Author: Professor Richard M. Cook
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: biography, kazin, alfred
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2008-01-28
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0300115059
ISBN-13: 9780300115055

Born in 1915 to barely literate Jewish immigrants in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Alfred Kazin rose from near poverty to become a dominant figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and one of America’s last great men of letters. Biographer Richard M. Cook provides a portrait of Kazin in his public roles and in his frequently unhappy private life. Drawing on the personal journals Kazin kept for over 60 years, private correspondence, and numerous conversations with Kazin, he uncovers the full story of the lonely, stuttering boy from Jewish Brownsville who became a pioneering criti

Authors:Richard J. Cook, Jerald F. Lawless,
Publisher: Springer New York
Keywords: events, recurrent, analysis, statistical
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2009-11-23
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 1441924159
ISBN-13: 9781441924155

Recurrent event data arise in diverse fields such as medicine, public health, insurance, social science, economics, manufacturing and reliability. The purpose of this book is to present models and statistical methods for the analysis of recurrent event data. No single comprehensive treatment of these areas currently exists. The authors provide broad but detailed coverage of the major approaches to analysis, while also emphasizing the modeling assumptions that they are based on. Thus, they consider important models such as Poisson and renewal processes, with extensions to incorporate covariates

Authors:Alan N. Andersen, Garry D. Cook, Richard J. Willi
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ecological, studies, experiment, kapalga, tropical, savannas, fire
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 2003-06-24
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 038700291X
ISBN-13: 9780387002910

The ten-year research program and the Kapalga fire experiment at CSIRO in Australia has provided a wealth of knowledge about savanna ecosystems and the critical but poorly understood role of fire. The frequent low intensity fires examined in this volume characterize fire in the tropics and are a dominant force in shaping the structure and function of tropical ecosystems. This book will be valuable to tropical and savanna ecologists, fire ecologists and fire managers throughout the world, whether they are interested in plants, animals, soils or in the landscape as a whole.

Authors:Alexandra Parma Cook, Noble David Cook,
Publisher: Duke University Pre
Keywords: transatlantic, bigamy, case, ignorance, truthful, faith
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1991-06-17
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0822312220
ISBN-13: 9780822312222

Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied by his second wife, Francisco returned to his home in Spain after a profitable twenty-year sojourn in the new world of Peru. However, unlike most other rich conquistadores who returned to the land of their birth, Francisco was not allowed to settle into a life of leisure. Instead, he was charged with bigamy and illegal shipment of silver, was arrested and imprisoned. Francisco’s first wife (thought long dead) had filed suit in Spa

Authors:Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook,
Publisher: New Press
Keywords: history, oral, war, japan
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1995-04-04
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1565840399
ISBN-13: 9781565840393

This groundbreaking work of oral history captures for the first time ever the remarkable story of ordinary Japanese people during World War II. In a sweeping panorama, Haruko Taya and Theodore Cook take us from the Japanese attacks on China in the 1930s to the Japanese homefront during the inhuman raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, offering the first glimpses of how this century’s most violent conflict affected the lives of the Japanese population. Japan At War is a monumental work of history--one to which Americans and Japanese will turn for decades to come.

Authors:Joan Littlefield Cook, Greg Cook,
Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc.
Keywords: book, perspectives, principles, development, child
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2005-12-15
List price: $139.93
ISBN-10: 0205314112
ISBN-13: 9780205314119

This topically organized book uses a student-friendly writing style, intuitive design, and an active learning system to help students critically explore the many perspectives on child development. Child Development: Principles and Perspectives encourages students to take an active role in their learning and to think about children’s development from a variety of perspectives. Through interviews, cases, and vignettes, students gain a broad understanding of the viewpoints of people who work with, live with, and care for children, bringing this dynamic field to life! From the start of each

Authors:Peter Cook, William Cook,
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Keywords: cook, peter, complete, twin, tragically
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-11-19
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 031231891X
ISBN-13: 9780312318918

To his many friends as well as his legion of fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man ever. His unique gifts and the way he led the transformation of British comedy (from music hall to perverse absurdity) and his clear comic influence on Monty Python’s Flying Circus and every show since, has been much written about. But never before has there been a collection of Cook’s own writings.Tragically, I Was an Only Twin gathers the treasures of Cook’s comic career, from school and university via Beyond the Fringe alongside Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore,