D Brooks: 39 books
Boomers
The Cold-War Generation Grows Up
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
The unexpected surge in the birthrate between 1946 and 1964 transformed American society. A nation that had projected a population peaking at 150 million, and feared a renewal of the Great Depression in the wake of World War II, found itself dealing with a booming economy and 70 million children straining...
The Book of Nicknames
Some Are Simple and Some Unusual but They Are All Unique
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Nicknames can be used to describe the character of an individual, the look of an individual, or a quick way of shortening a persons name. Some nicknames are given by others, while some nicknames are derived by the individual. Whatever the case, the nickname is unique to that person. Although some...
by Edward M. Dunbar, D. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
DDDDDDDDDDDD Effective management logically follows accurate diagnosis. Such logic often is difficult to apply in practice. Absolute diagnostic accuracy may not be possible, particularly in the field of primary care, when management has to be on analysis of symptoms and on knowledge of the individual...
The Millipede Effect
My Quest to Understand and Help the Homeless, Stranded and Down and Out
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Government, civic organizations, and religion (the church) all play a major part in finding ways to help the plight of the homeless. This is displayed on a daily basis by so many who are constantly doing their part through service, financial giving, and voluntary work. However, the challenge still...
by John Fry, D. Brooks, McColl
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Administering the National Health Service (NHS) is asking to navigate without reliable and sufficient information. It is amazing how a national service costing more than £15,OOOM (1984) and employing more than 1 million has existed since 1948. It is likely that with better appropriate data there...
by Stratton D. (Stratton Duluth) Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Brooks's Readers, Third Year. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Stratton...
Ulysses S. Grant
Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Many modern historians have painted Ulysses S. Grant as a butcher, a drunk, and a failure as president. Others have argued the exact opposite and portray him with saintlike levels of ethic and intellect. In Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity 1822–1865, historian Brooks D. Simpson takes neither...
by D H Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2012
Adventure, romance and intrigue meet in a titanic clash within the tale A Legacy Of The Pacific, a paean to Southern California and her golden shores. Ride on the back of a bottle-nosed dolphin at breakneck speed through the waves of the blue Pacific. Race against giant seahorses and battle beside...
by D.E. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Sitting on the rooftop widow’s peak in the wee hours of the morning, Mike Snow was three beers into his fight against insomnia when he spots a man walk up out of the water and take in the landscape of predawn Charleston South Carolina. Before Mike can fully register what he saw, he watches the man...
Let Us Have Peace
Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Historians have traditionally drawn distinctions between Ulysses S. Grant's military and political careers. In Let Us Have Peace, Brooks Simpson questions such distinctions and offers a new understanding of this often enigmatic leader. He argues that during the 1860s Grant was both soldier and politician,...
Southern Journeys
Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
The first collection of its kind to examine tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern history, culture, and economics.
Anyone who has seen Rock City, wandered the grounds of Graceland, hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, or watched the mermaids swim at Weeki Wachee knows...
Economic Evaluation in Education
Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their “return on investment” in social programs, and the general...
Restoring the Shining Waters
Superfund Success at Milltown, Montana
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
No sooner had the EPA established the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation’s toxic waste dumps and other abandoned hazardous waste sites, than a little Montana town found itself topping the new program’s National Priority List. Milltown, a place too small to warrant a listing in the...