Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods: William Niven's Life of ...
Author: Robert Sigfrid Wicks Author: Roland H. Harrison Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 301.092 EAN: 9780896724143 ISBN: 089672414X Number Of Pages: 318 Publication Date: 1999-11 [... more]
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The Martian Race
From Amazon.com: Esteemed Mars guru Bob Zubrin calls The Martian Race "one of the finest novels about human exploration of the Red Planet ever written. "But then again, Bob is a character in the book (albeit in the briefest of cameos), so what [... more]
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Balanced Scorecard: Step-by-Step for Government and ...
Good & Practical Book on Balanced Scorecard: I've read most of the literature on the Balanced Scorecard and the previous books by Norton & Kaplan and Paul Niven himself. Being a Management Consultant of 15 years, I worked with numerous for-profit [... more]
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The Ice Master
From Amazon.com: Eighty-five years after a famous but ill-equipped Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913 had sacrificed 16 lives, some artifacts appeared on an Internet auction site. They had originated at a "ghost camp," discovered in 1924, where [... more]
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Bring on the Empty Horses CD
Solid Gold!: There is something about the way in which David Niven writes about other people where you just know they would approve. David Niven always seemed to play the good guy, the hero, the sort of person to whom we would all wish to aspire. Writing [... more]
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Book of Heroic Failures
The things people do!: Next to David Niven's 'The Moon's a Balloon' this is the funniest book I have ever read. Bought it years ago and lent it to a friend. Never seen since but hope to get another copy. An absolute must for the bookshelves of those with [... more]
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Look To Windward
Stylish and exciting, if not necessarily original: Look to Windward is the seventh book in Banks' science fiction universe based on a utopian society of advanced artificial intelligences and the humans (and other organic life forms) that originally [... more]
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Martian Race
From Amazon.com: Esteemed Mars guru Bob Zubrin calls The Martian Race "one of the finest novels about human exploration of the Red Planet ever written. "But then again, Bob is a character in the book (albeit in the briefest of cameos), so what [... more]
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Flatlander
Three excellent SF short stories, two lackluster duds: FLATLANDER is a collection of the five "Gil the Arm" short stories that Larry Niven has written between the late sixties and today. Set in the 2120s, these stories chronicle the adventures [... more]
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Ringworld's Children
Wonderful world-building, weak story/characters: 250-year-old Louis Wu awakens as a young-man after an extensive stay in a nanotechnology healing chamber to find that the situation on Ringworld is not good. Although the new protector, Tunesmith, is doing [... more]
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Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step: Maximizing Performance ...
How to Achieve and Then Sustain Superior Performance: It is noteworthy that Robert S. Kaplan wrote the Foreword to this book. He and David P. Cohen are the co-authors of three other books on this important subject: The Balanced Scorecard: Translating [... more]
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Man Kzin Wars VIII
Excellent addition to the series.: For those unfamiliar with the Man-Kzin Wars series, or Kzinti in general, the Kzin are an alien race created by Larry Niven, a spacefaring race evolved from carnivorous hunting cats instead of omnivorous monkeys. They [... more]
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