Owen Books

Again for anyone interested in anything that involves the use of Rope this book is great.

This book shows how to tie knots step by step and is eazy to follow the instructions a great book to own with a lot of good information on how to tie several kinds of knots

Old-fashioned, elegant entertainment and first-rate literature in the bargain. These stories have the magic of fairytales (for grown-ups) and the wisdom of great art.

More fictional than Out of Africa, more along the lines of Babette's Feast. Stories are set throughout Europe, sometimes in locales only hinted at through the character's names. Dinesen reminds me of the sudden twists in Borges or Edith Wharton's short stories. 340 pages, 12 stories.

I can't believe this treasure is out of print :o( It completely changed our lives - laid it all out, what the Bible says - God wants us to give control to Him, whether He chooses to give us children or not, when to give them, and how many. Showed us that it is selfish, even sinful, to tell God to stop blessing us with more children - would we ask Him to stop blessing us with good health? Or money? Then why with children, whom the Bible calls "blessings"? I will search for a copy of this out of print gem for each of our children.

Easy to read format, very thorough. This book opened up our eyes to what the Bible says about children - that they are to be considered "blessings", and gifts from God. Brought us to the realization that it wasn't our place to tell God "when" and "how many times" to bless us. Samuel Owen, my sons, #4 and #5, thank you for writing this book - without it, they might not have been born!

This book is great for better understanding the complete, perfect and effective nature of Christ's atonement, while also helping the reader to view in context passages including universal expressions such as "all", "every", "world", "whosoever".

If reading Owen is difficult them these are the books for you. This work is a simplified version of volume 10 and the single volume 'The Death of Death'. It has been simplified reorganised and shortened. However the theme and scope of the book is still intact. For whom did Christ die? What about universal verses such as John 3:16 and many more? These answers are within the grasp now of the majority of thinking Christians. This book still requires thought and careful study but is within reach and in modern English!

I have just finished Living Next Door to the Death House and really appreciated the good writing. The book was excellent! It has been very helpful to me in my work as a Methodist pastor; during Advent I did a series of lectures on "tough issues" and thought that Homosexuality or separation of Church and State/Prayer in our schools would be the most passionate subjects, but I was amazed in that the Death Penalty was, by far, the most passionate and difficult for many. I have learned that I can talk about why I am against the Death Penalty, but I have not had a loved one murdered...... the stories I have heard from my members have humbled me and I continue to learn that this whole subject is very complex. This book takes so many of the sides and I found it to be very helpful. I will suggest it to my people here that are struggling. Again, I commend the Owenses for their excellent book.

In Living Next Door to the Death House, the Owenses have taken on a difficult and potentially painful subject with great sensitivity and compassion. After talking to everyone from victims to prosecutors, guards to abolitionists, they present a balanced portrait of a system that can not be viewed in black and white. Along the way, they challenge the reader to think about capital punishment's relationship to justice and community, and what it means for someone to be executed in your name. A fair and balanced book, I recommend it to anyone seeking a greater understanding of capital punishment in this country.

A Love That Never Dies by Penny Owen is a wonderful book that carries a hidden message. Unconditional love is to be appreciated and cherished. As we travel down life's journey, we met many people that touch our hearts. Some of these people will remain in our hearts and some will be forgotten soon after we met them. However, very few people will capture our heart and our soul. These special people change our lives just by knowing them. They help to mold us into the person that we will become. We are blessed by their guidance and should always hold them close to our hearts, no matter what path that we take in life. This book is a wonderful read that will have you in the end reminiscing about the very special people who have touched your own heart and soul.

Reviewed by Danielle E. Hiner, author of Growing with Joe (a book about raising a child with autism).
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If you enjoy short read stories, this is the love story for you. Keep a box of tissues handy. It truly is a tear jerker.

As usual Reed writes with the mad inflammation of an inspired poet. He brings the usual manic energy to his poetic/objective evaluations of Baudelaire, Hopkins, but the best is his writings on David Gascoyne, a little known surrealist poet whom Reed is largely responsible for bringing deserved attention to. Jeremy Reed is a man who knows the plight of the seemingly doomed beings we call great poets.

This is an insightful book about how some poets drove themselves to the edge of madness for their craft. I found the author's description of Gerard Manley Hopkins particularly enlightening as a study of the creative process and the role of observation in that: according to the author, when Manley Hopkins was a Jesuit priest he would roam about the countryside intensly observing things in nature to the bewilderment and amusement of passersby... for instance, he would get down on all fours in the middle of a street and stare at a puddle of water for an hour until he had internalized its "essence", enabling him to then sit down and write out in his poems exactly what he had observered. An interesting book for anyone interested in the creative process, the price of dedication to a work of passion or medium, or as a book on methods of observation.

A great read that cuts through the usual business BS and presents the unabashed, practical truth. A refreshing alternative to the usual academic business dribble and a must read for MBA students and new managers. This book is easy to read in a weekend, funny, irreverent, and game changing. It's a bit like being on a plane for 12 hours with a retired CEO giving you the benefit of all of his years of experience over a bottle of scotch - priceless!

If "stripping bare" means taking off the old coating or varnish, Jo Owen has succeeded in baring management to a delightfully ruthless degree. Owen isn't satisfied merely to proclaim that the boardroom emperor has no clothes. No, he catalogs, in encyclopedic A to Z style, every managerial fad, self-aggrandizing procedure and hypocritical impulse. Lest you mistakenly think he's from the "Saturday Night Live" school of irreverence, Owen also offers insightful options for managing the daggers and dangers of corporate life. He doesn't just tear down, he builds up. If painful truth is indeed the heart of all humor, this unbitter, honest book will leave you snickering in your cubicle or corner suite. Owen also offers real-world solutions (while admitting they may be no better than anyone else's). Stripping bare is fine, as long as you go back and apply a new-and-improved coat of varnish. Owen does. We highly recommend taking a break and learning the lessons business school skipped.

This book is an excellent read for anyone even remotely interested in Russian thought, Eastern Orthodoxy, metaphysics, sexual love, and pretty much a host of other topics. Soloviev, a brilliant Russian Orthodox philosopher of the late 19th century, covers a lot of ground in this little book. Love is held up as the shatterer of egoism and the means by which an individual becomes a microcosm of the "all-unity" of the cosmos, uniting all the elements of the world together within himself, and thereby becoming an absolutely unique, absolutely valuable individual who transcends the laws of nature and overcomes death and decay.

For anyone who suspects that love is about more than just mutual affection, more than just economics, more than just childbearing--that love is intimately connected to the fundamental truth of all being--then this book simply cannot be passed up. Even if you end up not agreeing with its conclusions (which are admittedly extremely foreign to Western mindsets), you'll nevertheless be moved by the beautiful vision of love and metaphysics that Soloviev presents.

If you are searching for the Grail in the mystical experience of love and the transference, this is the book for you. The title says it all. Solovyov explores and uncovers the reason there is such archetypal emotional power in love even though the divine, cosmic source is not consciously recognized and understood. It is the failure to recognize the source behind the emotion which results in such tragic disillusion and despair. Finding the true source can be - should be life transforming.

Written by a thirty-year veteran of the Oklahoma City Police Department, Medal Of Honor: Historical Facts And Figures scrutinizes the historical facts and figures concerning those who earned America's highest award for combat valor: the Medal of Honor. From the very first recipient, through various wars, campaigns, and non-combat actions, Medal Of Honor presents lists of who earned a medal, data concerning their age, rank, and location of action, averages of figures, and more. Medal Of Honor is a compendium of facts rather than a narrative-style work of nonfiction, and serves as an excellent reference and resource for military historians and researchers.

The thing about this book is that it is different from every other medal of honor book i have seen. the typical book has the citation which means that they give you vignettes about "sgt. smith did the following and received the medal of honor"-those books have merit but there are plenty of them. this book gives you a breakdown of all kinds of data and statistics on the MOH recipients--such as "firsts" eg. first person to receive MOH who is what race, what rank, what branch of service. it gives totals for home state, branch of service and many other dimensions all broken down by conflict. so if you are a history trivia person or just want a statistical view of the MOH, this is the only book out there that does that. would imagine it would appeal most as light reference or to military history buffs. it is not a narrative and should not be expected to be one, for that there are other books, but for the orginal appoach and analytical work it gets 5 stars.