Sökt på: Böcker av Robert J. Cook
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The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
Disney chairman Michael Eisner topped the 1993 Business Week chart of America's highest-paid executives, his $203 million in earnings roughly 10,000 times that of the lowest paid …
The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered
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 …
Secession Winter
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 …
Secession Winter
Three historians examine what drove southern secession in the winter of 1860-1861 and why it culminated in the American Civil War.Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of …
Troubled Commemoration
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 …
Troubled Commemoration
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 …
Traveling Salesman Problem
This book presents the latest findings on one of the most intensely investigated subjects in computational mathematics--the traveling salesman problem. It sounds simple enough: …
Eastern Old-Growth Forests
"Eastern Old-Growth Forests" is the first book devoted exclusively to old growth throughout the East. Authoritative essays from leading experts examine the ecology and …
Civil War Memories
"e;Cook makes clear the powerful ways that the reverberations of the Civil War still resonate within American political culture. A compelling story."e; -Joan Waugh, author …
Civil War Senator
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 …
Winner-Take-All Society
Why does the top one per cent of the population capture such a disproportionate amount of the wealth? Why do top athletes win dozens of sponsorship deals, yet competitors who …