Owen Books

I searched for about a year before finding this book (in the days before Amazon.com) and when I finally found it, I wasn't disappointed. The book is a few decades old now, but the writing style, being clean and un-flowery, is still as accessable today as when it was first written. Deeply informative and enjoyable, it's actually a bit of a page-turner, and is in fact recommended by scholars such as Catherine Mulholland and Dr. J. David Rogers as a fair and serious work documenting the history of Los Angeles' water saga from the 1870's up through the building of the Colorado River Aqueduct for the MWD in the middle of the 20th Century. A must for your California history bookshelf!

This is a book for one who is seeking to develope themselves Spiritually
to understand why they are here and how to work in harmony with all situations in life.

Jessica loves computer games. Especially violent ones. For a while now, she's been trying to beat Gopher, a game where the player has to defeat mutant gophers with an arsenal of various deadly weapons. She's so sick of Gopher that when her friend Matt offers to meet her on a cool new game site, Go4, she readily agrees. But Jess and Matt are in for the shock of their lives. Because when they play Go4, they find themselves transported to a virtual reality world. In this wacky world, anything goes, including using a credit card without paying and riding on a centaur with the attitude of a surfer dude. But it's not just all fun and games. Because an evil villain wants to take over the world, and only Jess and Matt can stop him. I highly reccomend this book to anyone who's looking for a good laugh.

In Welcome Sweet Babe, Christina Walkley, one of the UK's most percipient and knowledgable costume historians studies christenings and related traditions throughout history. Lavishly illustrated, this book will appeal to specialists in the subject or the informed layperson.

Aptly edited by the collective efforts of T.M. Charles-Edwards, Morfydd M. Owen, and Paul Russell, The Welsh King And His Court is a massive compendium of essays filled with meticulous discourse of the Welsh royal household and the governmental roles of those officers charged with upkeep of horses, sleeping quarters, meals, etc. Primary source texts are presented in English translation, and the essays are written at a college reading level. The Welsh King And His Court is a scholarly text that combines deep thought with multi-level analysis of historical politics. An intriguing and recommended historical study, with a very helpful glossary, abbreviation list and index.

David Powell and Tony Benn have approached a serious political theme in a serious and professional manner and have come up with a well researched (although this shouldn't be to difficult for lifetime left wing intellectual and politician Tony Benn) and debated analysis of the role of the left in the new age / new century.

The result is a work of "genuine analysis, real debate and biased conclusions", in a nutshell, a great piece of political analysis and commentary.

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martyn_jones@iniciativas.com

When Owen's Mom Breathed Fire is a Swedish translated delight. We meet Owen and his single mom in their kitchen one morning as Owen's mother is frantically and loudly trying to get both she and Owen out the door to their respective places. To cope, Owen briefly escapes into the quiet of his big rubber dragon mask. The next morning Owen finds not his familiar mom, but his mom as a dragon who apparently does not know the first thing about being a mom. She lets him have chocolate everything for breakfast. She cleans the plates by licking them. She quiets her cell phone by stomping on it. Although it starts out to be a pretty fun day for Owen, who gets a little sidetracked by the zoo and the park on his way to take his mom to the doctor, his mom-as-a-dragon becomes a bit of a handful especially when she discovers she LOVES to breath fire. Weird, funny, sweet and reassuring, this book is a must have for its wonderful artwork, humor and alternative sensibility.

This photographic essay represents the first time that the crowning of a Condajia or priest-king in Liberia was ever put down on film. It was also the first time that the ceremony was ever performed with a Westerner present. The ceremony takes place among the Po clan of the Gola tribe roughly every two to three decades when the previous occupant dies. Owen was the associate director of the Peace Corps in Liberia from 1967 to 1969, so he was able to gain the familiarity and trust of the Liberian people.
The ceremony is a celebration of the continuance of the village life, as it has gone on for decades. This glimpse into the peaceful daily and ceremonial life of the Po village is unfortunately a thing of the past, as the lengthy civil war has largely destroyed what was once a peaceful society.

In Fort Lauderdale Florida, sping break turns the town upside down. All of the high school girls know that during sping break, there will be a flood of college guys. Cassie finds Tay when he shows up at the restaurant where she is a waitress. Although her mother forbids her to see him, they continue their realtionship. It's a great read. One of those that I've read too many times to count.

Margaret Fountaine's reputation as a lepidopterist (butterfly expert) is based on her collection of 22,000 butterflies which are now housed at Norwich (England) Castle Museum. Many of the butterflies were raised by her from eggs or caterpillars and are of exquisite quality. Since the time of her death (1940) changes have taken place in the science of entomology, leading to a focus on theory over taxonomy and academically trained scientists over self-taught experts. In this area her reputation has therefore gone down somewhat.

Miss Fountaine had two other attributes that have contributed to her. One was her travels. She received an inheritance that gave her the freedom to travel, and travel she did. The second was her private diaries which she had decreed were not to be opened until 15 April 1978, a hundred years from the time she started the diaries.

The diaries have completely changed our opinion of this otherwise staid Victorian lady. While she never married, she was not without male companionship, and her diaries are rather explicit in this area. She was, as the title suggest, Wild and Fearless.