Owen: 1427 books
Ovid Unseens
Practice Passages for Latin Verse Translation and Comprehension
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Ovid Unseens provides a bank of 80 practice passages of Latin verse, half elegiac and half hexameter.
Taken from across Ovid's works, including the Metamorphoses, Fasti, Heroides, Amores and Tristia, the passages help build students' knowledge and confidence in a notoriously difficult element...
by Mark Owen Webb
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
This book takes a theoretical enterprise in Christian philosophy of religion and applies it to Buddhism, thus defending Buddhism and presenting it favorably in comparison. Chapters explore how the claims of both Christianity and Theravada Buddhism rest on people’s experiences, so the question...
Simulation in Healthcare Education
An Extensive History
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
Simulation in healthcare education has a long history, yet in many ways, we have been reinventing the wheel during the last 25 years. Historically, simulators have been much more than simple models, and we can still learn from aspects of simulation used hundreds of years ago. This book gives a narrative...
by Owen F. Cummings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Offers an in-depth, “right-brain” approach to liturgical theology.
Facing the Storm
Using CBT, Mindfulness and Acceptance to Build Resilience When Your World's Falling Apart
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Highly Commended in the 2012 BMA Book Awards
We live in a world where bad things can, and do, happen irrespective of whether we are good or bad, whether we consider ourselves lucky or doomed, and with no regard to fairness. Any of us can find ourselves facing redundancy, the breakdown of a...
by Sidney Owen
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.
Political and Social Influences on the Education of Children
Research from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This book investigates the effects of social and political change on the provision of primary education in post-communist and post-war contexts. Focusing on Bosnia and Herzegovina, the author considers educational developments in post-communist countries of central and Eastern Europe, the effects...
Irreconcilable Differences?
Explaining Czechoslovakia's Dissolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2000
This unique volume brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars as well as Czech and Slovak decisionmakers who were personally involved in the events leading up to the separation of Czechoslovakia. Asking whether the dissolution was inevitable, the contributors bring a range of different...
by Stephanie Petrie, Sue Owen
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2005
Underpinned by substantive research on meeting the developmental and attachment needs of infants, this book offers constructive advice on how to encourage curiosity, confidence and emotional security in young children. Based on a philosophy of respect and sensitive observation of infants, it is appropriate...
Murder, Magic, Madness
The Victorian Trials of Dove and the Wizard
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
In 1856 William Dove, a young tenant farmer, was tried and executed for the poisoning of his wife Harriet. The trial might have been a straightforward case of homicide, but because Dove became involved with Henry Harrison, a Leeds wizard, and demonstrated through his actions and words a strong belief...
by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
More than half a century ago Lady Charlotte Guest gave The Mabinogion to English readers in the form which, probably, will ever most delight them. Her transcript of the Red Book of Hergest was not perfect, she found the meaning of many a Welsh phrase obscure, but her rendering is generally very accurate;...
by Luella Agnes Owen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Transitional Subjects
Critical Theory and Object Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is...
by Tom Owen
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Spreading death wherever he goes, a psychotic killer leaves body parts scattered across five states, changing modus operandi in a diabolical attempt to throw the police off his trail. In Texas, Detective Dave Alison believes the "Trash Bag Killer," now sitting on death row for those crimes,...