Niven: 159 books
The Moon Maze Game
A Dream Park Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The Year: 2085. Humanity has spread throughout the solar system. A stable lunar colony is agitating for independence. Lunar tourism is on the rise...
Against this background, professional "Close Protection" specialist Scotty Griffin, fresh off a disastrous assignment, is offered the...
by Larry Niven, Brenda Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society...
Straight White Male
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
From the bestselling author of Kill Your Friends, a wildly funny look at the midlife crisis of a loveable rogue. “A high-octane novel of excess” (Ian Rankin).
Irish novelist Kennedy Marr is a first rate bad boy. When he is not earning a fortune as one of Hollywood’s most sought after scriptwriters,...
Kill Your Friends
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
AS the twentieth century breathes its very last, with Britpop at its zenith, twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through London’s music industry. Blithely crisscrossing the globe in search of the next megahit—fueled by greed and inhuman quantities of...
by Niven Busch
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Three marines, one seaman, and a raider scout are thrown together on their last patrol and, bound by hardship and tragedy, become the Group; a brotherhood that is their only home and sets the standard by which they live. When they return to Los Angeles in 1943, they are dedicated to staying...
Velva Jean Learns to Fly
Book 2 in the Velva Jean series
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
**After Pearl Harbor and the start of World War II, fiercely independent heroine Velva Jean enlists, gets her wings, risks her life—and her heart in this bold and inspiring novel from the author of the New York Times bestsellers *Holding Up the Universe *and All the Bright Places (soon to...
Facing the Nazi Past
United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2001
Facing the Nazi Past examines how the communist East viewed the events of these years very differently from West Germany during the Cold War. Following the unification of Germany, these contrasting memories of the Third Reich have contributed to a new perspective on this period of German history.
Facing...
100 Simple Secrets of Healthy People
What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use it
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The Simple Science of a Healthy Life
From fitness to diets to emotional health and longevity, what do people who feel and look healthy do differently than those who are overtired, depressed, or out of shape? Every day we face an avalanche of studies and statistics that tell us what we should...
Objectives and Key Results
Driving Focus, Alignment, and Engagement with OKRs
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Everything you need to implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) effectively
Objectives and Key Results is the first full-fledged reference guide on Objectives and Key Results, a critical thinking framework designed to help organizations create value through focus, alignment, and better communication....
Balanced Scorecard
Step-by-Step for Government and Nonprofit Agencies
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
This book provides an easy-to-follow roadmap for successfully implementing the Balanced Scorecard methodology in small- and medium-sized companies. Building on the success of the first edition, the Second Edition includes new cases based on the author's experience implementing the balanced scorecard...
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Language: Chinese
Release Date: April 2, 2019
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Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction
A Century of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
100 Simple Secrets of the Best Half of Life
What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Practical advice on how to thrive in the second half of your life, based on scientific studies. The sixth book in the bestselling 100 Simple Secrets series.
What do people who relish the second half of their lives do differently than those who dread getting older? Sociologists, therapists and...
The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People
What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Scientists and academics have spent entire careers investigating what makes people happy. But hidden in obscure scholarly journals and reports, their research is all too often inaccessible to ordinary people. Now the bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series distills the scientific findings...