Robert Cook: 30 books
by Robert Cook
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Iran’s nightmare nuclear attack on Israel is imminent, and former Marine and CIA Special Operations hunk, Alejandro Mohammed Cuchulain—otherwise known as Cooch—is back! Wielding his stunning brand of physical violence with the grace of a matador, Cooch brings intellect and Islamic scholarship...
Sweet Land of Liberty?
The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the ordinary men and women who were mobilised by the grass-roots activities of civil-rights workers and community leaders....
by Benjamin Bart, Robert Cook
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
The sources for La Légende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier, one of Flaubert’s finest literary works, have long been the subject of numerous conflicting theories. The implications of the controversy are broad and important, not only for Flaubert’s work but also for our understanding of how writers...
by Leifur Eiricksson, Robert Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control....
Civil War America
Making a Nation, 1848-1877
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The American Civil War was without doubt the defining event in the history of the United States. This up-to-date analyisis of a critical period goes beyond the origins, course and consequences of the Civil War to bring in other important themes such as racial conflict, gender relations, religion, the popular memory and state formation.
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...
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...
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...
Continuity and Change in the Native American Village
Multicultural Origins and Descendants of the Fort Ancient Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Two common questions asked in archaeological investigations are: where did a particular culture come from, and which living cultures is it related to? In this book, Robert A. Cook brings a theoretically and methodologically holistic perspective to his study on the origins and continuity of Native...
Barack Obama and the New America
The 2012 Election and the Changing Face of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Larry Sabato, one of the leading experts in American politics, has brought together respected journalists and academics from across the political spectrum to examine every facet of the 2012 election, and what its development and outcome will mean for the nation moving forward. In frank, accessible...
by Jody Lynn Nye, Lee French, Sarah Craft
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
THESE LADIES AREN'T WAITING.
Twenty bestselling and award-winning authors offer enchanting tales of women and girls forging paths through darkness and peril. Cleverness, curiosity, and determinations make worthy heroines in fantastical new worlds.
Featuring stories by:
Jody Lynn...
The Surge
2014's Big GOP Win and What It Means for the Next Presidential Election
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The 2014 midterm election was one of the most significant in recent memory, with a decisive turning of the tables in favor of Republicans. With a now-Republican-controlled Senate and House at odds with a Democratic president with only two years left in office, the fault lines within and between both...
WENN DIE TAGE KÜRZER WERDEN
Sechs Western-Romane US-amerikanischer Autoren auf über 1200 Seiten!
Language: German
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Herbstzeit ist Lesezeit – die von Christian Dörge zusammengestellte und herausgegebene Sammlung Wenn die Tage kürzer werden enthält sechs ausgesuchte und klassische Spitzen-Romane US-amerikanischer Autoren, perfekten Lesestoff also für alle Western-Fans und Leser der Reihe APEX WESTERN an langen,...