Reasonable rates On-time delivery Familiarity with style guidelines Demonstration of proven skills
Mary Brooks
Indexing and Editorial Services
With more than 20 years of professional experience as an editor, indexer, writer, and proofreader, Mary Brooks offers:
Reasonable rates
On-time delivery
Familiarity with style guidelines
Demonstration of proven skills
Areas of interest and expertise
U.S. history, government, and politics
Texas history
Cultural and physical geography
Environmental studies
Fine arts and crafts
Textbooks
Teachers' guides and other educational materials
Rates
Rates are based on the individual project and on a client's needs. For back-of-the-book indexes, fees are calculated on a flat-fee basis, by the hour, or per indexable page. Please call or e-mail to discuss your project. All quotes are provided in writing.
Professional credentials
USDA Basic Indexing Course
Member, American Society for Indexing
Bachelor's Degree, Journalism, University of Missouri
Member, ASI South-Central Chapter
Recent indexes
University Press of Kansas
Hitler's Generals on Trial: The Last War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg (Valerie Geneviève Hébert)
Roadside Kansas: A Traveler's Guide to its Geology and Landmarks, 2nd Edition, Revised and Updated (Rex C. Buchanan and James R. McCauley)
One Man Out: Curt Flood versus Baseball (Robert M. Goldman)
From the Landmark Law Cases & American Society series
Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906 (Barbara Berglund)
Paving the Way: New York Road Building and the American State, 1880-1956 (Michael R. Fein)
Winner, New York State Archives Annual Award for Excellence in Research
Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858 (Craig Miner)
A 2009 Kansas Notable Book
Before Earth Day: The Origins of Environmental Law, 1945-1970 (Karl Brooks)
Catlin's Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature (John Hausdoerffer)
Reopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West (Brian Q. Cannon)
Upton's Regulars: The 121st New York Infantry in the Civil War (Salvatore G. Cilella, Jr.)
Punitive War: Confederate Guerrillas and Union Reprisals (Clay Mountcastle)
Targeting the Third Reich: Air Intelligence and the Allied Bombing Campaigns (Robert S. Ehlers, Jr.)
A Nation of Laws: An Introduction to American Legal History (Peter Charles Hoffer)
Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America (David M. Oshinsky)
From the Landmark Law Cases & American Society series
Kansas Geology: An Introduction to Landscapes, Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils, 2nd Edition, Revised and Updated (Edited by Rex Buchanan)
The President's Words: Speeches and Speechwriting in the Modern White House (Michael Nelson and Russell L. Riley, editors)
Bess Wallace Truman: Harry's White House "Boss" (Sara L. Sale)
Understanding the Founding: The Crucial Questions, 2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded (Alan Gibson)
Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady (Maurine H. Beasley)
University of Washington Press
Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand
(Justin Thomas McDaniel)
Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects (Laurie Sears)
Heroes, Hacks, and Fools: Memoirs from the Political Inside (Ted Van Dyk)
Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy (Karl Brooks)
From the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Book series
Oxford University Press
The Lives of David Brainerd: The Making of an American Evangelical Icon (John Grigg)
Conceiving the Old Regime: Pronatalism and the Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern France (Leslie Tuttle)
Princeton University Press
Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (Shane Hamilton)
University of Nebraska Press
Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715 (Paul Kelton)
University of Rochester Press
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora:
Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique (Elizabeth MacGonagle)
White Chief, Black Lords: Shepstone and the Colonial State in Natal, South Africa, 1845-1878 (Thomas V. McClendon)
Truman State University Press
Harry S. Truman, the State of Israel, and the Quest for Peace in the Middle East
Alcohol, Violence, and Disorder in Traditional Europe (A. Lynn Martin)
Immigration and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman (Roger Daniels, editor)
Feminist Frontiers: Women Who Shaped the Midwest (Yvonne J. Johnson, editor)
A Passion for History: Natalie Zemon Davis Conversations with Denis Crouzet (Michael Wolfe, editor)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Applied Portfolio Management: How University of Kansas Students Generate Alpha to Beat the Street
(Catherine Shenoy; Kent C. McCarthy)
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Flamenco: Conflicting Histories of the Dance (Michelle Heffner Hayes)
Selected editing projects
Microsoft Corporation
Encarta 96 World Atlas
Encarta 97 World Atlas
Encarta '95 Multimedia Encyclopedia
Automap Road Atlas: Trip Planning and Mapping Made Easy
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Holt American Government, United States History 8th-Grade Multimedia Program
The American Nation
World Geography Today
The World Today Gazetteer for World Geography Today
World Geography Today, Annotated Teacher's Edition
American Civics
Texas, Our Texas, Annotated Teacher's Edition
World History
We the People
Our Land, Our Time: A History of the United States, Annotated Teacher's Edition
Garraty's The Story of America: Beginnings to 1914
Garraty's The Story of America, Teacher's Resource Organizer
Art in America: History Transparencies
Teacher's Guide to Accompany Garraty's The Story of America
Hendrick-Long Publishing
Blue Northers to Sea Breezes: Texas Weather and Climate
The San Antonio Missions: A Study of Their History and Development with Accompanying Activities
Crossword Puzzles for Texas: The Land and Its People
Photo: National Park Service, Wind Cave National Park
Updated: 7 June 2010