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  • The First National Bank of Dad

    The Best Way to Teach Kids About Money

    by David Owen ...
    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 Owen, a New Yorker staff writer and the father of two children, has devised a revolutionary new way ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Anti-Submarine Warfare

    An Illustrated History

    by David Owen ...
    A deep dive into the tactics and technology used to defend against submarines—from the opening of the First World War through World War II and beyond.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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dogfight

    The Supermarine Spitfire and the Messerschmitt BF 109

    by David Owen ...
    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 which bears retelling since both were essential to the air campaigns of World War Two.Incredibly, the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Graveyard Gladiators

    by David Owen ...
    A fast-paced, high-stakes adventure about heroes beating impossible odds - perfect for fans of Escape Room and Goosebumps. Brand new from the bestselling author of the Alex Neptune series.Once a year, monsters and the undead rise up from the Underworld and battle each other in the Graveyard Games to win a star prize.Tonight, that prize is...Jude's dad.But not if Jude can win him back. With the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • In Sickness and In Power

    by David Owen ...
    In Sickness and In Power looks at illness in heads of government, business and military leaders between 1901 and 2007. It considers how illness and therapy - both physical and mental - affect the decision-making of heads of government, engendering folly, in the sense of foolishness, stupidity or rashness. Owen is particularly interested in leaders who were not ill in the conventional sense, whose ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Tasmanian Tiger

    The tragic story of the thylacine

    by David Owen, David Pemberton ...
    The tragic story of how ignorance, fear and lack of care led to the disappearance of the famous Tasmanian tiger. This updated edition includes the latest research on whether it could ever be cloned and returned to the wild.Is it still out there? People claim to keep seeing it still. Once the world's largest marsupial predator, the Tasmanian tiger roamed the Australian mainland. Then confined to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Green Metropolis

    Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability

    by David Owen ...
    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 jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

    by David Owen ...
    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 story of the machine nobody thought we needed but now we can't live without.Chester Carlson grew up ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • What Do We Owe to Refugees?

    by David Owen ...
    Series series Political Theory Today
    Who are refugees? Who, if anyone, is responsible for protecting them? What forms should this protection take? In a world of people fleeing from civil wars, state failure, and environmental disasters, these are ethically and politically pressing questions.In this book, David Owen reveals how the contemporary politics of refuge is structured by two rival historical pictures of refugees. In ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Where the Water Goes

    Life and Death Along the Colorado River

    by David Owen ...
    **“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street JournalAn 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hit & Hope

    How the Rest of Us Play Golf

    by David Owen ...
    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 intermittently at best, marks his ball on the green with his lucky coin (until the luck wears ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Principles and Practice of Homeopathy

    The Therapeutic and Healing Process

    by David Owen ...
    This comprehensive textbook provides a detailed, practical and thorough basis for the understanding and application of the homeopathic process. Drawing on the experience and knowledge of a wealth of contributors, the book offers the foundations for the safe and broadest practice of modern homeopathy.Divided into 6 sections, this book takes the understanding of homeopathy from basic principles to ... Read more

    $57.39 USD