Authors:David McConnell, David Steer, Katherine Owens, Cather
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Keywords: earth, science, introduction
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2007-03-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073256501
ISBN-13: 9780073256504

The Good Earth (TGE) is the product of collaboration between the content rigor provided by Earth Science specialists (McConnell, Park, Steer) and the results of research on learning as contributed by pedagogical experts (Knight, Owens). TGE has been explicitly designed to be compatible with inquiry-based, active learning in the college classroom. The structural elements of this text will allow the instructor to incorporate these student-centered teaching methods into their Earth Science course. The authors have tested the book’s content and pedagogy in large Earth Science classes for non-maj

Authors:Mark James Owens, Cordelia Dykes Owens,
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: african, wilderness, adventure, epic, elephant, eye
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 1993-10-29
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0395680905
ISBN-13: 9780395680902

Expelled from Botswana for writing Cry of the Kalahari, the Owenses set off across Africa. They settled in Zambia, where they soon found their peace shattered by the gunfire of elephant poachers. This is the story of the couple’s battle to save the elephants and their own lives.

Authors:Mark James Owens, Cordelia Dykes Owens,
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: unraveling, mysteries, elephants, people, wilderness, african, savanna, twenty, three, years, secrets
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-07-17
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0618872507
ISBN-13: 9780618872503

In this riveting real-life adventure, Mark and Delia Owens tell the dramatic story of their last years in Africa, fighting to save elephants, villagers, and -- in the end -- themselves. The award-winning zoologists and pioneering conservationists describe their work in the remote and ruggedly beautiful Luangwa Valley, in northeastern Zambia. There they studied the mysteries of the elephant population’s recovery after poaching, discovering remarkable similarities between humans and elephants. A young elephant named Gift provided the clue to help them crack the animals’ secret of survival. A

Authors:Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine Linehan, Katherine
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: critical, editions, norton, hyde, case, jekyll, strange
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0393974650
ISBN-13: 9780393974652

The text of Stevenson’s novella is that of the 1886 First British Edition, the only edition which was set directly from the author’s manuscript and for which he read proofs. It has been rigorously annotated for undergraduate readers and is accompanied by a textual appendix. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of materials on the story and its relevance to Victorian culture. "Performance Adaptations" shows the versatility with which the plot of Jekyll and Hyde has been reworked over more than a century as an outlet for modern psychological and social concerns. "Criticism" c

Authors:Philip Sidney, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Katherine Dun
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: arcadia, world, classics, oxford, old, pembroke, countess
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1999-06-03
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 019283956X
ISBN-13: 9780192839565

Sidney was in his early twenties when he wrote his ’Old’ Arcadia for the amusement of his younger sister, the Countess of Pembroke. A romantic story in the manner of Shakespeare’s early comedies, the ’Old’ Arcadia also includes over 70 poems in a variety of meters and genres. This edition contains a Glossary and an Index of First Lines.

Author: Ron Owens
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: wolfe, world, nero, guide, fellow, stout
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-05-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0595278612
ISBN-13: 9780595278619

Are you one of the millions who has spent many pleasant hours reading about Nero Wolfe converting the calories from his gourmet dining (albeit grudgingly) into mental energy to solve a murder? If you have traipsed through that morass of neuroses, idiosyncrasies and obsessive-compulsive behaviors, you must have questions. Did you know that while Wolfe usually tilts the scales near one-seventh of a ton, he may once have weighed less than his svelte associate, Archie Goodwin? Or how many times the "unbreakable" rules of the house are broken? Or why Fritz speaks French although he’s not f

Author: Owens
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: matters, multilingual, irish, acquisition
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1992-04-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1853591130
ISBN-13: 9781853591136

This book considers the growth of the Irish language in Belfast today. The reader is invited to take a close look at a unique vibrant speech community in Belfast. During the 1960’s, its members took an important step, when they determined to create an environment wherein they could raise their children as Irish speakers. The success of the initiative is most clearly evidenced by the steady diffusion of bilingualism throughout surrounding neighbourhoods.