Owens Books

This author conducted his own research & experiments with various metaphysical subjects before defining his associations & rulerships for the Cards. This title is under revision into a 2 volume set*, but the information is also covered in small pamphlets focused on specific areas:
The 'Key' Spread, The Universal Spread, Aspects, Planetary Rulers, Planetary Squares, Cycles of Periodicity

*[SS 7] Magian Cardology Readings Spreads with Explanatory Text + Cycles Date-Tables, ISBN: 1885500211; available 12/05!

He also offers the lowest-cost edition of the 90 Spreads (title: Pure, Life & Age Spreads) used in all versions of the systems derived from Olney H. Richmond's Mystic Test Book.

C. E. O. Carter was perhaps the greatest astrologer of the 20th Century. His vast experience and intellectual brilliance combine to make this book essential reading for all astrologers, beginners and experts alike. Although this book has never been out of print since first published in 1930, Carter's stunningly profound insights are remarkably contemporary. It is a classic in the true sense of the word.

I had always heard that one could divinate from a regular pack of playing cards but usually it is in the context of a truncated Tarot without the major arcana. This system is unique in the sense that it is astrologically based not Tarot based and you can spend less than $10 on a decent pack of playing cards, take them anywhere with you, divinate in public without getting the evil eye from born again Christians, and just generally have an alternate way to sharpen your intuition. I liked the astrological concept in this system and it has already helped me with my regular Tarot readings. I say, good show!

"At the Lake" is a nonfiction, picture book that describes what happens in the natural world around a small lake during a 24 hour period. A clock reveals the time change at the bottom of the full-color, illustrated pages. The beautiful scenes and text describe the many animals that visit the lake during the day and night. A Nonfiction Note at the end of the book explains the difference between nocturnal and diurnal animals.
"At the Lake" is a wonderful introduction to the natural world for beginning readers (time, animals, nature).

The theory of Plate Tectonics is now taught as absolute truth. There are a number of alternative theories. One alternative is that the Earth is expanding in radius size. Hugh Owen believed this. As the head of the Department of Palaeontology of the British Museum he had access to the best ocean floor data and the skill to put it together in an understandible way. He has compiled meticulously detailed sets of maps here showing reconstruction of the Earth going back to 80% of its current radius. There are full world maps for a broad view. There are specific region maps of narrow areas (like the separation of N. America from Africa) that show the exact ocean age dates of expansion. Plate Tectonic theory accepts that the Earth expands at the mid-ocean ridges, but then the theory developed the assumption of "subduction" in 1967 to remove this expansion. Ocean floor drilling was not completed until the 1980's and it did not confirm subduction. The Pacific Basin was surprisingly found to be not far older than the Atlantic Basin (as was expected), but the same age. Dr. Owens ocean data uses the newer data from the 1970's and 1980's. While accepting some subduction, Dr. Owens also shows the need for some expansion and backs up his claims with clear, detailed, graphic evidence.

The Viet Nam war still haunts us, as shown by the popularity of Denis Johnson's recent TREE OF SMOKE.

Interesting voices in this volume include the classic authors Italo Calvino and Bertrand Russell--hard to believe that they were still alive in the 1960s, but here they are. Here also are future Nobel and Pulizer Prize winners, such as Harold Pinter and Doris Lessing.

And I was pleasantly surprised to find some of my favorite little-known authors in here too--Peter DeVries, Colin Wilson, W. H. Auden, George Steiner, James Jones, Nelson Algren, and many others. Many of these had the foresight to see clearly through the propaganda then in vogue.

For instance, Colin Wilson told us, "I have been in both America and Russia and find that each country has a false idea of the other, as a ruthless monster repressing its own people. The ideological differences between East and West are not half so important as this total misunderstanding, which could be banished by honesty and good will. Given this premise, I see the war in Vietnam as an absurd business, another proof of George Bernard Shaw's assertion that human beings take too long to grow up."

We now can see that history more clearly, although we seem blinded to that which is right in front of us. This volume makes an excellent companion to AUTHORS TAKE SIDES IN IRAQ and AUTHORS TAKE SIDES ON THE SPANISH WAR, as well as to such memoirs as Tracy Kidder's MY DETACHMENT and Tobias Wolff's IN PHAROAH'S ARMY: MEMORIES OF THE LOST WAR.

Autopsy of a Merger (subtitled, Trans Union: The Deal That Rocked the Corporate World) is the inside story of one of the most controversial mergers in corporate history.

This case study of a megamerger in the age of mergermania should be read by everyone interested in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, corporate governance, directors' and officers' liability, the social trauma of takeovers, and the impact of the media on major corporate transactions.

The subject is the 1981 acquisition of Trans Union Corporation by the billionaire Pritzker family of Chicago. Trans Union, then a New York Stock Exchange listed company that last ranked no. 278 of the Fortune 500, was a billion-dollar company with a hundred-year history.

The deal was struck shortly before a gala opening night party commemorating the 26th season of Chicago's Lyric Opera. What followed was an opera of another sort -- a montage of drama, intrigue, tragedy, comedy, hope, despair, broken dreams and new opportunities with a real-life cast of characters more captivating than one would find on any ordinary state. It was, some would say later, stranger than fiction.

Four years later, in a landmark 1985 decision that shocked the corporate world, a bitterly-divided Supreme Court of Delaware held that the former Trans Union board of directors had been "grossly negligent in that it failed to act with informed reasonable deliberation in agreeing to the Pritzker merger." The Court's astounding 3-2 decision, which is included in an appendix to the book, would transform the ground rules for corporate takeovers.

In thirty exciting chapters, the book takes the reader through every step of an extraordinary corporate takeover, from the opening night at the opera to the Court's history-making decision.

Autopsy of a Merger cuts the deal to the bone. The "ins" and "outs" of the merger negotiations, the battle of wits and nerves, the financing arrangements, the legal entanglements, the much-ignored human consequences of corporate takeovers -- all of these, and more, are laid bare in this unusual, behind-the-scenes book. As an added bonus, the book includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies on leveraged buyouts ever assembled.

Here is what some reviewers said about the book when it was first published:

CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS: "What Mr. Owen did was spin the story in one fascinating narrative. And that's what makes the book so interesting. For those of us who enjoy reading about business as a form of recreation, the Trans Union saga makes for great entertainment."

CHICAGO TRIBUNE: "Delves deeply into the merger negotiations . . . worth the book's $19.95 price. . . Perhaps an even greater contribution of the book, however, is Owen's description of the merger aftermarth and its effects on employees . . ."

INVESTOR RELATIONS MEWSLETTER: "Closely examines the business drama and human pathos involved in the most controversial merger in corporate history. Must reading."

upon reading this book it left me in awe and spiritual hunger to digest and gain a greater understanding of who I,AM and what is my purpose for being. This book by living SEHAJI master SRI Michael Edward Owens reveal technique and practical application to truly live from the heart consciouness, to viem life in such away that unconditional love will be our focus. TO read this book will elevate one awareness and show how we are all connected to GOD consciouness that supersede our ego.
This book is a gift from the god realize to humanity there is something for everyone to understand the spiritual nature of life.....
To validate what is shared in this book there are spiritual exercise to appeal to all levels of interest and acceptance; We have the opportunity to experiment and pick spiritual exercise that appeal to your spiritual growth ....Clifford Eagan..riverdale, New York

This cookbook is attractively photographed, easy to follow and offers interesting and appealing recipes. Good presentation and a great addition to my cookbook shelf.

Writting this book some 17 years ago, the author makes great advice to managers and decision makers in companies (States and around the globe) using Japan's then success in manufacturing quality products.

The author uses his solid background in statistical science to allert readers about the importance of statistics to businesses and companies.

I regard the recommendations (while a touch vague and, now, slipping out of date) as valid for today's era; companies' directors from evolving countries will have an insight reading the book written in easy language, and will also learn about how quality should be viewed.

Finally, I recommend it as a pre-reading to anyone who is about to study an optimization or robust design/quality engineering course at a post graduate level: It will make the academic context look simpler and easier to grasp on.