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

Authors:William Brooks, Bill Brooks,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: series, books, briefcase, techniques, sales
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2004-02-20
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0071430016
ISBN-13: 9780071430012

Sales Techniques is an insightful and practical compilation of proven techniques and modern tools, designed to help both neophyte and seasoned sales professionals work with customers and successfully close the deal. From selling solutions instead of products to finding, communicating with, and even closing customers on the Internet, this latest addition to the popular Briefcase Books series will show salespeople how to organize their sales efforts, work successfully with today’s more demanding customer base, efficiently and effectively close a sale, consistently follow up after the sa

Authors:Jacqueline Brooks, Martin Brooks,
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: classrooms, constructivist, case, understanding, search
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2001-01-08
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0130606626
ISBN-13: 9780130606624

This text builds a case for the development of classrooms where students construct deep understandings of important concepts. The book presents new images for educational settings: student engagement, interaction, reflection, and construction.

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:Jacqueline Grennon Brooks, Martin G. Brooks,
Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
Keywords: classrooms, constructivist, case, understanding, search
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 1999-07-25
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0871203588
ISBN-13: 9780871203588

The activities that transpire within the classroom either help or hinder students’ learning. Any meaningful discussion of educational renewal, therefore, must focus explicitly and directly on the classroom, and on the teaching and learning that occur within it. This book presents a case for the development of classrooms in which students are encouraged to construct deep understandings of important concepts. Jacqueline Grennon Brooks and Martin Brooks present a new set of images for educational settings, images that emerge from student engagement, interaction, reflec

Authors:Brooks, Mary Hays, Marilyn Brooks, Marilyn L.,
Publisher: Broadview Press
Keywords: literary, texts, broadview, courtney, emma, memoirs
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2000-01-25
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1551111551
ISBN-13: 9781551111551

In November of 1795, after William Godwin requested a sketch of Mary Hays life, she arrived at the idea of Memoirs of Emma Courtney. Godwin followed up his request with a "hint" that a fictional exploration of the painful experience she had undergone in her relationship with William Frend might help her to come to terms with it. It was to be an "instructive rather that self indulgent" work. The resulting novel is one of the most interesting and important explorations of gender-related issues of the time. Emma is exposed to a series of situations -- motherlessness, orphanhood, poverty, depe