Books with author Ben Bowen

Cale is a young man living in Utah with his artificially intelligent, technologically advanced home. He owns a multi-national, multi-billion dollar company. But that doesn't matter to him. At 19, with both parents dead, there isn't much left for him to care about anymore.He not only struggles with his father's recent death and his horrible feelings of loneliness, not to mention to insecurities of any normal young man, but must also solve the riddles surrounding these bizarre dreams.

Cale is a young man living in Utah with his artificially intelligent, ghighly technologically advanced home. He owns a multi-national, multi-billion dollar company. But that doesn't matter to him. At 19, with both parents dead, there isn't much left for him to care about anymore.He not only struggles with his father's recent dath and his horrible feelings of loneliness, not to mention to insecurities of any normal young man, but must also solve the riddles surrounding these bizzare dreams.

Is your study routine in need of a complete transformation?Note: This is a short book of roughly 18,000 words.Study skills are an important part of being a student. Despite this, some schools and academic institutions don't spend much time teaching them, or skip over them entirely because they expect you to already know how to study by the time you enrol.If you feel lost when it comes to planning your study routine, or think you need help developing your study techniques, then this guide is for you.Topics covered in this book include:How to start your course on the right foot, while you are still excited and haven’t gotten buried under too much work.How to recover if you are already part way through the course, but due to mitigating circumstances you haven’t been able to start the work yet or are at risk of failing.Studying and revision methods for different learning styles.General study skills that are also great practical skills that will make your life and career easier.The surprising reason people leave a lot of points on the table during an exam.How to ask academic staff questions when you need their help, without “sounding stupid” or whatever similar fear is stopping you from approaching them.

In this companion to Gathering: A Northwoods Counting Book Betsy Bowen again captures the vibrant magic in each northwoods day through effortless prose and colorful woodcuts. While the canoe waits beneath the heavy snow and the river freezes over, bears turn in for long winter naps and people spend time reading by the fire or bundled up in layers. But when spring comes, it’s time for kayaking, fishing, and listening to the quiet pond sounds of the new season. All of this and more is celebrated in Bowen’s warm and unusual alphabet book that introduces children to the cyclical rhythms of life in our country’s northern states.

After a fire damages Windsor Castle, the Queen of England finds a book behind a burnt wall. When she learns that she must find a magical cat to save the British throne, she finds him in a towering castle full of little boys who make the world's best chocolate chip cookies. Unfortunately, another European monarch has also claimed the cat to save his throne. But before the boys can decide which monarch gets the cat, the Queen's fiery nemesis Blue Fyre appears, looking to make her into his next royal bonfire.

In the northwoods, most of the year is spent preparing for the longest and most demanding season: winter. Families of people and animals alike begin their gathering for the cold months as early as the start of spring. Much needs to be done - planting and gardening, fishing and berry picking, chopping and piling wood, harvesting wild rice, and searching for warm boots and socks. Like the firewood and jarred rhubarb, summer memories are stored so that stargazing and fireflies are remembered on the coldest of winter days. In this companion to her memorable debut, Antler, Bear, Canoe: A Northwoods Alphabet Year, Betsy Bowen delights readers with a warm regard for the woods and its inhabitants. Gathering, illustrated anew in vibrantly colored woodcuts, is a celebration of the changing seasons laced with a special reverence for the magic and mystery of winter and the first big snow of the year.

Animal tracks always tell a story. You just have to recognize the signs. As you follow the marks an animal left behind, you get to know it: where it goes, what it likes to eat, when it runs, and why. There are secrets to be learned in those signs in the snow, mysteries to be explored in the mud along the river’s edge.Tracks in the Wild introduces young naturalists to the tracks of bears, wolves, moose, otters, and other wild animals—thirteen in all. Betsy Bowen’s signature woodcut prints accompany poetic passages about each animal, along with life-size representations of their footprints. As it reveals some of the wonders of the natural world, it will also inspire awe and respect for all the wild, elusive creatures that inhabit Minnesota’s northwoods.Winner of a 1994 Minnesota Book Award, Tracks in the Wild is perfect reading for a family to share before and after a trek through their own woods.