Bøker av Scott Cook

This frank, entertaining memoir describes the insular and secretive military subculture of men and women who lived with the sobering burden of potentially unleashing global devastation, and how an easy-going gym coach ended up in an organisation whose unofficial motto was ""To err is human; to forgive is not Strategic Air Command policy."

In this book noted economic anthropologist Scott Cook draws on many decades of fieldwork in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Tamaulipas to take on the challenge of crafting an academic memoir designed to provide insights into the role of commodities in his own life and times and especially in his anthropological career.

Draws on thirty-five years of fieldwork (1965-1990) in the region to present a masterful ethnographic historical account of how nine communities in the Oaxaca Valley have striven to maintain land, livelihood, and civility in the face of transformational and cumulative change across five centuries.

A study of the regional peasant marketing system in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico.

A detailed and comprehensive analysis of small-scale peasant and artisan enterprise in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico.

Heavenly Harvest is designed to be a faith based learning franchise that incorporates life tools from scripture with language arts, health, and wellness. By design, it links the "fruits" of the Spirit with healthy physical and spiritual growth through recognition, consumption, and practice. Because of engaging characters and story lines, children will enjoy reading and writing all while being introduced to the importance of reading labels on packaged food items, and learning about what they eat. Each character in Heavenly Harvest represents a Godly character trait with a corresponding verse from the Bible, a letter, and a number. Parents will have several on-line learning tools available to them such as supplemental web based content accessible from any tablet or mobile device equipped with a QR code reader. Parents will be able to access printable coloring sheets, and writing practice worksheets to augment what students get in their public school or their home school classroom.