Cook: 1663 books
Unraveling Internal Conflicts in East Asia and the Pacific
Incidence, Consequences, and Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Civil wars and internal conflicts pose the greatest threat to international peace and security in the twenty-first century. Nowhere is this problem more acute than in East Asia and the Pacific, which has far more of its share of such conflicts. Unraveling Internal Conflicts in East Asia and the Pacific:...
Mindfulness and Yoga in Schools
A Guide for Teachers and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This is the first research-based text intended to help teachers and practitioners implement mindfulness and yoga programs in schools. A complete review of the literature on mindfulness and yoga interventions is provided along with detailed steps on how to implement such programs. Training requirements,...
by Nicholas Cook
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Until recently, ideas of creativity in music revolved around composers in garrets and the lone genius. But the last decade has witnessed a sea change: musical creativity is now overwhelmingly thought of in terms of collaboration and real-time performance. Music as Creative Practice is a first attempt...
Gatekeeper to Los Alamos
Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In March 1943 Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin took a position that catapulted her into the center of the Manhattan Project. Her office, 109 East Palace Avenue in Santa Fe New Mexico, was the entry point for all scientists, technicians, and their families who came to Los Alamos, an isolated mesa in north-central...
Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships
Critical Examinations
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships explores and critically examines the opportunities and challenges presented in mentoring relationships involving women of color. While all mentoring relationships are unique to the individuals involved in them, this book highlights the roles of race,...
Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story
The Haunted Text
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story is a lively series of case studies celebrating the close relationship between detective fiction and the ghost story. It features many of the most famous authors from both genres including Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, M. R. James and Tony Hillerman.
When the Sun Comes up in the West
A Missionary’S New Song of Justice and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
It is Unputdownable!&rdquo
Rev. Dawn Linder
Compassion is indeed not pity; it is to believe in and live by justice. Rev. Bob Cooks life and ministry, in so many ways, offers the proof necessary to live by the only life that countscompassion: to suffer with. To speak with Bob about those...
Assessing Disorganized Attachment Behaviour in Children
An Evidence-Based Model for Understanding and Supporting Families
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Assessing Disorganized Attachment Behaviour in Children lays out an evidence-based model for working with and assessing children with disorganized attachment and their adult carers: families whose extreme, erratic and disturbing behaviour can make them perplexing and frustrating to work with.
The...
Time Flies
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
From the bestselling author of the beloved book Must Love Dogs, later made into a film starring John Cusack and Diane Lane, comes a new novel about what happens when we think everything is falling apart, and discover that we can pick up the pieces after all.
Years ago, Melanie followed her...
by Maurice Cook
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
This book explains in simple physical terms how all electronic systems operate and so will hopefully remove their mysteries.
Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
by Jane Hampton Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
• The book features 365 devotionals, one for each day of the year. • Each devotional features a 400-450-word story, a relevant scripture, and an application-oriented sentence prayer. • Each week highlights five stories that chronicle the Revolutionary War, followed by two weekend features called...
Disease and Sanitation in Victorian Britian
Lessons for the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This book highlights the huge advances made in prevention of infectious disease(s) in Victorian Britain. The actual cause of most disease was then unknown, as it was throughout most of the nineteenth century, but it was awareness of their association with poverty, overcrowding, poor ventilation and...
Before the 'Germ Theory'
A History of Cause and Management of Infectious Disease before 1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is rapidly becoming a major concern of medical practitioners worldwide. In fact, unless it is dealt with as a matter of urgency, we shall return to the ‘Dark Ages of Medicine’ as the British Prime Minister has recently warned. This book vividly paints the scenario...