David Owen

Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg--Chester Carlson and the

de David Owen

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Sheetrock & Shellac: A Thinking Person's Guide to the Art and Science of Home Improvement

de David Owen

In a world of extreme makeovers, this book is a thoughtful, adventure-filled, witty look at what the space we live in says about us, the pleasures of home renovation projects great and small, and how home renovation...

The First National Bank of Dad: The Best Way to Teach Kids About Money

de 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....

Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are theKeys to Sustainability

de David Owen

Read David Owen's posts on the Penguin Blog.

From the acclaimed New Yorker writer, a thought-provoking, innovative, and challenging new approach to protecting our environment.

Most Americans think of cities...

Maturity and Modernity: Nietzsche, Weber, Foucault and the Ambivalence of Reason

de David Owen

Maturity and Modernity is the first book to analyze Nietzsche, Weber and Foucault as a tradition of theorising and to chart the development of genealogy as a mode of critique. It provides clear accounts of the...

Foinavon: The Story of the Grand National's Biggest Upset

de David Owen

It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos extraordinary even by the Grand National's standards and won the...

Tasmanian Devil: A Unique and Threatened Animal

de David Owen & David Pemberton

A fascinating look at this most famous Australian of marsupials.

The Chosen One

de David Owen

Earl Woods, the father of young Eldrick "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...

The Conundrum

de David Owen

The Conundrum is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency and the real path to sustainability.

Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything...

My Usual Game

de David Owen

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...

Hit & Hope: How the Rest of Us Play Golf

de 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...