David Owen

'I loved it . . . There's nothing out there like All The Lonely People - it's uniquely brilliant, bold and not afraid to shout about what's wrong with the world, while still showing how subtle changes and hope can save lives. Original, shocking, eye-opening and thoroughly enjoyable' Simon P Clark, author of Eren Everyone tells Kat that her online personality - confident, funny, opinionated - isn't her true self. Kat knows otherwise. The internet is her only way to cope with a bad day, chat with friends who get all her references, make someone laugh. But when she becomes the target of an alt-right trolling campaign, she feels she has no option but to Escape, Delete, Disappear. With her social media shut down, her website erased, her entire online identity void, Kat feels she has cut away her very core: without her virtual self, who is she? She brought it on herself. Or so Wesley keeps telling himself as he dismantles Kat's world. It's different, seeing one of his victims in real life and not inside a computer screen - but he's in too far to back out now. As soon as Kat disappears from the online world, her physical body begins to fade and while everybody else forgets that she exists, Wesley realises he is the only one left who remembers her. Overcome by remorse for what he has done, Wesley resolves to stop her disappearing completely. It might just be the only way to save himself. All the Lonely People is a timely story about online culture - both good and bad - that explores the experience of loneliness in a connected world, and the power of kindness and empathy over hatred.

All the Lonely People

"The Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado's headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.-Mexico border where the river runs dry"--Amazon.com.

Life and Death Along the Colorado River

Where the Water Goes

One cover. 360 different colours. Which one will you get? 'A powerful and disturbing new take on an original classic' Tim Bowler, author of Carnegie Medal-winner River Boy 'I loved this book . . . Pacy, gripping, intriguing [and] poignant' Alice Oseman, author of Solitaire and Radio Silence Young people on the Midwich Estate don't have much hope for their futures. Keisha has lived there her whole life, and has been working hard to escape it; others have just accepted their lot. But change is coming . . . One night, everyone inside Midwich Tower falls mysteriously unconscious in one inexplicable 'Nightout'. No one can explain what happened during those lost hours, but soon afterwards Keisha and three other girls find they're pregnant - and the babies are growing at an alarming rate. As the news spreads around the tower, its residents turns against them and the situation spirals toward violence. Keisha's life unravels as she realises that the pregnancy may not have just ruined her hopes for the future: she might be mother to the end of the world. The Fallen Children is a story of violation, of judgment and of young people who must fight to defy what is expected of them. The Fallen Children has one cover design but 360 different colourways. Each one is numbered from 1 to 360 on the spine. The colour you receive will be completely random. 'THE FALLEN CHILDREN is ATTACK THE BLOCK meets VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED and feels like the London I know. It's very cool' - Juno Dawson 'An ingenious twist on a classic. Surprisingly tender and moving, completely convincing and gripping' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'Read THE FALLEN CHILDREN if you'd like less middle-class kidlit, allegorical commentary on society and teens, and dead good books' - Non Pratt

The Fallen Children

Poses a challenging analysis of the environment and its future prospects, arguing that residents of urban areas consume and waste less than other Americans because of their smaller living spaces and use of public transportation.

Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are Keys to Sustainability

Green Metropolis

Millions of Americans suffer from hearing loss. Faced with the cost and stigma of hearing aids, the natural human tendency is to do nothing and hope for the best, usually while pretending that nothing is wrong. In Volume Control, David Owen argues this inaction comes with a huge social cost. He demystifies the science of hearing while encouraging readers to get the treatment they need for hearing loss and protect the hearing they still have. With wit and clarity, Owen explores the incredible possibilities of technologically assisted hearing. And he proves that ears, whether they're working or not, are endlessly interesting.

Hearing in a Deafening World

Volume Control

Grief Angels

The flip side of the Wall Street Journal, these witty essays on American business, reprinted from Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly, probe less familiar issues and personalities. Among the subjects covered are donating one's body to a medical school (and being converted into "a dark form that suggested nothing so much as the week after Thanksgiving"), visiting Liverpool in the company of 66 American Beatles worshippers, attending a convention of convention planners and the history of the U.S. toy business. Owen has a knack for picking offbeat topics as well as a rich and delicious sense of humor: there isn't a paragraph in the book that doesn't sparkle.

And Other Adventures in American Enterprise

The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning

Hidden Evidence takes you to the scenes of 40 infamous crimes and into the heart of the forensic investigations. These are the true crime shockers that have grabbed headlines and aroused public passions. David Owen explains the scientific procedures that helped crack every one of these cases -- from the gathering of elusive physical clues to the examination of weapons and bodies, to the use of sophisticated scientific analysis. Threaded throughout the book is the history of forensic science and the technologies that support it, including: fingerprinting, autopsies, handwriting analysis, ballistics, hair sampling, blood typing, DNA testing, dental records, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, compound and electron microscopes, and toxicology. The high-profile cases David Owen used to illustrate forensic developments are from as early as 1775, when Paul Revere used dentures to identify a slain soldier, to the latest developments in the Oklahoma bombing. Most will be familiar to readers, such as: The Lindbergh Kidnapping, Pan Am Flight 103, The Kennedy Investigation, The Hitler Diaries, Wayne Williams, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey MacDonald, Dr. Josef Mengele, Robert Maxwell's suicide, Tsar Nicholas II, and The World Trade Center bombing. David Owen presents the facts, steering clear of speculation. Comprehensive in scope, thoroughly researched and expertly compiled, Hidden Evidence is, in the words of former Los Angeles County Coroner Thomas T. Noguchi, "a fascinating book ... [and] an excellent mini-encyclopedia of widely discussed, high-profile cases."

Forty True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them

Hidden Evidence

Outlines a practical contrarian manifesto on modern environmental issues that challenges perceptions that current practices will be sufficient, revealing facts and ways to apply initially counter-intuitive but ultimately beneficial methods for securing asustainable environment.

How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse

The Conundrum

The Best Way to Teach Kids About Money

The First National Bank of Dad

Do you ever wonder why you are who you are? How come you do what you do? Where do your thoughts originate? What lies beneath the surface of our lives? Journey with Dieter from a torture chamber in occupied France to apparent freedom in Toronto. But, the chains of his past entrap him, forcing him to question the very essence of his existence. Dieter's humanity is our humanity. His story is our story. We are all part of the deep regularity encompassing the universe.

The Whore On The Table

A history of relations between Britain and Russia from the nineteenth century to the present. With Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma, statesman and author David Owen tells the story of Britain’s relationship with Russia, which has been surprisingly underexplored. Through his characteristic insight and expertise, he depicts a relationship governed by principle as often as by suspicion, expediency, and necessity. When the two nations formed a pragmatic alliance and fought together at the Battle of Navarino in Greece in 1827, it was overwhelmingly the work of the British prime minister, George Canning. His death brought about a drastic shift that would see the countries fighting on opposite sides in the Crimean War and jostling for power during the Great Game. It was not until the Russian Revolution of 1917 that another statesman had a defining impact on relations between Britain and Russia: Winston Churchill, who opposed Bolshevism yet never stopped advocating for diplomatic and military engagement with Russia. In the Second World War, he recognized early on the necessity of allying with the Soviets against the menace of Nazi Germany. Bringing us into the twenty-first century, Owen chronicles how both countries have responded to their geopolitical decline. Drawing on both imperial and Soviet history, he explains the unique nature of Putin’s autocracy and addresses Britain’s return to “blue water” diplomacy.

Two Hundred Years of British–Russian Relations

Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma

Investigating the different factors involved in aviation accidents, from severe weather conditions to pilot error, metal fatigue and inadequate aircraft maintenance, this title illustrates each major by means of crucial incidents, some of which puzzled the investigators, initially at least.

Air Accident Investigation

A history of the photocopier offers a portrait of reserved physics graduate Chester Carlson, who invented the copier to ease his job as a patent clerk and who saw his marketing efforts daunted by numerous rejections, before the head of Xerox research recognized the machine's potential. 50,000 first printing.

How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg : Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine

Copies in Seconds

Life isn?t going terribly well for Derrick; he?s become severely overweight, his only friend has turned on him, he?s hopelessly in love with a girl way out of his league, and it?s all because of his sister. Her depression, and its grip on his family, is tearing his life apart. When rumours start to circulate that a panther is roaming wild in his south London suburb, Derrick resolves to turn capture it. Surely if he can find a way to tame this beast, he?ll be able to stop everything at home from spiraling towards disaster? Panther is a bold and emotionally powerful novel that deals candidly with the effects of depression on those who suffer from it, and those who suffer alongside them.

Panther

A beginner's guide to home repair and maintenance wittily explains everything from the use of drywall screws, to strategies for kitchen renovation, to resolving the great latex versus oil paint debate. Reprint.

The Thinking Person's Guide to How a House Works

The Walls Around Us

Cristina Pividori

(Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Beyond Post-Memory is an exploration of war narratives through the lens of postmemory, offering a critical re-evaluation of how contemporary literature and cultural products reshape our understanding of past conflicts. This volume presents a rich tapestry of perspectives, drawing from an array of conflicts and incorporating insights from international experts across various disciplines, including contemporary literature, film studies, visual arts, and cultural studies. It critically builds upon and extends Marianne Hirsch's concept of postmemory, engaging with complex themes like the ethical dimensions of war writing, the authenticity of representations, and the creative power of art in reimagining traumatic events. This study not only challenges traditional boundaries in war literature and memory studies but also resonates with contemporary concerns about societal engagement with violent pasts, making it a significant addition to scholarly discourse and essential reading for those interested in the intersection of history, memory, and literature.

Beyond Post-Memory

(Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Pete Moore

Steven A. Koehler

David L. Jones

100 international criminal cases demonstrating clearly how advances in forensics have helped solve crimes. The book has a detailed introduction to the science of forensics and its different specialisms. Diagrams illustrate forensic techniques and there is also a comprehensive forensic glossary.

How Forensics Solved 50 "perfect" Murders

Jumped, Fell, Or Pushed?

About Europe Restructured: The Euro Zone Crisis and Its Aftermath This is not a book advocating British withdrawal from Europe: In Europe Restructured David Owen lays out a blueprint for a new structure where those countries that may wish to be part of a more integrated EU/eurozone are facilitated in doing so, while those who may only want a Single Market/European Community are free to do so. He suggests building on the Single Market European Economic Area of 30 states including Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein and inviting Turkey to join. This, with Croatia joining the EU next year, would make 32 countries and some others later. Europe Restructured recounts the key historical events in Britain's equivocal relationship with the Common Market, European Community, and now Union, from 1962-2012 and considers how Britain's place in the EU affects her other global foreign and defence relationships, in particular with the United States. All this leads David Owen to the conclusion that urgently in 2013, or more likely in 2015-2016, a referendum will have to be held in the UK. He wants a clear referendum choice in the UK. ";The eurozone crisis has exposed three stresses. First, monetary union cannot work well without political union, which requires, second, a solution to Europe's democratic deficit. That leads, third, to the inevitable conclusion that this country will turn its back on Europe. Lord Owen suggests a way through, in which Britain can remain part of a renewed single market without submitting to thedemand to be part of a single government. The Times leader "Are we still a self-governing nation? How long is the list of things that British Governments cannot do unless they have permission from Brussels or the blessing of the European Courts? Even without joining the eurozone, is our independence slipping away? Asking these questions is one of the merits of Lord Owen's new book, Europe Restructured. The Eurozone Crisis and its Aftermath. Lord Owen has shown us a way forward." - Andreas Whittam Smith, The Independent.

The Eurozone Crisis and Its Aftermath

Europe Restructured?

Political leaders' ill-conceived decisions are often connected to their own illness, claims David Owen in this revealing new book. IN SICKNESS AND IN POWER looks at illness in heads of government 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 cognitive faculties functioned well, but who developed a hubristic syndrome that powerfully affected their performance and their actions. As we learn here, they suffer a loss of capacity and become excessively self-confident and contemptuous of advice that runs counter to what they believe, or sometimes of any advice at all. Long fascinated with the inter-relationship between politics and medicine, David Owen uses his deep knowledge of both to look at sickness in political leaders. Owen expertly scrutinises such diverse political personalities as Sir Anthony Eden at the time of Suez in 1956; John F. Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961; the last Shah of Iran; and President Mitterrand of France who suffered from prostate cancer. The author also devotes a chapter to the hubristic behaviour and relationship between President Bush and Prime Minister Blair. The book ends by outlining some of the safeguards that society needs to address as a consequence of illness in heads of government.

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