Lisa R Cooper

Making Art Together: How Collaborative Art-Making Can Transform Kids, Classrooms, and Communities

Artist Mark Cooper aims to change the way you think about making art with kids.Working with schools around the country, Cooper has brought together scores of teachers and hundreds of children to make remarkable collaborative art that has enlivened classrooms and public spaces and been displayed in t...

Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)

Lisa H. Cooper offers new insight into the relationship of material practice and literary production in the Middle Ages by exploring the representation of craft labor in England from c.1000-1483. She examines genres as diverse as the school-text, comic poem, spiritual allegory, and mirror for prince...

Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates

Studying archaeological evidence from sites covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, Lisa Cooper's excellent monograph explores the growth and development of human settlement in the Euphrates River Valley of Northern Syria during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages from circa 2...

A Swedenborg Sampler: Selections from Heaven and Hell, Divine Love and Wisdom, Divine Providence, True Christianity, and Secrets of Heaven

Swedish scientist and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg wrote volumes upon volumes based on the understanding he gained through visits to the spiritual world and from conversations with its inhabitants. For new readers of Swedenborg, knowing where to start and what to read can present an insurmountable ...

Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children

Remember how simple school lunches used to be? You'd have something from every major food group, run around the playground for a while, and you looked and felt fine. But today it's not so simple. Schools are actually feeding the American crisis of childhood obesity and malnutrition. Most cafeterias ...

A Forgotten Land: Growing Up in the Jewish Pale, Based on the Recollections of Pearl Unikow Cooper

A Forgotten Land is the story of one Jewish family's lives and experiences in the Russian Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, set within the wider context of pogroms, World War I, the Russian Revolution and Civil War.  It weaves together personal tragedy and a fascinating bu...

Dream of Naples

The Happy Ward

The Happy Ward

& Calling It Home

Debates With Devils: What Swedenborg Heard in Hell

A Disclosure of Secrets of Heaven Contained in Sacred Scripture, Or, The Word of the Lord: Here First Those in Genesis, Together with Amazing Things Seen in the World of Spirits and in the Heaven of A

Secrets of Heaven: Here First Those in Genesis, Together With Amazing Things Seen in the World of Spirits And in the Heaven of Angels

Lisa Cooper

Lisa A. Cooper (born 1963) is a public health physician, and professor at Johns Hopkins. She graduated from Emory University with a B.A. and from the...