J J Cook: 100 books
Spinoza's 'Ethics'
A Reader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
The Ethics is one of the undisputed masterworks of early modern philosophy. In this single volume Spinoza offers the reader an unorthodox account of God, a novel version of the mind-body relation, a systematic theory of the emotions and a detailed prescription for human virtue and blessedness. Too...
The Debt Collector's Handbook
Collecting Debts, Finding Assets, Enforcing Judgments, and Beating Your Creditors
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015
Winning your case in court is only half the battle. It's a fact that some people hide their assets to avoid paying debts and judgments. This truly unique book will show you how to find and reach that hidden money.
Author David J. Cook is a veteran collections attorney who has been chasing down...
Gun Violence
The Real Costs
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2000
100 billion dollars. That is the annual cost of gun violence in America according to the authors of this landmark study, a book destined to change the way Americans view the problem of gun-related violence. Until now researchers have assessed the burden imposed by gunshot injuries and deaths in terms...
by Richard J Cook, Jerald F. Lawless
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Multistate Models for the Analysis of Life History Data provides the first comprehensive treatment of multistate modeling and analysis, including parametric, nonparametric and semiparametric methods applicable to many types of life history data. Special models such as illness-death, competing risks...
Paying the Tab
The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The answer, hands down, is alcohol. The pain comes not only from drunk driving and lost lives but also addiction, family strife, crime, violence, poor health, and squandered human potential. Young and old, drinkers and...
In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman
Mathematics at the Limits of Computation
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
What is the shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin? It sounds simple enough, yet the traveling salesman problem is one of the most intensely studied puzzles in applied mathematics—and it has defied solution...
Working Women, Literary Ladies
The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2008
Working Women, Literary Ladies explores the simultaneous entry of working-class women in the United States into wage-earning factory labor and into opportunities for mental and literary development. It is the first book to examine the fascinating exchange between the work and literary spheres for...
by Roy J. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
This treasury of beloved poems collects all your favorite poets in one book. Whether you’re looking for a love poem or something to mend a broken heart, perhaps you’re feeling patriotic or struggling to understand the nature of man, the timeless words of Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Milton,...
Modern Jews Engage the New Testament
Enhancing Jewish Well-Being in a Christian Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
An honest, probing look at the dynamics of the New Testament—in relation to problems that disconcert Jews and Christians today.
Despite the New Testament’s impact on Jewish history, virtually all Jews avoid knowledge of its underlying dynamics. Jewish families and communities thus remain...
by J. Henry Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
The book give a detailed account of the life of a well sought after musician/executive up until the injury of the massive stroke is incurred. Several encounters with life and death are dealt with head on and there are lessons taught by the Most High that are priceless. You must be in it to win it...
Baseball's Good Guys
The Real Heroes of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
From Lou Gehrig to Derek Jeter, here are 26 players, including one woman, fans will want to get to know better because of their courage, determination, charity, and sacrifice.
by Peter J Cook
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
With the general reader in mind, Clean Energy, Climate and Carbon outlines the global challenge of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. It covers the changing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide through time and its causes, before considering the promise and the limitations of a wide range of...
by J.S. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
When former Indiana farm boy William Henry Rider goes on a bank robbing spree in Benedict Fouts's corner of Depression Era Illinois, it's up to Ben to bring him in. But Rider is no ordinary criminal. Famed for robberies that happen in the blink of an eye, Rider becomes a folk hero who steals from...
by J.S. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In the frigid winter of 1891, with the nation still reeling from the Barings bank crisis, Inspector Philemon Raft returns from an involuntary sabbatical, tasked with solving the kidnapping of highly placed peer Miriam Dewberry. Thrust into a sordid underworld where the upper classes indulge in disreputable...