Rowan: 385 books
by The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Lord Williams of Oystermouth Rowan Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge) Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new book he turns his attention to St Augustine.
St Augustine not only shaped the development...
The Threat Closer to Home
Hugo Chavez and the War Against America
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
A chilling account of Hugo Chávez's shadow war on the United States
The American government has shrugged off South American politics for nearly forty years. In the meantime, our neighbor to the south has grown into an unprecedented threat. Hugo Chávez, the current president of Venezuela and...
Beat
The True Story of a Suicide Bomb and a Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
'Rowan Somerville has written an amazing book. Beat is a riveting, intelligent and scrupulously honest journey through the torment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It runs the gamut of human behaviour, from blood-curdling barbarity to extraordinary generosity; a tour de force.'
– Lara...
Choose Life
Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
The addresses that Rowan Williams has given in Canterbury Cathedral for Christmas and Easter are small masterpieces of this kind. They constitute part of Rowan Williams' essential legacy to Christian believers.
With a new introduction by Dr Williams, this is the first time these pieces have appeared in print. Perfect reading material for Lent or Advent.
by E. Tyler Rowan
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
A caterpillar metamorphoses into a beautiful butterfly - Transformation! We as humans seem to morph back and forth in our transformation. We recognize our imperfection and our need for a perfect God. We are works in progress we are: Caterflies & Butterpillars E. Tyler Rowan does NOT have it all...
Any Kind of Danger
Building Our Connection with Animals. a Veterinary Surgeon Reflects on Animals of the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Know the animals, respect the planet, love thy neighbor.
Rowan Blogg is an Australian veterinarian of the highest distinction and I greatly admire his professionalism, which I observed for years at close range.
In Any Kind of Danger he has extended his work into the environment and moral...
The Living Shore
Rediscovering a Lost World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In the 1990s, a marine scientist named Brian Kingzett was commissioned to survey Canada's western coast. He saw amazing sights, from the wildest, most breathtaking coasts to the smallest of marine creatures. Along the western side of Vancouver Island, Kingzett nosed into an isolated pocket beach where...
The Essential Oyster
A Salty Appreciation of Taste and Temptation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
From Rowan Jacobsen, America's go-to expert, the author of the trailblazing A Geography of Oysters, comes the ultimate oyster guide--a gorgeous, full-color, must-have book.
A decade ago, Rowan Jacobsen wrote a book called A Geography of Oysters that celebrated the romance of oysters, the primal...
Red, White and Bruce
Sex, shootings and shenanigans from San Diego to San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Award-winning journalist Bruce Barton has had a rough time of it lately – girls don’t want to know him, his workmates are a bunch of clowns and instead of breaking major stories he’s forced to dress as a baby for the front page of Australia’s worst tabloid. So when Aussie billionaire-turned-porn...
Superhuman
Life at the Extremes of Our Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
From evolutionary biologist Rowan Hooper, an awe-inspiring look into the extremes of human ability—and what they tell us about our own potential.
In 1997, an endurance runner named Yiannis Kouros ran 188 miles in twenty-four hours. Akira Haraguchi, a sixty year-old man in Tokyo, can recite...
by Rowan Blair Colver
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Sir Finn of Glenrydlen - a friend for Princess Bracken, by Rowan Blair Colver. Cover image by Vanna Alberti.
A quaint and charming tale of chivalry and lore. In the Kingdom of Glenrydlen, Princess Bracken is bored when everyone in the castle is so busy. Can Sir Finn find a friend for her? Who...
Compact Cabins
Simple Living in 1000 Square Feet or Less; 62 Plans for Camps, Cottages, Lake Houses, and Other Getaways
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2010
In the woods, on a mountaintop, or at the water’s edge, a small cabin can fulfill big dreams. With attention to efficient living and minimizing energy footprints, Gerald Rowan provides 62 designs for compact and creative buildings that are flexible enough to fit whatever your needs may be. Rowan...
The Baron in the Grand Canyon
Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein in the West
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
In The Baron in the Grand Canyon, Steven Rowan presents the first comprehensive look at the life of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein, mapmaker, artist, explorer, and inventor. Utilizing new German and American sources, Rowan clarifies many mysteries about the life of this major artist and cartographer...
Subpersonalities
The People Inside Us
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
We all have had the experience of being divided, of being in two minds' about something - one part of us wants to do this, another wants to do that. Subpersonalities is the first book to do justice to the phenomenon as a normal feature of our psychological life. John Rowan argues that we all have...