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2009
| A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future. In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York, New York. 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....[more] |
2006
| David Owen, author of The Walls Around Us, recounts his projects -- from catching the home improvement bug while watching workmen replacing a leaky roof to his first tentative foray into DIY. As his skill grows, so does his confidence: replacing a broken light switch turns into wiring an entire room, making bookcases is followed by building an office. Soon he takes the big leap from renovation to building a new house -- a weekend cabin a mere six miles from his home -- from the ground up. The ex....[more] |
2009
| 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-tech inventions in that its central process was conceived by a single person. This book tells the story of the machine nobody thought we needed but now we can¿t live without. Carlson made his discovery in solitude in the Great Depression. He offered his big idea to 2 dozen major corp. -- among them IBM, RCA, and GE -- all of w....[more] |
2003
| The game of golf as it is played by happy hackers and weekend warriors everywhereMost of us may dream about playing golf like Woods, Nicklaus, and Palmer, but the game they've got probably doesn't look much like the one we play. In Hit and Hope, Owen brings together entertaining essays on the mundane aspects of the game and how we approach it. Funny, candid, and thoughtful, this book offers the truest commentary on how and why the rest of us play golf, finding nobility and silliness in our endle....[more] |
1999
| The Masters. For any golf fan, the words evoke the immortal greats of the game and their quest for the most prized trophy of all -- the green jacket of Augusta National Golf Club.But behind the legendary links and timeless traditions is one of the most overlooked and misunderstood figures in the history of the Masters and Augusta National: Clifford Roberts, the club's chairman from its founding in 1931 until shortly before his death in 1977. Roberts' meticulous attention to detail, his firm auth....[more] |
2001
| Earl Woods, the father of young ¿Tiger¿ Woods, was widely ridiculed in 1996 when, in an article anointing his son as ¿Sports Illustrated¿s Sportsman of the Year, he likened Tiger¿s potential impact to that of a messiah. This unseemly proclamation appeared to embody all the worst elements of the sports-parent who seeks financial windfall and personal validation by pushing his child to excel in sports. Not since the dawn of competitive tournament golf has anyone distanced himself from the rest of....[more] |
1999
| None of the Above demystifies the development of the SAT and offers practical strategies on how to beat the test. |
1999
| It's finally here: golf for the office! No more Monday-to-Friday, 9-to-5 angst. No more interminably dreary Februarys. No more staring out the window on the first warm days of Spring, aching to be somewhere else. Now, hours once wasted planning, managing, manufacturing, selling, marketing, lawyering, and accounting can be put to productive use in putting, driving, and chipping. From how to set up a course in the conference room to facing a stairwell hazard--over or down?--The Complete Office Gol....[more] |
1996
| "Owen is the McPhee of Sheetrock, the Gibbon of grouting, the Proust of paint." --Esquire Twelve years ago, David Owen and his family moved from an apartment in New York City to a two-hundred-year-old house in a small town in rural Connecticut. Life under a leaky roof has not only made Owen handy with a reciprocating saw but has shown him why it isn't necessarily foolish to keep a broken refrigerator in the bathroom. In Around the House, Owen explains the usefulness of a noisy furnace (you know ....[more] |
1997
| A literary anthology devoted to the enormously popular sport of golf, this handsome collection of stories and articles features writings by Dan Jenkins, Thomas Boswell, Herbert Warren Wind, John Updike, George Plimpton, John Feinstein, Ring Lardner, P.G. Wodehouse, and many others. |
2005
| A lone inventor and the story of how one of the most revolutionary inventions of the twentieth century almost didn't happen.Introduced in 1960, the first plain-paper office copier is unusual among major high-technology inventions in that its central process was conceived by a single person. Chester Carlson grew up in unspeakable poverty, worked his way through junior college and the California Institute of Technology, and made his discovery in solitude in the depths of the Great Depression. He o....[more] |
2000
| The most comprehensive book ever published on achieving golf's major scoring milestone.Legendary pro and NBC-TV commentator Johnny Miller shares his wisdom and shot-making skills to help players of all ages and abilities break through to the next level of performance. Clear text and easy-to-follow illustrations make Johnny's practical instruction easy to grasp and to use.The book examines the mental game, course management, and lessons from experienced pros; it covers everything from stance and ....[more] |
1996
| My Usual Game chronicles David Owen's funny and enlightening quest to come to terms with a game that has frustrated and fascinated him ever since he was a child. Follow Owen as he rescues his swing at golf school, spends a week with the inventor of the modern golf club, nearly wins a three-day Pro-Am at a tournament on the PGA Tour, travels with three golf-crazed friends to tacky Myrtle Beach, follows Fred Co....[more] |
1995
| Published just in time for Father's Day, this engagingly witty discourse takes readers along on Owen's golfing adventures--playing the Masters course in Augusta, touring Ireland's greatest greens, meeting the sport's real millionaires (the equipment manufacturers), and chatting with local duffers. Line drawings. |
1988
| Anyone who's ever quailed at the thought of buying a two-by-four or suspected that his (or her) dwelling is breaking down out of spite will be charmed, educated and entertained by this delightful history and how-to of the house. |
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