Authors:Leta E. Miller, Frederic Lieberman,
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: music, american, life, wayfarer, musical, world, lou, harrison, composing
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-04-21
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0252071883
ISBN-13: 9780252071881

Since its original publication, Composing a World by Leta E. Miller and Fredric Lieberman has become the definitive work on the prolific California composer Lou Harrison, often cited as one of America’s most original and influential figures. Composing a World presents a compelling and deeply human portrait of an exceptionally beloved pioneer in American music. This paperback edition is an updated version of the highly acclaimed Lou Harrison: Composing a World. The product of extensive research, as well as seventy-five interviews with the composer and those associated with him over hal

Authors:Frederic Adam, Frederic Adam, Patrick Humphreys,
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Keywords: decision, technologies, support, making, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 1064
Published: 2008-04-22
List price: $565.00
ISBN-10: 1599048434
ISBN-13: 9781599048437

As effective organizational decision making is a major factor in a companys success, a coherent, comprehensive account of current available research on the core concepts of the decision support agenda, is in high demand by academicians and professionals alike. The Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies presents a critical mass of research on the most up-to-date research on human and computer support of managerial decision making, including discussion on support of operational, tactical, and strategic decisions, human vs. computer system support structure, individual

Authors:Frederic M. Lord, Frederic M. Lord, Melvin R Novick,
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Keywords: scores, test, mental, theories, statistical
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2008-04-18
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1593119348
ISBN-13: 9781593119348

This is a reprint of the orginal book released in 1968. Our primary goal in this book is to sharpen the skill, sophistication, and in- tuition of the reader in the interpretation of mental test data, and in the construction and use of mental tests both as instruments of psychological theory and as tools in the practical problems of selection, evaluation, and guidance. We seek to do this by exposing the reader to some psychologically meaningful statistical theories of mental test scores. Although this book is organized in terms of test-score theories and models, the practical applications and l

Author: N. Lieberman
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: control, plant, process, troubleshooting
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2008-12-10
List price: $78.95
ISBN-10: 0470425148
ISBN-13: 9780470425145

The book focuses on process control in the petroleum and refinery industries, with an emphasis on problem solving. The author explores various real life examples and relays the lessons learned from his career in this area. He explains many new yet straightforward concepts without the use of complex mathematics. This handy go-to emphasizes single and well-established process engineering principles that will help working engineers and operators switch manual control loops to automatic control.

Author: Lieberman
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Keywords: last
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1402200579
ISBN-13: 9781402200571

Robert Lieberman, the bestselling author of Baby, as well as six other novels, has been called a "talented storyteller" by Kirkus Reviews. Now, Robert joins Sourcebooks Landmark with his stunning new novel, The Last Boy.A spiritual thriller, this utterly compelling novel tells the story of Danny Driscoll, a huggable, enchanting five-year-old boy who one day disappears from his nursery school in Ithaca, New York. Molly, his distraught single mother, begins the feverish search for her missing son. She is aided by Lou Tripoli, a divorced, street-wise cop, with whom she begins to fall in love. As

Author: Syd Lieberman
Publisher: August House
Keywords: storytelling, american, alleys, streets
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1997-04-25
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0874834244
ISBN-13: 9780874834246

Syd Lieberman grew up in Albany Park, a Jewish neighborhood on Chicago’s northwest side. During his childhood, Eastern European immigrants bet with Feldman, the Jewish handicapper from the Sun-Times. Teenagers descended like locusts on the old Terminal Theater on Friday nights. Families frequented Riverview, then the world’s largest amusement park. And his father, Shmulky, played cards at night in the neighborhood cigar store, until dawn or until he was broke, whichever came first.

Author: Hal Lieberman
Publisher: Boson Books
Keywords: straw, throne
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 1886420181
ISBN-13: 9781886420182

Throne of Straw, a play of the Holocaust, has been performed in Los Angeles at UCLA’s MacGowan Hall, the Odyssey Theater, and the Los Angeles Actors Theatre; in New York City at the St. Clements; in Cleveland at the Jewish Community Center; and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Hal Lieberman served as Dramatist-in-Residence. France Culture commissioned a translation that was broadcast nationally. It was published in paper format by the University of Wisconsin Press in The Theatre of the Holocaust (1982).