Author: Lionel A. Galway
Publisher: Rand Publishing
Keywords: analysis, review, technical, report, risk, cost, probability, distribution, elicitation, subjective
Number of Pages: 36
Published: 2007-08-30
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0833040111
ISBN-13: 9780833040114

One approach to expressing the uncertainty in a cost estimate is probability distribution, and cost analysts have proposed getting such information from subjective probability distributions elicited from experts. This technical report offers a selective review of the literature of probability elicitation, both in the fields of psychology and statistics and in the cost risk field, and insights from senior people in the cost risk community.

Authors:Robert S. Tripp, Lionel A. Galway, John G. Drew, Timo
Publisher: Rand Publishing
Keywords: combat, support, postures, agile, new, expeditionary, aerospace, forces, supporting
Number of Pages: 39
Published: 2000-05-08
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0833028014
ISBN-13: 9780833028013

With the end of the Cold War, the United States has entered an entirely new security environment that has required the U.S. Air Force to stage a large number of deployments, carried out by a substantially smaller force than existed in the 1980s. To meet these challenges and to address resulting personnel turbulence, the Air Force has formulated the expeditionary Aerospace Force concept. Prototype analyses in this report suggest that with today’s support processes, ploicies, and technologies, deploying even a modest fighter-based combat force to a bare base will require several days of

Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: poems, selected, new
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-09-13
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0618154450
ISBN-13: 9780618154456

Read A New Selected Poems to catch Galway Kinnell’s myriad fine-tunings of poems decades old; read it for the pleasure of watching his early formalism blossom into long, joyous, almost Whitmanesque lines; but most of all, read it for the eagle’s-eye view it provides of one of our finest American poets. Well into his 70s, Kinnell is still producing poetry as visceral as it is philosophical, forging the universal from the fleshy, messy specifics of life. "Lieutenant! / This corpse will not stop burning!" comes the cry in "The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible," a remarkable war poem

Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: mortal, words, past, acts, three, rags, books
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-04-17
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0618219110
ISBN-13: 9780618219117

This volume brings together BODY RAGS and MORTAL ACTS, MORTAL WORDS and THE PAST, three books that are central to the life"s work of one of the masters of contemporary poetry. Included here are many of Galway Kinnell"s best-loved and most anthologized poems. Kinnell has revised some of the poems for this new edition, and comments on his working method in a prefatory note.

Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: poems, strong
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2008-04-09
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0547053665
ISBN-13: 9780547053660

Here in paperback for the first time is the celebrated eleventh book of poems by Galway Kinnell. The book’s title derives from Walt Whitman’s “Last Invocation”: “Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, / Strong is your hold O love.” In this striking collection, Kinnell gives us poems of intermingling with the natural world, love poems and evocations of sexuality, poems about his father, his children, poet friends, poet heroes, and mythic figures. Included also is “When the Towers Fell,” his stunning requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. The collection also affo

Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: thirst, imperfect
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1996-08-30
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 039575528X
ISBN-13: 9780395755280

Galway Kinnell’s twelfth book of poems is powerful and thrilling. Imperfect Thirst includes beautiful love poems and approaches elemental subjects with a remarkable balance of good nature and holy dread: recollections of childhood, snapshots of impassive cruelty, reflections on art and nature. This energetic collection will prove once again why Galway Kinnell is one of America’s masters of the art.

Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: nightmares, book
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 1973-05-18
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0395120985
ISBN-13: 9780395120989

Galway Kinnell’s poetry has always been marked by richness of language, devotion to the things and creatures of the world, and an effort to transform every understanding into the universality of art.