Authors:Janet W. Lerner, Barbara Lowenthal, Rosemary W. Egan
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Keywords: children, disabilities, risk, special, preschool, needs
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-09-15
List price: $101.33
ISBN-10: 0205358799
ISBN-13: 9780205358793

Preschool Children with Special Needs explores ways of providing preschool children with special needs and their families with a learning environment that will help them develop and learn. The new edition has up-to-date and expanded coverage of issues in early childhood general and special education. The text continues to emphasize the needs of preschoolers age three to six and provides essential information to teachers and others who work with young children in all settings. Current models of curricula, which incorporate new features from research and practical experiences with children who h

Authors:George P. Marsh, David Lowenthal, David Lowenthal,
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: classic, environmental, weyerhaeuser, nature, man
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2003-05
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0295983167
ISBN-13: 9780295983165

In Man and Nature, first published in 1864, polymath scholar and diplomat George Perkins Marsh challenged the general belief that human impact on nature was generally benign or negligible and charged that ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean had brought about their own collapse by their abuse of the environment. By deforesting their hillsides and eroding their soils, they had destroyed the natural fertility that sustained their well-being. Marsh offered his compatriots in the United States a stern warning that the young American republic might repeat these errors of the ancient world if

Author: Jeffrey N. Lowenthal
Publisher: ASQ Quality Press
Keywords: pocket, guide, management, project, sigma, six
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0873895193
ISBN-13: 9780873895194

Six Sigma Project Management: A Pocket Guide provides a step-by-step approach to implementing a Six Sigma project, that can be easily applied within any type of organization. Author Jeffrey Lowenthal has written this easy to use, pocket-sized guidebook, based upon almost two years of research examining what works best within the Six-Sigma environment. Based on the author’s own experiences as a Master Blackbelt, research and case studies, Six Sigma Project Management: A Pocket Guide has taken the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve & Control) approach and outlined it within a Six-St

Author: Michael Lowenthal
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: novel, embrace
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0452279755
ISBN-13: 9780452279759

The Same Embrace tells the powerful story of two young men struggling against a heritage of intolerance and silence. Twins Jacob and Jonathan were inseparable while growing up in their second-generation-American Jewish family. As adults, though, they are almost hopelessly estranged--Jacob is a gay activist in Boston, while Jonathan lives the strict, disciplined life of an Orthodox student at a yeshiva in Jerusalem. In the shadow of a tragedy, Jacob travels to Israel in the hopes of finding common ground with his brother. But his twin’s new assurance and faith force Jacob to reexamine h

Author: Michael Lowenthal
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: girl, charity
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-01-03
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0618546294
ISBN-13: 9780618546299

Charity Girl examines a dark period in our history, when fear and patriotic fervor led to devastating consequences. During World War I, the U.S. government waged a moral and medical campaign, incarcerating and quarantining fifteen thousand young women who were found to have venereal disease.Frieda Mintz is a seventeen-year-old Jewish bundle wrapper at Jordan Marsh in Boston; she struck out on her own in the wake of her mother’s determination to marry her off to a wealthy man twice her age. Then she spends one impuslive night with "a mensch, a U.S. Army private, ready to brave the trenche

Author: Rita Lowenthal
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Keywords: addiction, heroin, son, ticket, way, one
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0825305497
ISBN-13: 9780825305498

"There is nothing you can do, Mom; you can’t compete with heroin." Josh Lowenthal to his mother, Rita; from One-Way Ticket: Our Son’s Addiction to Heroin In 1970, at age 13, Josh Lowenthal used heroin for the first time and began an addiction that would be with him until he took his own life at age 38. In One-Way Ticket, his mother Rita Lowenthal retraces Josh’s life from its typical, comfortable beginnings to the fragmented 25 years lost to addiction, rehab, and jail. She pieces together the painful episodes and spirals of a life-long heroin dependency: flights from variou

Author: Mark M. Lowenthal
Publisher: CQ Press
Keywords: policy, secrets, intelligence
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2008-10-21
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 0872896005
ISBN-13: 9780872896000

Intelligence veteran Mark M. Lowenthal details how the intelligence community’s history, structure, procedures, and functions affect policy decisions. With his friendly prose, he demystifies a complicated and complex process. Rich with examples and anecdotes, Intelligence also includes bolded key terms, an acronym list, suggested readings and websites, and a list of major intelligence reviews or proposals. This new, fully-updated fourth edition highlights many crucial recent developments in reforms, ethics, and transnational issues, including: -the actual implementation of the Director o