Owen: 1427 books

In this book Owen Wright analyses a single recording of classical Persian music made by Touraj Kiaras, a distinguished singer, accompanied by four noted instrumentalists. The format of the recording is typical of a public concert performance, and thus includes instrumental compositions as well as...

Influenced by Robert and Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim, Johannes Brahms not only learned to play the organ at the beginning of his career, but also wrote significant compositions for the instrument as a result of his early counterpoint study. He composed for the organ only sporadically or as part...

Being a man isn't all that easy. Men can make some pretty heinous errors, but Men Should Never . . . is sure to set them straight.Let's face it-with the constantly changing ideas of manly perfection, men today need all the help they can get. When left to their own defenses, they strike out in fashion,...

Victoria's Requiem is among the best-loved and most-performed musical works of the Renaissance, and is often held to be 'a Requiem for an age', representing the summation of golden-age Spanish polyphony. Yet it has been the focus of surprisingly little research. Owen Rees's multifaceted study brings...

Many people own physical silver as a safe secure asset that acts as a hedge and financial insurance in a diversified portfolio. Silver is less volatile than stocks. It can be volatile in the short term, but is a store of value over the long term. Unlike stocks, silver does not yield anything and is,...

Life can be seen as a series of existential encounters always needing interpretation, whether it is with ideas or events, even those that are purely imaginary. Sometimes the interpretation is obvious and universal (such as when the young lady gives a firm NO to your invitation to dinner!). But others...

En la Gran Bretaña actual, la clase trabajadora se ha convertido en objeto de miedo y escarnio. Desde la Vicky Pollard de Little Britain a la demonización de Jade Goody, los medios de comunicación y los políticos desechan por irresponsable, delincuente e ignorante a un vasto y desfavorecido sector...

Cómo darle a tu perro una real vida de perro y hacer que él te ame por ello es el manual completo sobre cómo criar y cuidar a un perro. Escrito por un dueño de perros que es tan apasionado con los perros que su esposa está segura de que él fue un perro en su vida anterior! Owen Jones...

With this book, Owen Power offers the first full-length intellectual history of the thinker Hugh Schonfield (1901-1988). Power contextualises Schonfield and his work in the spheres of Jewish ideology and Messianic Jewish politics as a means to explain the complicated nature of Messianic Jewish identity....

Women are constantly being told what to do. It's time someone explained in simple, practical, fun terms what not to do.Essential reading for all modern women who question the appropriateness of thong leotards, Women Should Never . . . is the life-saving guide of what not to do. Women Should Never . ....

Se incluyen en un mismo volumen, por primera vez, los dos textos a partir de los cuales Herman Melville concibió Moby Dick, quizá la más grande de las novelas escritas en lengua inglesa. Melville admiró profundamente y releyó una y otra vez la Narración del naufragio del Essex, de Owen Chase,...

The discovery of an inexhaustible power supply and its development into commercial applications is cloaked in secrecy, but the Federal Lab in Los Alamos learns of the activity and labels it a threat to national security if it falls into the wrong hands. So the Feds, a mid eastern country and a big...

When senior high student Declan Cullen happens upon a silver USB in his recently missing ethic teacher's classroom, he discovers that the small town of Hillside cannot escape the consequences of treason half a world away. Can Declan and his best friend Claire Browning outmaneuver local thugs and international criminals? More than one life will depend on it.

The wild and turbulent 1960's -- when and where anything seems possible until shown to be otherwise. Jake Acree leaves the bohemian blues joints of Chicago  and travels cross-country on route 66 in his battered Chevy  towing two English motorcycles. He lands in Los Angles in the midst of the...