Owens Books

Hello. I am actually the author of the book. If you as a woman struggle with your self esteem, this book may inspire you to value and honor your feminine identity, something that women who are successful by patriarchal standards have to contend with. The second theme of the book is to envision a society with the masculine and the feminine qualities in balance.

I found this book in the library and kept renewing over, finally deciding to purchase it. I learned Gross Anatomy in medical school this year, but found it difficult to translate what I saw in dissections back to the live person. This book does a beautiful job explaining relationships in surface anatomy with color photos and hand drawings. It includes relationships with arteries, nerves and joints. Most beneficual are the explanations of how to actually palpate the structures in physical exam. This is an excellent resource for medical students.

Through Rice's own writing the book gives a nice history of one our centuries great leftist-Catholic activists, sampling Rice's writings from the thirties through the nineties. It has given me a sharp sense of the issues that were in the minds a generation of Pittsburghers who, like my working class grandparents, hung on Father Rices' words during his regular radio commentaries, and looked to him as a defender and educator through a period of great change. The paperback is nicely put together in a large format and includes many black and white illustrations.

Of the several FE programming texts in the market, I found this book to be the most simple and easy to understand. The authors have a clear writing style that makes the book very easy to understand. The programs are in Fortran, but that is not a great obstacle. The book "Finite elements in plasticity: Theory and practice" by the same authors shows how nonlinear programs should be coded. I would be more than willing to buy both books if they are available somewhere.

In this selection of Wilde's aphorisms and epigrams culled from his plays, novels, stories, reviews and letters, as well as from hitherto unpublished material, Owen Dudley Dewards fully conveys the breadth and humanity of Wilde's mind and, in an introductory essay, he shows the place of Wilde's pyrotechnics in his thought and in his art. He sees that fireworks decade, the 1890s, as strikingly symbolized by Wilde's style as it was dominated by his life. For those familiar with Wilde's work this book provides an invaluable collection of his inimitable utterances; for others it will be the perfect introduction to Wilde the man.

Listeners to the Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera broadcasts will be familiar with the wonderful talks that Father Owen Lee has given once or twice a season over the past two decades. These essays are largely either transcriptions or, perhaps, more detailed revisions of those talks by Father Lee, a classics professor at the University of Toronto specializing in Vergil. If you, as I did, found those talks wonderful, but didn't record them, this book (and his other work on Wagner) is a godsend. Lee's skill as an essayist, blending profound literary, psychological and artistic insights with some personal recollections, is absolutely of the first order. This is as fine a collection of its sort as is available on the market. It certainly should not be out of print.

In tackling a home improvement project involving joint compound and plaster buttons, I kept two books near at hand. One was "HomeOwner's Manual" by the This Old House crew, and the second was "The Walls Around Us" by David Owen. Owen's calming, sensible, everyman approach to shouldering new handyman projects helped steer me through an unfamiliar, mundane project. At some point during the countless hours of smoothing, sanding, and painting, my inattentive mind began to wonder what else Owen had written besides the occasional New Yorker story that subscribers see.

"The First National Bank of Dad" was the answer, and upon reading its subtitle 'The Best Way to Teach Kids about Money' I scooped up a copy. Having two little spenders of my own, I knew I needed this new advice manual from a man who has been there before me. FNBD did not let me down. David Owen writes with a straightforward, humorous, easy-going style that spews common sense and good ideas. His Bank of Dad idea is genius, but only because it flips upside-down the usual parenting mantras of command and control. Put your kids in charge of their money urges Owen, and watch them learn how to spend and save. Stop running Aunt Millie's birthday presents down to the local bank, which to your kids is a "black hole that swallows birthday checks." Instead, Owen puts his kids entirely (almost) in charge of their money, and with his home-based Bank of Dad gives them the opportunity to learn about the power of compound interest. Using a home computer and a slightly more influential rate of interest, he quickly captures his kids' attention.

It's a terrific idea, one I've already adopted, and my kids are unexpectedly as thrilled as his. Owen has more. He teaches his kids free market economics via eBay, creates his own successful Stock Exchange of Dad, and expostulates on the value of part-time employment for kids. His recommendations are surprisingly fresh, honest and logical. Chapter Seven offers perhaps the best observations about life and I could think of many adults I know who would benefit from reading this alone. Chapter Eight is an epistle to the value of reading. By "learning how to purse a subject until their curiosity is satisfied," Owen observes, "later in life they will be able to use that same ability to teach themselves about the bond market." And anything else.

FNBD is an investment of under six hours reading time. It is already paying dividends in my home.

Thomas Owens' Football Stadiums will delight any football fan and will reach beyond its intended advanced elementary-grade level into adult readers, surveying the building of stadiums and the underlying influences on their locations and operations. While the subject may not lend to classroom study, leisure readers with a passion for the sport will find this compelling, packed with detail.

I liked this book. That surprised me. This speaks directly to strength in narration and artistry of Mr. Choukri, who shows us, in this first volume of his autobiography, the despair brought about by ignorance and poverty. Our young man's apparent lack of hope for a better future is made clear from the start. In his teens, born in Marocco, during the French domination, he struggles to find the rules and reasons for the world around him. I say apparent lack of hope, because after the first few paragraphs we already know that he is sensitive, smart and will attempt to survive as best he can, without any help from his family or society. In this respect, I was satisfied early on, for I sensed it would be all right to attach my emotions to this hero; that he would not betray my confidence. Mr. Choukri's narration is also masterful in the depiction of the most despicable acts of violence both physical and moral. He is detached. So we can also keep our safe distance.

I confess to having a special reason for reading this book. Since I spent some time in the early 1980s in Oran, Algeria, I have been intrigued with the peoples of North Africa. And this book takes place in many of the cities and towns that are familiar to me. What surprises is to see that even though there was a good thirty years difference between the time this story took place and the 1980s, there were vestiges that for some, things still remained. I can only hope that there has been considerable improvement in the past 20 years.

This is a book that makes us think. And even though the subject: a disenfranchised youth in the life of petty crimes in the fringe of society is not unusual in the literature of developing countries, it is important to return to these themes once in a while, getting out of our comforatble, well educated bubbles, and rethink our own contributions to world around us.

I am a better person for having read this book. That's a sign of excellence.

Our college comp lit professor used to say that a work of fiction will have one main emphasis out of these three: plot, characterization, theme. The Ford, however, has all three aspects equally strong. In it, Mary Austin tells a riveting story, reveals keen observational and descriptive powers vis a vis the many varieties of humankind (noble and less so), and educates the reader in Western land use and water rights while she's at it. A more complete novel is hard to find. I loved it.