Owens Books

Way back in the early days of roleplaying games, the fring publishing company known as Judges Guild provided some of the most imaginative and provocative game supplements of their time. Gaming has come a long way since then. Dungeons and Dragons has undergone a mighty facelift. Would the new, revived JG be up to the challenge of the state-of-the art?

You bet they are! The Player's Guide to the Wilderlands represents much of what got people like me hooked on fantasy games in the first place: vast, unexplored wildernesses, exotic cities with strange denizens, mossy ruins of vanished civilizations, and just a little humor to keep things edgy. Production values, once the weak point of JG products, have been brought up to contemporary standards. The regional map is gorgeous.

The book contains background and game information on the Wilderlands, including a rough sketch of major cities (plus a more detailed look at the City State of teh Invincible Overlord), details on the exotic races of the Wilderlands (Amazons! Blue Skinned Avalonians! Hawk-men! All available as PC races!), a listing of many of the Wilderlands' gods and religions, a brief history, and a geographical gazetteer.

If you are tired of the Forgotten realms, are no longer frightened by Ravenloft, and seek an alternative to Greyhawk, go forward to gaming's past. Give teh Wilderlands a shot.

The poetry in this book covers the full spectrum of emotions. Written in such a way as to pull the reader into the poems, allowing for a journey encompassing all of the senses. Easy to get lost in, not a front to back read, but pick and choose,based upon one's mood at the moment.

Dr. Hipp's tome wrestles with a great period of British Literature--World War I. The WWI literary field is as ripe as any, and Dr. Hipp takes on three of its giants. While Dr. Hipp is also known for his Nabokov scholarhip, he clearly is more than dabbling in this subject area. His book will soon be heavily referenced among students and scholars working in WWI literary history.

I think Poison Ivy And Eyebrow Wigs is a great book to read for everybody. I got my evidence that this is just a great book for people to read from the Internet and Library. The story is about a boy that tries to make it in the fourth grade. He wants to be with the cool pack of kids. People are always talking about his bushy eyebrows and one day he decided to trem them. After he cut them they were messed up with bold spots. This story has some very funny situations. I love this book because it is funny , it has a lot of different kids of characters , and I think it is well-paced but the story still goes fast. If you read this book you would have trouble putting it down and to stop laughing.

This book is very hilarious !!! One of the most funny parts is when the main character Martin shaves his eyebrows because they are to bushy. He ends up with bold spotted uneven cut eyebrows and he glues some hair on the top of his eyebrows to patch up his mistake. I couldn't stop laughing. One reader called this book "hilarious". As you know I relay stand by that idea.

This book has a lot of different kinds of characterization. There are a lot of point of views from different characters. One reader said it has dozens of different people. It has a lot of different personalities in it. They have the kind of kids that want to run around with the cool pack. They have the joker kids that do not relay care about any thing. They also have the smart geky kids that don't care to be cool.

I also think the book is good because it goes at a good pace. The book doesn't rush throw the story and leave out details. It also doesn't go throw the book slowly and puts you to sleep. That is why I think this book is well-paced. One reader said "This well-paced , fast-moving story includes some incidents of typical sibling rivalry and is told with sympathetic humor." I agree on everything this reader said. Yes this book has incidents of typical sibling rivalry. The kid has the same problems of an every day kid. Kids could really relate to this book.

Some people think the plot is to superficial. The kid goes out of his way to be with the cool kids. It tries to be a deep story and a funny at the same time. One reader said the plot was very superficial. I think the plot was not superficial , I think it was a very true plot. It also told a lot about what kids have to go throw these days. The book was not very original because it has the same plot as many other books. One reader said this book is not original. I think this book doesn't use a new plot but it takes this kind of plot to a new level by adding humor. In this story they have quick deft characterization of a dozen of different people. Even though they have they quick characterizations of different people if the try to focus on each person in this story we wouldn't have a main character.

These are all my opinions on this book , and I relay think this book is great. These were my reasons for liking this book it was funny , it has a lot of characterization ,and it is very well-paced. I think reading is a big part of life. If we didn't read were would that fun imaginative side of us go. Parents need to influence their kids to read and stop watching all that TV. and listening to music. If they read this book I'm sure they would get in to reading because this book will relate to their every day life and a make them read. This is a great book to get your children reading. If you didn't read this book your life must be dull.

This dictionary contains most of the terms that are related to Sikhism. Although not really an introductory course, by reading the definitions of so many words in the Sikh vocabulary, one gets an idea of what the religion is all about, including its relation to Islam and Hinduism, the two related faiths of India. The book lists the major figures in Sikhism, an outline of the history of the religion, a list of the sacred books, theology and a general overview of the philosophy, both in the introduction and in the definitions itself. A great aid for those interested in the faith.

Jeff Owens is wonderful and wise, but nearly $200 is outragous, buy from Owens Publications direct for under $20 http://www.owenspublications.com/bcounseling.html

This book was short, simple, and to the point. Written for non-engineering technicians, this book perfectly explains the basic theory, design, and operation of ion exchange systems - primarily water deionization.

It the newest revision the author has added a troubleshooting section as well as a technical reference section dealing with unit conversions and acid/base concentration conversions.

For those who wish to get a little more in depth knowledge there is a reference section which points you to various scientific papers written on the subject as well as several college level text books.

A definite "must read" for the water treatment technician!

I loved this story for so many reasons: the writing style (John Irving is the best), the well-defined characters especially Owen - such a bizarre little man, the bigger issues - war, love, peace, friendship ties - and of course the car scene. Exquisite. Humorous and tragic, the story grips you from the first sentence. Looooooved it. Infinite number of stars

My wife bought this for my son from Scholastic Book service and then it ended up becoming a bit of an obsession for my son and I. We have spent hours looking up the various creatures and studying fossils. This book is brief, but the illustrations are fantastic and evocative and give a good grounding of the great ages in the evolution of life on earth. The focus is broad an inclusive - from the rise of single celled life through the Burgess Shale, Cambrian, Silurian seas, fishes, advent of life on land, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, mammals - broken out by continents with a nice section on marsupials - and finally a about 1/4 of the book focuses on the rise of humans. There are pages for Austrolopithicines, Homo Habilus, Erectus, Neanderthals, Homo Sapiens, and a mention about rise of animal husbandry and agriculture. The scholarship is pretty up to date and the sins are mostly of omission. The strength is that the illustrations are so beautiful and dynamic (some have narrative elements which captivate kids). Books like this are gateways - they do not have enough content to provide a great education - but that brevity is a strength: they provide just enough to draw kids in.

The one mis-step of this book is that it attempts to provide that next step by the so-called "internet-linked" feature. Visiting the usborne-quicklinks web site proved frustrating. The site is poorly laid out and is hampered by a terribly poor search functionality and some content that requires real player (which we choose not to run since it introduces spam IM messages). I found just going to Google far superior. There is GREAT pedogological content on this site - but you have to dig around for it - work better done by a grown up than a child. Other than this quibble this book was definitely worth it. We all had a ball and I learned a lot myself (which was probably a factor in it getting my son so fired up too).

Wonderfully intense and extensive, yet well thought out and applicable. Extensive references allowing easy cross-bridging of information. Applicable from the most simple to the most complex concepts. Probably too deep for the average non-medical person, but easily lends self to anyone willing to study the material. I love it, and I am looking forward to an updated edition.