Albert Brooks Books

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The selected readings provide a useful reference to classic public administration literature. The writings are presented in a general chronological order covering topics important to the various time periods. The book could be improved with an updated edition of current literature (stops around the Carter presidency.) An index would be helpful. Overall, a worthwhile addition to one's political science library. I refer to it often.

FULL MARKS GOES TO SHAFRITZ AND HYDE FOR THIS EXCLUSIVE WORK WHILE EVEN FINDING A LITERATURE ABOUT PUBLIC ADMN. IS GETTING DIFFICULT. THANKS TO BOTH!

This is as a nice reference for the blues guitarist. It's nice to have so many new ideas in one place. The only downside (more so for the beginner), is most of the turnarounds are in the key of C which means you'll need to transcribe them to different keys. This is not a bad thing as it is helps develop a better knowledge of how the blues scales are put together. It is a good investment as it is a reference and a learning tool.

(101 Razor-Sharp Blues Guitar Fill-In Licks)


Leading Book of Its Type

This is undoubtedly the leading book of its type on the market today. 101 authentic urban blues guitar fill-ins in the Chicago blues style, each accurately transcribed in notation and tablature. Each lick is recorded note-for-note on the companion CD and accompanied by a professional blues band (complete with singer Charles Atkins), and wonderfully engineered by Fred Chester, a well-known engineer in the Southeast who has recorded albums for jazz piano great Marcus Roberts and persons of similar caliber.

As a professional music teacher of many years, I have found Larry McCabe's music instruction books to be of consistently high quality, popular with students, focused and effective in accomplishing the particular objective.

Small wonder. Larry has one of the most reputable names in the music publishing industry. His resume lists over eighty published books for Mel Bay, Centerstream, and other big names in the industry. Two of his books were written for none other than Roy Clark. And he was the guitar writer for Living Blues Magazine for three years, and a member of the W.C. Nominating Committee for many years. This is a teacher who knows how to play and teach the blues.

The author, Larry McCabe, is a well-known and respected author of many instruction books and he has a strong background in the blues. I recall that in the 1990s Larry authored a popular blues guitar column for Living Blues Magazine.

Against the backdrop of a live band complete with singer Charles Atkins, each fill-in lick is played exactly as you would play it on stage or in a jam session. The licks are tasteful and performed in the authentic Chicago style-the licks are the real thing, played by a guitarist who knows how to play the blues and write blues instruction.

I would recommend this book to an early intermediate guitarist whose ambition is to play in the urban blues style. The incredible thing about this set is that the user is actually sitting in with a live blues band that includes a singer.

In the rush to play solos, fill-in are sometimes overlooked. This book is unique and unlike any other book on electric blues guitar. And in fact, Red Dog Music Books entire series of 101 Razor-Sharp Blues Books are enthusiastically recommended to all electric guitar teachers who have students who want to learn to play the blues.

I have used many general chemistry text books as an undergrad, grad student, as a technician and as an educator. This edition of this text is by far the best I've come across. The 7th and 8th editions are terrible (not the exact same title). The newer editions are loaded down with information that's supposed to make chemistry easier. Constant attempts to make things easier actually make them harder. I think that trend also undermines students' independence in learning.

Specifics:
1. VISUAL CLARITY: There are only a few example questions per topic placed within the chapter, and the way they appear in the text is clear. It is easy to flip back through a chapter and find topics. Of course, end-of-chapter examples are referenced in example questions.

2. ACID/BASE CHEMISTRY. For anyone wanting to use this for teaching or tutoring...

--This edition covers the topics in this order: non-buffered, buffered, hydrolysis of salts, titrations. Many books (including, I believe, latter editions of this text) cover acidic and basic salts first, possibly titration next, before buffers. Maybe it's because I learned it differently that I think that's weird. But I include this here in case YOU think that's weird.

-- The one thing I don't like about this book is that "ICE" tables are explained, but different forms of the table should be used for non-buffered solutions, buffered solutions, buffering action (titration), and hydrolysis of salts. There is no emphasis on that, and it confuses students because the hardest thing seems to be identifying which table to set up. No explanation for why molarity is used in most ICE tables, but moles are used in titrations. No explanation is given why balancing reactions the usual way is unnecessary or even ill-advised in most problems. For example, if it's a common ion on the right, why isn't the coefficient a 2? Nevertheless, I find acid/base to be MUCH clearer in this book than in others.

4. QUANTUM CHEMISTRY: This book is correct and adequately technical but not made ridiculously abstract. It seems many authors feel it is disrespectful to the long dead geezers who discovered this stuff (I forget their names) to make this topic any less than impossible to understand. Students are angry, not happy, when they realize quantum numbers are actually very easy to understand. Invariably, I get a dubious silence followed by, "That's it?!"

FOR STUDENTS: I have convinced a few students to get this text because it can be bought for close to nothing. They told me they were glad they bought it. It isn't out of date. The foundations of chemistry don't change very quickly, if you know what I mean. It's been a long time since the universe was different. Finally, it's hard to find a picture of this book on sites that sell it ("no image available"). Some sellers don't provide very clear information, and Whitten has co-authoered a few other books so it would be easy to get the wrong one. This one has a dark cover with an orange shower of sparks. It's the 4th edition.

This is the most horrible chemistry book, I have ever seen. There are so many mistakes, there are not enough examples with clear explanations, and it looks as if the authors spent about 10 minutes trying to organize this. I have used other chemistry books, and not to say that they are perfect, but this book really is horrible. Try and spend a couple dollars doing research on how to organize. When you introduce a topic in chapter 4, do not say it will be explained in chapter 11. Explain all topics the first time you mention them!

This is truly the best g. chem. book I've seen, out of about 6 or 7. It's not too complex, but not too simple either. For pre-med students a must -- it helped me score a 14 in the physical section of the MCAT

I have a B.S. in Chemistry and tutor it at our local junior college where this book is the one being used for the course. I have never found a general chem book good enough to keep until now. The text and examples are very clear and easy to follow and understand. The pictures and sections on chemistry in the real world are enlightening. I was so impressed with this book that I actually bought it to keep for my own library, and I didn't need to do that because I was required to have it! The only thing I would like to see them improve on the next edition is the index. This is done as a combination glossary/index and there are many things that I have tried to find in the index that are not listed. So get a better indexer on the next edition!

Some of the employment horror stories are funny but several chapters were quite honestly, vulgar. This book is loaded with graphic, sexual content and strong language. When reading the chapters I felt that some of the supposed "real-life experiences" were exaggerated or even fabricated. I have heard better "on-the-job-horror-stories" from my co-workers than what I read in this book.

This is a very cool collection of stories, comics, and photographs depict, in gory true-life detail, examples of bad jobs. Included is the tale of a phone sex operator who routinely brings men to orgasm while reading Ms Magazine, the stripper who performs her first-and last-routine to Aretha Franklin's "R-E-S-P-E-C-T", and the factory worker who knows firsthand what goes into "Crushed Party Ice." Truth is alternately more irritating and stranger that fiction as with the story of the applicant whose interviewers end up breathing real hard through their noses, until she points out that half of their interview questions are illegal or an environmental canvasser who turns up in the local paper's "Crimewatch" column - and considers turning himself in for the reward money. By turns beautiful, surreal, hilarious, and awful, BAD JOBS brings together a plurality to the aesthetic responses to each author's 'true stories' just as some forms of badness require different remedies. The stories in this collection mix subversive laughter at absurdity with the sadness, frustrations and failed hopes that makeup many workplace experience. Perhaps best of all Bad Jobs is a vital and welcomed new model for complaint and renewal in storytelling from the rare perspective of the bottom up.

I wanted to like this book. I mean, I _really_ wanted to like this book. The story had so much promise: The true story of his father's departure from his beloved Lebanon to the new and exciting promised land of America. However, the book suffers from poor writing style. It felt awkward and clunky to read. When things weren't repetitive they were confusing.

This book is great as a family history, but I suspect the only people really reading it are the author's family.

Things to make this book better: 1) A skilled editor; 2) a _complete_ rewrite; and 3) an earlier ending.

Really, the story is so captivating one could almost see it as a movie, provided the author was not permitted to touch the script.

This book doesn't explain s***! It's the worse math book out there. To many theorems and not to many problems. Look for another ODE & Linear Algebra book if you can.

I used this for a introductory differential equations course. All the reviewers are dead on. This book will make you hate math with a passion such as you have never known.

This book is excellent. I'm shocked at the low ratings, BUT I think I can explain why. This is one of the best introductory books out there. I used it in my first class as an engineering student before I switched over to a mathematics major. Classes for math majors don't normally use this book because it is too elementary. But for non-math majors (engineering, chemistry, physics, ...) this is the first book of choice. Unfortunately, these majors are also full of people in the early years who won't like differential equations. Therefore, this book gets a lot of negative attention from disenchanted students. I love differential equations, but many people who see themselves as good in math get an unexpected bad grade in this class--they can't accept that and instead fault the book or the teacher. I admit, differential equations seemed to me at first to have too much clever guessing, no single structured methodology with which to apply to every differential equation, and most annoying is that most differential equations can't be solved in closed form anyway. This situation is not the fault of the book. Even today there are folks getting PhD's by working on unsolved differential equations.

For those who want more help, I believe in having lots of practice problems. So, in addition to this book, get the "Schaum's Outline of Differential Equations" by Bronson (ISBN: 0070080194) for slightly more than $10 (cheap). Also, I believe in reading more than one source simultaneously, so get "Ordinary Differential Equations" by Tenenbaum and Pollard (ISBN: 0486649407) (Also cheap), and read it along with Rabenstein's book. Tenenbaum's book might be just as good or better as Rabenstein's book, so it might be wise for the instructor to use Tenenbaum's book instead of Rabenstein's book and help the student save some money. But I suspect Rabenstein's book is still more elementary in treatment.

I had to buy it for an engineering math course. It is truly aweful. It has proof after proof and theorem after theorem with very few examples. Very abstract explanations. I do not know if anyone could learn anything from this book except to buy a different book if you really want to learn linear algebra. I just purchased a different Linear algebra book so I can understand the material. Take the advice of someone who has used the text and do your self a favor. Do not buy this book not even as a joke.

I think the other reviewers all looked at this book from the perspective of an engineering major who wasn't interested in learning the topics but just wanted to get through a required course without having to put in the effort to understand the material. This book does an excellent job of tying together the two topics at hand. Yes, like any good math book, there are lots of proofs. Of course, I'm reading this from the perspective of a graduate student in geochemistry with a bachelors degree in math from several years ago. It's a great reference/review book for me. So, I'd just like to counter the other reviewers by saying if you're looking for a book with a good concise theory based introduction to Differential Equations and Linear Algebra, this is the best one I've seen.
One final note -- I think this web form is screwy, I can't correct the repeated sentence above...

I bought the book titled General Chemistry 7th ed by whitten(sp?)peck and stanley yet I was shipped the study guide to text instead>make sure you use the isbn(cant go wrong with that).