Owen Books

The name "Marquis de Sade", has marked itself in the English language and few know why. He is a writer who is "...more talked about than read." However, after reading this text on the controversial author, the reader gets a more realistic view on who this man was and why he is controversial.

Margaret Crosland intertwines Sade's work with her own analysis and provides background and rationale behind his logic. Of course, there are several passages that can be quite stimulating (and just plain gross). However depraved you may think Sade is (and this is speaking from an avid researcher of his work) the value in de Sade's writing comes from your reaction to his work.

Bravo to Crosland for giving us an objective viewpoint into de Sade!

Except for her one act of defiance in marrying Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, against her brother's will, Mary Tudor, younger sister of Henry VIII, has been overshadowed by the more flamboyant members of her family. In this first major biography, Mary emerges as a striking personality in her own right, exhibiting as much Tudor obstinacy and ruthlessness within her orbit as her brother did in his.

Mary's long betrothal to Prince Charles, of Castile was terminated by Henry VIII, who, betrayed by Spain and the Pope in a war to check France, retaliated by making a separate peace treaty with France in which Mary's marriage to the aged Louis XII was stipulated. When Louis died less than three months after the wedding, Mary, fearing that her brother or Francis I would force her into another political marriage, persuaded Charles Brandon, Henry's life long friend to marry her secretly. After finally obtaining Henry's forgiveness, the couple returned to England, where Mary lived until her death in 1533.

Mary's life is an engrossing story, and Professor Richardson places it dramatically against a background of momentous historical change. His account is based on numerous contemporary documents and reflects his broad and sympathetic knowledge of early Tudor England and Renaissance politics. Especially fascinating is the picture that emerges of Henry VIII and his advisor, Cardinal Wolsey, who with increasing finesse and cunning, planned marriage alliances to further English ambitionjs, pitting themselves against such masters of diplomatic intrigue as Louis XII and Francis I of France; Maximilian, the Holy Roman Emperor; and his daughter, Margaret of Austria.

This book is a great addition to any library, not just one of a diabetic. This story has wonderful pictures and simple text! My daughter who is 3 and recently diagnosed with diabetes absolutly loves this story.

This book is an absolute must have for any nursing student or new grad RN. Its organization and plethora of information is unsurpassed by any care-planning source I've encountered thus far. It incorporates JACHO approved nursing diagnoses with standardized outcome criteria, interventions, and rationales. Sections are organized by systemic disorders and precede each medical-surgical condition or procedure with a brief pathophysiology, etiology, and guidelines for patient assessment (i.e. patient history, physical findings, diagnostic studies, and potential complications). Brief discharge planning checklists follow each medical-surgical condition or procedure. Care plans are general; yet allow individualization to your specific client's needs. Compared to other care planning texts, this is by far a more detailed, flexible means of developing goal-directed and action-oriented plans for the daily quality care of your patients.

This is by far the best collection of Peake's art . The reproduction quality is top notch, and there is much that I've never seen in any other book, and I think I've seen them all.
I've had this book for a week, and have already turned on 3 people who had never heard of Peake, just by leaving it out, and letting them flip through it. One ordered the book, and another was inspired to read the Gormenghast series, so what more can I say ?

This is the kind of literary criticism that makes one believe in the process. Owen lovingly takes up texts from vastly different worlds and times and convinces us that our desires, our hopes, our dreams are much more similar than we could ever attempt to deny. It is a love letter to literature, but it seduces us all.

I have bought many text book the past 2 years and this is the first one that I really feel compelled to review a text book. You can really learn a lot of things from it.

The step by step sections are taking you through the Microsoft Office programs such as Word Excel Access and PowerPoint. The ones that have written this book must be the ones that have designed "Office" because they describe exactly what you are about to see on the screen. If you buy the book used and the cd-rom is not included, you are in for a raw deal because you will not be able to do the step by step and the projects at the end of each chapter.

Just get this book and spend a few minutes everyday with it. You will save many hours as you use the "Office" programs.

In a book which many might initially expect to be acontinuation of his highly-regarded _Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel_, Owens takes a large step forward before turning to bring his gaze to bear on the readers of American Indian novels. What do we expect to find in "Indian Territory?" And are Indian writers promoting "literary tourism," or are they appropriating the colonizers' language and creating something that is both fresh and disturbing to Indian and mainstream readers? Who reads these books, anyway? Who gets to review them, and who publishes them?

For scholars who have relied on Owens' steady voice, this book will be a wonderful gift. Several hard-to-find essays have been collected and reworked in this cornucopia of Owens material. While this is not a continuation of _Other Destinies,_ this text will most likely become its steady companion.

Owens examines closely several critical issues particular to mixedblood writers, and pushes some politically hot buttons in the process. Who may speak as an Indian for Indians, for mixedbloods, for the environment, for those who live in urban areas or on reservations? What are "terminal creeds" and why do Owens and his friend Gerald Vizenor oppose this form of thinking and representation? Readers will no longer be confused regarding these questions when they turn the last page before tucking _Mixedblood Messages_ onto the shelf between _Other Destinies_ and _Bone Game_.

Hats off to Dr. Bradley, whose interpretive, integrative, and deductive abilities are obviously surging, at this early point in his career. Never before have I read anything about De Maistre that pierced so painfully, to the point of seeing his logic as it applies to us all. It made me proud, and ashamed. Compelling.

The very concept of grammar - a system in which language can be fixed, structured and therefore transformed - is one of the great achievements of Indian culture. In the past 50 years philosophers and linguists have devoted enormous intellectual energies to the investigation of how the concept was developed among the thinkers of ancient India, for whom the idea became a central problem in their philosophical tradition. Was language, our faculty for naming objects, given by God or did man invent it, either on his own or with powers borrowed from the divine realm?

Through a species of time-space journey akin to Hanuman's, Octavio Paz explores this dilemma: ''What is language made of,'' he asks, ''and most important of all, is it already made, or is it something that is perpetually in the making?''