Gavin: 705 books

When MSS Officer Kristen Stahl is seriously injured in the Battle of Allentown Spaceport the stability of her old life is thrown upside down. Along with her injuries she has to cope with a failing relationship and the possibility there is no longer a place for her in her beloved Martian Security Service. An...

Why Am I So Clever? Dr Daniel Kostovich, head of R&D at Venkdt Mars Corp and Special Adviser to the MSS, has always been a smart cookie. When he starts speculating on the provenance of his abilities he finds more questions than answers. As various possible solutions come and go Kostovich...

The date is 400 BC. Britain is a patchwork of tribes and kingdoms, united half a century ago by Dumnoualos, king of Dumnonia, whose armies brought peace to a land riven by war. But now the High King is dead, and he leaves two sons, Brennos and Belinos, who are both supported for the succession by...

The House of Skulls and other stories. Featuring: When the Life-Giver Dies - a pagan god, a virgin sacrifice; just another night's work for Walwain the Pict. Or is it? The Last of the Ogres - a perfect, gentle knight grows up at last. Castle of the Blood Visage - Viking...

Mars. 2368. Eva Aucoin, sheriff, is already six bodies and zero clues into a murder investigation when the post-human Authority sends one of its agents in search of answers. With the colony's inhabitants in more danger than they ever were from a single murderer, Eva quickly realises she and Authority may be looking for answers to very different questions.

This digital publication accompanies the exhibition Making is Thinking that took place at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (23 January – 1 May 2011). The publication features a historical perspective on craft by Alice Motard; a short story by Yoshiko Nagai, inspired by Teppei Kaneuji’s...

In 1980-81, 43 babies died at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children from a supposed digoxin overdose. Serial murder was suspected, leading to the arrest of nurse Susan Nelles. In order to clear Nelles's name, an investigation was launched to find an alternate explanation. No one on the Grange...

Without the Thames, there would be no London or England. From earliest times, the city's needs--whether for stone, gold, or coal, for hay to feed livestock or food, wine and spices for human beings--were supplied from the river, as the fierce tides brought ships upstream or carried them down again....

How do the intellectual origins and historical background of western and other theories of development affect their relevance to contemporary Third-World conditions? This is the central question behind Gavin Kitching’s examination of ‘development studies’, first published in 1982, from its origins...

The strong do not always survive but those who plan well usually do, despite how strong of weak they are. Patience is what you need to be successful. You need to pace yourself and do what needs to be done to survive. By starting now you may just survive another month. Once you know you have all that...

When Sydney Observed was first published in 1965 (under the title Sydney), and illustrated throughout with the striking photographs of Quintin F. Davis, it won instant and rapturous praise from reviewers across Australia and beyond.Within the space of a few years it came to be regarded as the best single...

Crumbling business models mean news media structures must change. Gavin Ellis explores the past and present use of newspaper trusts – drawing on case studies such as the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Pulitzer Prize winning Tampa Bay Times – to make the case for a form of ownership dedicated to sustaining high quality journalism.

This is an A-Z of seamanship skills for multihull sailors. There are many textbooks on the market which detail general seamanship principles. This is not one of them. Multihull Seamanship is about sea-going catamarans and trimarans and the skills needed to understand and enjoy them to their utmost....

Have you ever wanted to change the world? Authors Gavin and Anne Calver examine our culture and consider where we stand as the Church within it. Drawing on the narrative of Moses, they show how we can be Game Changers. The book is presented in five, provoking sections: - Encounter: like Moses at the...