Authors:Brooks D. Simpson, Brooks Simpson,
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: adversity, over, triumph, grant, ulysses
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2000-02-21
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0395659949
ISBN-13: 9780395659946

Washington, Lincoln, Grant--these were once the triumvirate of American nationalism. But, like his tomb on the Hudson, Grant’s reputation has fallen into disrepair. The image many Americans hold of him is a caricature: someone "uniquely stupid," an insensitive butcher as a general, an incompetent mediocrity as president, and a drunk. Several efforts to counter this stereotype have often gone too far in the other direction, resulting in an equally distorted laudatory portrait of near-perfection. In reading the original sources, Brooks D. Simpson became convinced that Grant was neither a

Author: Brooks D. Simpson
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Keywords: presidents, reconstruction
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2009-09-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0700616888
ISBN-13: 9780700616886

During and after the Civil War, four presidents faced the challenge of reuniting the nation and of providing justice for black Americans--and of achieving a balance between those goals. This first book to collectively examine the Reconstruction policies of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes reveals how they confronted and responded to the complex issues presented during that contested era in American politics. Brooks Simpson examines the policies of each administration in depth and evaluates them in terms of their political, social, and institutional co

Authors:Mark Mysnyk, Barry Davis, Brooks Simpson,
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Keywords: moves, wrestling, winning
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1994-03-30
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0873224825
ISBN-13: 9780873224826

With more than 700 detailed photographs illustrating moves and countermoves, this book shows how to handle any opponent in virtually any situation. Winning Wrestling Moves provides high school and college wrestlers and their coaches with all the fundamentals and latest refinements in wrestling techniques. Never before have so many wrestling moves been described and illustrated in one volume. Three former All-Americans from the University of Iowa--Mark Mysnyk, Barry Davis, and Brooks Simpson--team up to share the techniques that made them champions: Proper stance, movement, penetration, and

Authors:George Gaylord Simpson, Joan Simpson Burns,
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: novel, magruder, sam, dechronization
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1997-04-15
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 031215514X
ISBN-13: 9780312155148

This lost novella by the century’s most renowned paleontologist has been called the greatest time-travel story in more than one hundred years.Vanishing from Earth on February 30, 2162, while working on a problem of quantum theory, research chronologist Sam Magruder is thrown back 80 million years in time. Endowed with the intelligence of a twenty-second-century man, Magruder struggles to survive, feeding on scrambled turtle eggs and diligently recording his observations on a stone-slab diary, even as menacing tyrannosaurus try to gnaw off his limbs.Filled with magnificent descriptions of

Authors:Charles Brooks, Ashok Choudhury, Charlie R. Brooks, A
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: materials, engineering, analysis, failure
Number of Pages: 700
Published: 2001-12-15
List price: $137.00
ISBN-10: 0071357580
ISBN-13: 9780071357586

Solve, correct, and avoid critical material failure problems Expertly analyze failures in common materials with Failure Analysis of Engineering Materials. This investigatory/analytical tool by Charles R. Brooks and Ashok Choudhury is a time-saving, one-stop reference for engineers. A soundly written introduction to principals and practices, it’s invaluable for failure inquiries involving metals, ceramics, plastics, composites, and electronic materials. You get: * Practical, hands-on help with selecting and justifying analytic methods * Numerous case studies that illustrate the us

Authors:Lonnie Brooks, Cub Koda, Wayne Baker Brooks,
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Keywords: german, dummies, fur, blues
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2008-09-03
List price: $13.11
ISBN-10: 352770471X
ISBN-13: 9783527704712

Authors:Lonnie Brooks, Cub Koda, Wayne Baker Brooks,
Publisher: For Dummies
Keywords: dummies, blues
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1998-08-13
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0764550802
ISBN-13: 9780764550805

Get your mojo working as you take a musical trip from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago’s gritty South Side and points beyond with Blues For Dummies, an insightful, toe-tappin’, music lovers’ guide to the blues. Popular blues guitarist Lonnie Brooks serves as your tour guide through the life and times of the blues, from the acoustic mystique of Robert Johnson and Son House to the urban blues men and women of today: John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray, B.B. King, Etta James, Koko Taylor, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and, of course, Brooks himself. Blues For Dummies travels from sad to g