Cook - History 1

A provocative exposé of how our attention, behavior, and desires have been co-opted by the “choice box”ーa curated set of options that offer a false sense of agency while funneling us down pre-deter……続きを見る

The first effort to reconstruct the history of the Pacific War exclusively from internal Japanese sources, from the renowned historians A magisterial work of political, social, and military history,……続きを見る

From our country's most important war historian, a vital history of the legacy of the Great War and the reverberating impact it has had on Canada since. The Western Front has dominated the culture a……続きを見る

A complete guide to the U.S. Navy awards of the Spanish-American War, including the Marine Corps Brevet Medal, the Cardenas Medal, the Specially Meritorious Service Medal, the Sampson Medal and the ……続きを見る

Edgar Award Finalist: A true-crime account of a vicious massacre and the legal battles that followed. It was not a clever killing. On May 5, 1973, three men escaped from a Maryland prison and disapp……続きを見る

In this gripping memoir, Maurice C. Cook takes us on an extraordinary journey from the humble beginnings of small-town Texas to the pinnacle of law enforcement as the Chief of the Texas Rangers. A t……続きを見る

The City Guard: A History of Company B First Regiment Infantry, N. G. C. During the Sacramento Campaign, July 3 to 26, 1894, Including a Brief History of the Company Since Its Organization March 31,……続きを見る

Writing Queer History explores the remarkable and various ways in which historians and others have contended with the queer past. From the radical ferment of the 1960s and the emergence of lesbian a……続きを見る

Explore the history of Ohio's one-bite wonder! From humble origins, the buckeye has become Ohio's namesake candy. Though a classic combination of chocolate and peanut butter, each producer's offerin……続きを見る

Spirits and specters linger, haunt and taunt locals and strangers alike throughout Bartlesville. Some of the city's hottest tourist spots are host to chilling tales of otherworldly visitors. A fair ……続きを見る

Esta edición digital en formato ePub se ha realizado a partir de una edición impresa digitalizada que forma parte de los fondos de la Biblioteca Nacional de España. El proyecto de creación de ePubs ……続きを見る

Deciphers the mysterious Bronze Age Linear A script, revealing it as Middle Egyptian accounting records from Crete. Linear A is a Middle and Late Bronze Age script principally used on Crete. Dated t……続きを見る

Ruling But Not Governing highlights the critical role that the military plays in the stability of the Egyptian, Algerian, and, until recently, Turkish political systems. This in-depth study demonstr……続きを見る

"A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World" in 2 volumes is an inspiring personal account of the second voyage of James Cook, from 1772 to 1775, commissioned by the British government with……続きを見る

Several decades after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and after numerous conspiracy theories, in 1997 the final investigation of Dr. King’s death took place. One of ……続きを見る

"...a brutal, honest account by an American veteran of what went wrong and how a few determined people tried to make it right. Beautifully crafted and deeply researched, it marks a vital contributio……続きを見る

In "Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World made in H.M. bark 'Endeavour'," James Cook presents a meticulously detailed account of his groundbreaking expedition from 1768 to 1……続きを見る

This book opens readers’ eyes to something they see all the time but take for granted: street signs. It is a portrait of the signs on modern English streets: what they look like, who and what they a……続きを見る

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spanish authorities restricted emigration to the Americas to those who could prove they had been Catholic for at least three generations. In doing so,……続きを見る

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 preparati……続きを見る

CONTENTS: Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell “Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” Richard Bell “Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slave……続きを見る

Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as DeAnne Bl……続きを見る

Born in a provincial city in the Peruvian Andes, the Franciscan linguist and theologian Luis Gerónimo de Oré (1554–1630) lived during a critical period in the formation of the modern world, as the g……続きを見る

In Gwinnett County’s two hundred years, the area has been western, southern, rural, suburban, and now increasingly urban. Its stories include the displacement of Native peoples, white settlement, le……続きを見る

Conflict Dynamics presents case studies of six nation-states: Sierra Leone, the Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Peru. In the book, Alethia H. Cook and Marie Olson Lounsbery exa……続きを見る

The untold story of the Royal Navy's experimental submarine cruiser, built in secret after WWI, and torpedoed by political propaganda. The 'X' stood for experimental, but it might equally have meant……続きを見る

A comprehensive, fully illustrated encyclopedia of river gunboats from the early 19th century to the present day. The first recorded engagement by a steam-powered warship took place on a river, when……続きを見る

With the exception of the banana, the cultivated plants which were shared with America by the natives of the islands of the Pacific and of the old world tropics appear to be of American origin, and ……続きを見る

By: Harvey Toliver Cook, Pub. 1926, Reprinted 2018, 494 pages, Index, E_BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-385-6. This is an excellent companion to Gregg's History of the Old Cheraws. In a charming written nar……続きを見る

By: Albert Cook Myers, Pub. 1955, reprinted 2023, 124 pages, E-BOOK, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-517-1. The region that these land surveys cover was called the West Side Delaware River. It ran from New……続きを見る