Author: David Brooks
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: class, upper, new, paradise, bobos
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2001-03-06
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0684853787
ISBN-13: 9780684853789

Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Do you work for one of those visionary software companies where people come to work wearing hiking boots and glacier glasses, as if a wall of ice were about to come sliding through the parking lot? If so, you might be a Bobo. In his bestselling work of "comic sociology," David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today’s upper class -- those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to

Author: David R. Brooks
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: texts, computer, science, undergraduate, scientists, essentials, engineers, programming
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 1999-06-04
List price: $134.00
ISBN-10: 0387986324
ISBN-13: 9780387986326

Today’s scientist or engineer has many more computerized problem solving environments available than those of only a short time ago and so they are less dependent on mastering a scientific programming language such as FORTRAN. Many universities have made the switch to teaching the programming language C to science and engineering students, as it is still necessary in many fields to be able to produce one’s own programs. This text teaches the essentials of C programming, concentrating on what the reader needs to know to produce working stand-alone programs to solve typical scientifi

Author: David Brooks
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: tense, future, live, drive, paradise
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-05-25
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0743227387
ISBN-13: 9780743227384

The author of the acclaimed bestseller Bobos in Paradise, which hilariously described the upscale American culture, takes a witty look at how being American shapes us, and how America’s suburban civilization will shape the world’s future. Take a look at Americans in their natural habitat. You see suburban guys at Home Depot doing that special manly, waddling walk that American men do in the presence of large amounts of lumber; super-efficient ubermoms who chair school auctions, organize the PTA, and weigh less than their children; workaholic corporate types boarding airplanes whi

Author: David B. Brooks
Publisher: IDRC Books
Keywords: focus, management, level, local, water
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2002-06
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0889369968
ISBN-13: 9780889369962

Right now, more than 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Within the next 25 years, fully one-third of the world’s population will experience severe water scarcity. It is clear that disparities in the availability and supply of fresh water are truly a matter of life and death, and constitute one of the great governance imperatives of our time.This booklet summarizes the results of three decades of IDRC-supported research on water supply. It demonstrates that some of the most powerful responses to water scarcities have been mounted at the community or local level - in hou

Author: David Brooks
Publisher: Paidotribo Editorial
Keywords: spanish, trainer, personal, del, libro
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 2001-12-12
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 8480195517
ISBN-13: 9788480195515

¿Le gustaría conseguir la fórmula eficaz y rápida que mejore sus ejercicios y le ayude a alcanzar niveles superiores de fuerza muscular, condición cardiovascular y flexibilidad? ¿Le gustaría disponer de un plan nutricional especial para deportistas que pudiera seguir fácilmente y que se adaptara a su estilo de vida activo? Si desea conseguir un mejor rendimiento en las actividades deportivas o recreativas, sentirse y verse más fuerte, aumentar la fuerza, el volumen y el metabolismo de sus músculos, tener suficiente energía para aguantar todo el día,

Author: David Marshall Brooks
Publisher: NuVision Publications
Keywords: atheism, necessity
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2008-03-27
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 1595477241
ISBN-13: 9781595477248

Plain speaking is necessary in any discussion of religion, for if the freethinker attacks the religious dogmas with hesitation, the orthodox believer assumes that it is with regret that the freethinker would remove the crutch that supports the orthodox. And all religious beliefs are "crutches" hindering the free locomotive efforts of an advancing humanity. There are no problems related to human progress and happiness in this age which any theology can solve, and which the teachings of freethought cannot do better and without the aid of encumbrances.

Authors:Sam Brooks, David H. Carlson,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: relationships, vendor, library
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-01-09
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0789033526
ISBN-13: 9780789033529

A view of the mutual dependence between libraries and vendorsAs technology advances, libraries are forced to reach beyond their own resources to find effective ways to maintain accuracy and superior service levels. Vendors provide databases and integrated library systems that perform those functions for profit. Library/Vendor Relationships examines the increasing cooperation in which libraries find they must participate in, and vice versa, with the vendors that provide system infrastructure and software. Expert contributors provide insights from all sides of this unique collaboration, offering