David Owen: 65 books
Sheetrock & Shellac
A Thinking Person's Guide to the Art and Science of Home Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
In a world of extreme makeovers, this book is a thoughtful, adventure-filled, witty look at what the space we live in says about us, the pleasures of home renovation projects great and small, and how home renovation can change our lives.
Few things define us as powerfully as the place where...
by David Owen
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
**Look out for David Owen's next book,*Where the Water Goes.
The Conundrum* is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency and the real path to sustainability.**
Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've...
by David Owen
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Earl Woods, the father of young Eldrick "Tiger" Woods, was widely ridiculed in 1996 when, in an article anointing his son as Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year, he likened Tiger's potential impact to that of a messiah. This unseemly proclamation appeared to embody all the worst elements...
Green Metropolis
Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Look out for David Owen's next book, Where the Water Goes.
A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future.
Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic...
The UK's In-Out Referendum
EU Foreign and Defence Policy Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
As David Owen notes in The UK’s In-Out Referendum, the European Union’s attempts at conflict resolution have left much to be desired. In the Ukraine, Baltic States, Turkey, and much of the Middle East, a lack of coherent policy has dominated. This book argues that the negotiations around the United...
Copies in Seconds
How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg--Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The first plain-paper office copier -- which was introduced in 1960 and has been called the most successful product ever marketed in America -- is unusual among major high-technology inventions in that its central process was conceived by a single person. David Owen's fascinating narrative tells the...
Where the Water Goes
Life and Death Along the Colorado River
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes.
The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s...
The First National Bank of Dad
The Best Way to Teach Kids About Money
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Most parents do more harm than good when they try to teach their children about money. They make saving seem like a punishment, and force their children to view reckless spending as their only rational choice. To most kids, a savings account is just a black hole that swallows birthday checks.
David...
Cabinet's Finest Hour
The Hidden Agenda of May 1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In May 1940, the British War Cabinet debated over the course of nine meetings a simple question: Should Britain fight on in the face of overwhelming odds, sacrificing hundreds of thousands of lives, or seek a negotiated peace? Using Cabinet papers from the United Kingdom’s National Archives, David...
Hit & Hope
How the Rest of Us Play Golf
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Jack Nicklaus once said of the incomparable Tiger Woods (echoing a comment made about Nicklaus by Bobby Jones), "He plays a game with which I am not familiar." David Owen, however, plays a game with which we are all very familiar: He plays in a weekly foursome, takes mulligans off the first tee, practices...
The Hidden Perspective
The Military Conversations 1906-1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
In 1905, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey agreed to speak secretly with his French counterparts about sending a British expeditionary force to France in the event of a German attack. Neither Parliament nor the rest of the Cabinet was informed. The Hidden Perspective takes readers back to these...
by David Owen
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
A landmark work of western philosophy, "On the Genealogy of Morality" is a dazzling and brilliantly incisive attack on European "morality". Combining philosophical acuity with psychological insight in prose of remarkable rhetorical power, Nietzsche takes up the task of offering...
British Foreign Policy After Brexit
An Independent Voice
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
At a time of alarming global instability, amid shocking terrorist attacks in Europe and mounting tensions between the USA and North Korea, a clear and focused foreign and defence policy is now more critical than ever. Now that departure is under way, what happens next?
Against this unpredictable...
by David Owen
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
The Prophecy Stones series is a story of how the pure love and honest trust that exists between adults and children can overcome the violent greed and betrayal of those ambitious for power.
When the ruling Council of Witches, the Wicca, find that they have been betrayed, it is too late to prevent...