prepare a new, revised manual for U.S. cavalry operations, then-Col. Philip St. George Cooke produced this book after extensive research of cavalry tactics used by the advanced nations in Europe, where he had been an observer in the Crimean War (1854-1856)....
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