David Owen: 65 books
by David Owen
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Fajra is grown more powerful and is about to learn the location of the Prophecy Stones. The world fears her: humans and other creatures alike.
She has learned the darkest powers of Fire and now controls its greatest wrath -volcanoes.
Nesta has lost her friends and is forced to travel on alone....
My Usual Game
Adventures in Golf
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Published just in time for Father's Day, this engagingly witty discourse takes readers along on Owen's golfing adventures--playing the Masters course in Augusta, touring Ireland's greatest greens, meeting the sport's real millionaires (the equipment manufacturers), and chatting with local duffers. Line drawings.
Tasmanian Devil
A unique and threatened animal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The story of the Tasmanian Devil is a remarkable one - surprising, controversial, funny and tragic. Nor has it been told before. Few mammals have been so negatively named, but this book casts the Tasmanian Devil in a strikingly new light. Far from being a scavenging, ferocious oddity, it is a treasured...
Foinavon
The Story of the Grand National’s Biggest Upset
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos extraordinary even by the Grand National's standards and won the world's toughest steeplechase.
The jumps-racing establishment - and Gregory Peck,...
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2006
This astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an international group of scholars, including some of the best known in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical...
by David Owen, Robin Shohet
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book helps trainee and practicing doctors to understand supervision and to engage with it in a way that will assist their professional development.
Thylacine
The tragic tale of the Tasmanian Tiger
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Is it still out there?
Thousands of Australians, including dedicated and serious scientists, claim to keep seeing it still.
The world's largest marsupial predator was deliberately hunted to extinction through fear, ignorance and greed. But was it a savage sheep killer or a shy, fussy,...
Visiting the Memory Café and other Dementia Care Activities
Evidence-based Interventions for Care Homes
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Activity and engagement are vital to our well-being throughout our lives and this continues to be just as true of people living with dementia.
The activities presented in this book have been designed to provide meaningful engagement for residents, while respecting each individual resident's...
Dogfight
The Supermarine Spitfire and The Messerschmitt BF 109
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Innumerable books have been published on the two most famous fighter aircraft of all time, the Supermarine Spitfire and the Messerschmitt Bf109. But books setting out to tell the story of both aircraft are very much rarer - probably fewer than the fingers of one hand. Yet their joint story is one...
Anti-Submarine Warfare
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
The submarine was undoubtedly the most potent purely naval weapon of the twentieth century. In two world wars, enemy underwater campaigns were very nearly successful in thwarting Allied hopes of victory - indeed, annihilation of Japanese shipping by US Navy submarines is an indicator of what might...
Shark
In peril in the sea
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The shark has been our planet's dominant predator for millions of years. But in just fifty years all sharks have become threatened by human activity; victims of a deadly combination of overfishing, pollution and the destruction of their habitats. Although scientific knowledge of sharks is increasing...
by Anna Chesner, Sheila Ryan, Jane Read
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
This is a book that unashamedly brings love, spirit and soul into the heart of the supervision process but does so without becoming sanctimonious or precious. We see this through the various heart-felt experiences and stories of the different helping professionals that Robin Shohet has brought together'
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Politics Recovered
Realist Thought in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Is political theory political enough? Or does a tendency toward abstraction, idealization, moralism, and utopianism leave contemporary political theory out of touch with real politics as it actually takes place, and hence unable to speak meaningfully to or about our world? Realist political thought,...
Player and Avatar
The Affective Potential of Videogames
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Do you make small leaps in your chair while attempting challenging jumps in Tomb Raider? Do you say “Ouch!” when a giant hits you with a club in Skyrim? Have you had dreams of being inside the underwater city of Rapture? Videogames cast the player as protagonist in an unfolding narrative. Like...