“cook robert manuel”

Oriented toward those who will use finite elements (FE) rather than toward theoreticians and computer programmers. Emphasizes the behavior of FE and how to use the FE method successfully. Includes several examples of FE analysis— each one features a critique of the accuracy of the solutions. C... More

Dealing with the basics of the Christian life, this simple, informal book offers counsel from both the biblical text and human experience. (More than 1,000,000 in print)Dealing with the basics of the Christian life, this simple, informal book offers counsel from both the biblical text and human expe... More

This fascinating, new study is the first in-depth examination of the U.S. Civil War Centennial of the 1960's. Cook uses extensive research from U.S. federal, state, and university archives to recount the planning, organization, and ultimate failure of the Centennial festivities. He reveals how this ... More

My bent for poetry started many years ago and has persisted ever since. I find it interesting to write about the little things as well as the more important things that Marines in the field deal with every day. My poetry ranges from the ridiculous to the sublime, and encompasses the feelings of mank... More

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 contro... More

The turbulent middle decades of the nineteenth century constituted the critical period in American nation building. "Civil War America" shows that the eraAs combination of civil war and economic growth laid the foundation for the United StatesA emergence as a Great Power in the early twentieth centu... More

Just over 100 years ago, a small engineering concern in Vauxhall, South London, made its first motor car. Named after the place it was built, the Vauxhall was a revelation. Vauxhall was purchased in the 1920s by General Motors and its most famous models include its Edwardian Prince Henry, the PA Cre... More

The last prehistoric cultures to inhabit the Middle Ohio Valley (ca. A.D. 1000-1650) are referred to as Fort Ancient societies, which exhibited a wide variety of Mississippian period characteristics. What is less well known and little understood are the social processes by which Mississippian charac... More