Owen Books

This book is great for beginners of the Hebrew language. Takes you step by step through the alephbet, the grammar, the pronunciation, everything that you need to get started. Highly recommended for beginning Biblical scholars!

If you have not read Edith Wharton's 1911 classic novel "Ethan Frome", a wonderful dramatization 1936 was written by Owen Davis and his son Donald. This play is included in the Best American Plays 1918-1958 Supplementary volume, edited by John Gassner According to Gassner, Edith Wharton loved the theatrical version of her book, adding that "here at last is a new lease of life for Ethan" She felt that few had the luck to see the characters transported to stage without loss or alteration of any sort.

To read this play, one is required to stage directions that are comprised with a great deal of action. It is not filled with lengthy monologues; it is simply a play with consistent action and display of emotions by the characters. The play moves fast.

Set in Northern New England, the play begins in the present, the prologue, and we are to understand what occurred 20 years ago. The ending, the epilogue, takes us back to the present. Other than the three main characters, few have short roles.

Ethan From, 28, is a poor farmer married to Zeena, 32, always sickly and considered a hypochondriac. She speaks poorly of Ethan, is demanding and shows him a lack of respect as when she tells him "if you had a mind to" Zeenia is frustrated that Ethan has her in such poverty. Now Zeenia is demanding to Ethan that her cousin Mattie, 20, come to help. Ethan is adamant against paying for a hired girl and Mattie comes anyway because she needs a place to stay and will not be accepting payment.

Although it seems predictable that Ethan and Mattie will be in love, we don't really get that message blatantly. So subtle is the relationship that one just assumes.

We also don't get much that Zeenia is on to something happening, but she is and soon dmmands that a new hired girl is to arrive and Mattie must go. This time, Ethan is adamant that Mattie stay. What happens next is interesting, and with a unique twist.

This play is wonderful!.....MzRizz.

Owen F Cummings (Regents Professor of Theology at Mt. Angel Seminary in St. Benedict, Oregon) presents Eucharistic Doctors: A Theological History as an informed, informative, and scholarly theological study of the Christian ritual of the Eucharist. Eucharistic Doctors includes an analysis of thirty total "doctors" of the Christian tradition of eucharistic thought. involving the study of contemporary time, both the Eastern and Western Churches, Eucharistic Doctors lists, and includes the histories of Ignatius of Anitoch, Hippolytus, Ambrose, John Chrysostom, Augustine, Macimus the Confessor, Thomas Aquinas, Wyclif, Luther, Calvin, Thomas Cranmer, and others. Eucharistic Doctors is a very highly recommended read for all students of the Christian faith in general, and the Christian sacrament of the eucharist in particular.

"Ion" is one of many plays by Euripides in which he tried to show his Athenian audience that when judged by ordinary human standards the gods themselves would fall short. In this play, Apollo, the god of truth, brutally rapes a helpless young girl, Creusa, and then abandons her, which is not exactly something new for one of the Olympian deities. Creusa has a son (Ion), whom she abandons in a cave; when she goes back to find the child, he is gone. Years later she marries Xuthus, a solider of fortune who becomes king of Athens, which is where Euripides picks up the story.

At the start of the play Xuthus and Creusa are childless and go to Delphi for aid. There they are told that Ion, a young temple servant who has been raised from infancy, is the son of Xuthus. Creusa, outraged that Apollo let their own son die but preserved the life of a child begotten by Xuthus on some Delphian woman, tries to have Ion killed. Of course, in reality, Ion is her own child, abandoned in that cave. Condemned to death by the Delphians, Creusa escapes Ion's vengeance by taking refuge at Apollo's altar. There the priestess presents the tokens that allow Creusa to recognize Ion as her own son. Telling him the truth about his father, Ion tries to enter the temple to demand of Apollo the truth.

There is some academic debate over how much "Ion" reflects the noted religious skepticism of Euripides. After all, we can certainly believe that Creusa was raped by a human and that he child died in that cave and that the priestess who bore Ion was simply setting up a convenient fiction that would make her son the prince of Athens. Apollo is the subject of the indictment, but the gods who introduce and end the play are Hermes and Athena. However, I do consider "Ion" to be one of the best examples of Euripides's cynical view of the gods the Greeks were supposed to be worshipping. Athena forestalls a confrontation between Ion and Apollo, but this particular example of deus ex machina certainly rings hollow. After all, Delphi is Apollo's holy place and if Athena's words are true, he should be there to reveal the truth to his son instead. Ultimately, "Ion" is one of the more provocative of the extant plays of Euripides.

This is certainly one of the better books of its type. Wegs and Ladrech have presented history in a lively, interesting style that manages to avoid a tendency to be dull or `dry'. The book follows a logical order from the end of World War 2 and the consequent rise of the Superpowers, through to the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. All important aspects of this period are covered such as economic recovery in Western Europe, the end of the Eurocentric order, the Cold War, Eastern and Western European politics, post war society and the student riots of the 1960's. The final two chapters in the book cover culture and thought in Europe and a look toward the 21st century.
In the introduction, the authors freely state they have `favoured conciseness over excessive attention to detail'. In being concise however, the authors have merely avoided excessive, over detailed prose and have not omitted essential detail. This is a work that should prove invaluable to students of this era.

This book will connect you to the challenges and triumphs of men and women around the world. We share a great deal in common, including the ability to encourage each other to believe in better days.

In the text 'Everyday Prayers for God's People', Owen O'Sullivan OFM has produced a short and useful text of prayers for those new to prayer life and those who have a lifetime of experience. If your tradition is one of spontaneous prayer, this book will give you insights; if your prayer life is based upon set liturgical patterns and texts, this book will give you interesting variations. Drawing upon the whole experience of the Christian church - Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant - O'Sullivan brings many disparate things into harmony, and shines new light upon old familiars.

The heart of the book is a four-week cycle of daily prayers, both morning prayer and evening prayer. In these four page sections for each day, there are two pages for morning prayers and two pages for evening prayer. The prayers include praise, intercession, confession, thanksgiving, blessing and reflection. The prayers for each of the morning and evening are well suited for starting the day with energy and spirit, and for settling the spirit for a calm and peaceful night. The days also correspond generally to liturgical Christian practices that Monday would the start of the working week, Friday is a day of penance and special devotion, and Sunday would be the day of the Eucharist.

Each prayer has a source citation, which is a great bonus for those whose interests are scholarly, or for those who simply want to pursue more resources should a particular prayer or idea prove especially significant. Following the four-week cycle section, O'Sullivan provides a brief bibliography and reference material for further study.

The index of authors, sources and terms is especially welcome here. No simple list of names, it includes biographical information the authors and historical information on the sources, as well as good, useful definitions of terms. The reader can easily see the type of person who can produce certain types of prayers, beyond a simple name and date.

The last few pages include indexes of Psalms, other Biblical Canticles cited/used, a few pages of the most common prayers in Christian practice (these include the Lord's Prayer, the Hail Mary prayer, and some creeds - which are, for the technically minded, not prayers as such, but commonly recited liturgical pieces nonetheless).

Owen O'Sullivan is an Irish-born priest who has traveled and worked extensively throughout the world in his priestly vocation. A published author in many languages, he currently works as a parish priest in Belfast while continuing his writing vocation as editor of journals and regular newspaper columns.

Columba Press (name for St. Columba, 'the dove of the church') is a growing press based in Ireland, begun in 1985 with three titles relating to religious and spiritual themes. Since then, they have grown substantially and now publish across a broad range of areas, including pastoral resources, spirituality, theology, the arts, and history. With over 200 books in print, they add another 30 or so each year. Additionally, they are the British/Irish/European distributors for many other titles in the same fields.

I suffer from Colitis and found this wonderful book helpful and noteworthy. I highly recommend this informative book to others.

This book is probably the best comprehensive study book for the Professional Development part of the ExCET exam. It has lots of information and sample test questions. It is very well written and was suggested in my school district as the best book to get. There is a study book that works well with it (kind of like a workbook) called Pass the ExCET on Your First Try. I highly recommend The Best Test Prep...

The book begins with basic concepts in mathematical economics and optimization as optimization of common functions in economics and theory of demand also includes the clasical topics core, welfare, demand excess etc, the book's exercises are great, you only need a basic mathematical level, derivation, real analysis and some of multivariate analysis, I like the way of this book few words but have many proofs and exercises.