Owen Books

This has to be one of the most beautiful books of poetry written in the 20th century. Owen's style is so personable, so honest and still so fresh and exciting. You feel like your intruding between the poet and her intense relationship with words. It's hard to stop yourself though, because you want these words to take you into their space. These poems just open up the page, play on the page and stay in your head. You'll want to read this a million times.

Very easy to read commentary, Owen had an amazing view of the Lord and His ways, explaining in an easy way God's attributes, election, with an accurate Biblical perspective. This commentaries series put the wisdom of great men of God available for our times. Don't think that modern commentaries are better just because they are written today, God does not change, and Calvin, Luther, Owen, Ryle, Henry and the likes were men of God who showed great zeal and knowledge on Scripture. It truly gives a fresh view of the Lord high and lifted up in each passage. Highly reccomended.

The 17th century puritan John Owen is brilliant. More Christians should read him and I think that this short introduction is an excellent starting place for Owen in Hebrews. While it is an extremly abridged version of the 7 volume mass of Owen's original work, the modern lay will have a hard time picking up Owen in Hebrews and understanding the Greek and long theologically explained points. I believe this is out of print but finding one would be a gem for the lay person.

Owen has a way as many of the Puritans do in making you afraid to stand up upon finishing a reading for fear that the floor will fall out from under you and you will end up in hell, but this is a point that modern Christians ought to spend more time in. He has wonderfully crafted and well pointed out the various points in Hebrews. I personally have benefited very much from this short commentary and would recommend you go out and find one!

....of letters between two of the patriarchs of modern German literature. One thinks of Hesse in particular as so solitary a man; here he shows another side of himself.

This is a magical book, filled with spectacular panoramic shots of beautiful rooms, dining areas, patio/courtyards and surrounding regional splendor.

A perfect escape for the armchair traveler, and for those who have a passion for everything Tuscan. Fantastic decorating ideas await the reader who seeks examples of incorporating a little "Tuscany" into their home. I highly recommend this book!

This book is about change and innovation in military institutions.

Military organizations, especially successful ones, normally tend to resist change. Order reigns, and there are reasons why this is so. In a very real sense, the lives of the individuals who serve in military organizations depend on other military personnel to act predictably, to be where plans say they should be, at the appointed time, doing what their doctrine and training say they should do...As a result, military organizations view change and innovation with great caution. The wrong change, after all, can be fatal, not just for those in uniform but also for their societies.

But sometimes caution leads to stagnation; and failure to adjust to global changes, advances in military technology, or innovations in the conduct of war can lead to the same kind of disasters that cautious bias about change and innovation was supposed to prevent.

I think we are in such a period...Technology pushes beyond the frontiers we took to be inpenetrable limits only a few years ago...In this new era, it is far more dangerous for American military institutions, and for the U.S. Navy in particular, not to change. -- excepts from book's preface

"High Tartary" is the sequel to the "Desert Road to Turkestan",from the 1927-1928 journey carried out by Owen Lattimore and his wife through Chinese Turkestan. While the first book dwells in depth on Lattimore's cavan trip through Inner Mongolia, High Tartary is focused more on the places than on the traveling method. Arriving in Urumchi and thinking the dangerous part of the voyage over, Lattimore beckons his wife Eleonore to reach him. With a seventeen day sledge journey through Siberia (that is object of the beautiful "Turkestan Reunion"), Eleonore reaches her husband and together they travel trough Tartary, a medieval country from the highlands of Tien Shan to the Pamir. Similarly to the Desert Road, Lattimore makes friends with all the people he travels with, he studies in detail all the places he visits with particular attention this time not only to the trade routes, but also to the relationship between Russians and Chinese in these border towns. Naturally we must remember that the book was written just about 10 years after the Russian revolution, so the political interpretations and the situation of those times was different from now, as is also pointed out by the Author in his introduction.
The most fascinating aspect of the book in my opinion is the description of all the human types and ethnicities the travelers meet. They are most fascinated with the nomads Quazaqs, Qirghiz, Chahar, Torgut, whose habits are described in detail.
After a long and apparently meandering trip full of hunting, reading, just simple staying (remember it was a honey moon trip!), the travelers go to Kashgar and then through the "Five Great Passes" to India, where their trip ends.
This is a great travel book, like those written in the 1920-40 (when the going was good), it has humanity, culture, humor, learning, and I would say love in it. Owen and Eleonore Lattimore's lives went on to other books and other feats, but this narrative jewel is still here to remind us of youth, enthusiasm, courage and curiosity.

I just finished reading this book and adored it! You should definately check it out if you like romance. Malek is a wonderfully talented writer.

"...a skyscape of feathery cirrus clouds stretched southward toward Mexico. To the west over the Painted Desert, they were flushed with the afterglow of sunset" From `Dance Hall of the Dead"

At a book signing in Ft. Worth to benefit a homeless shelter, Tony Hillerman expressed how much fun it was to make this book with his brother Barney.

This book contains 200 spectacular pictures from all over Hillerman country. Many pages are picture only with the caption on the page prior or after. The text among the pictures is a combination of history and exerts from Hillerman novels. Now when you read the novels these pictures will come to mind.

Reading this book and looking at the pictures will make you homesick even if you have never been there.