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Ringworld throne
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Larry Niven
The Hindmost, an alien puppeteer, is trying to escape the Ringworld, a vast artificial habitat that surrounds the sun. Despite being confined to the Ringworld, he monitors earth's inhabitants, including explorer Louis Wu. The Hindmost and Wu unite when they learn that they both are under the surveillance of another more elusive and enigmatic power.
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Ringworld Engineers
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Larry Niven
"This rousing sequel to the classic Ringworld continues the adventures of Louis Wu and Speaker-to-Animals on that fantastic planet."--School Library Journal An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
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100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It
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David Niven
What are the keys to success? Scientists have studied the traits, beliefs, and practices of successful people in all walks of life. But the answers they find wind up in stuffy academic journals aimed at other scientists. The 100 Simple Secrets Of Successful People takes the best and most important research results from other a thousand studies and ...
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Ringworld
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Larry Niven
The first title in Niven's sequence "Tales of Known Space," introducing the "Ringworld," an object one million miles wide and 600 million miles around, which spans a faraway star.
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Bring on the Empty Horses
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David Niven
David Niven recalls his time in Hollywood during its heyday. He recounts stories and anecdotes of the stars, producers, directors, tycoons and oddballs, many of whom were his friends.
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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
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Jennifer Niven
This chronicle of the aftermath of a 1913 shipwreck in Siberia tells of the struggle of 24 men, women, and children to survive in open nature and the intense rivalries that developed among them. Some of those marooned were eventually rescued after the captain left the camp and trekked across the wilderness for help.
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Lucifer's Hammer
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Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
The trade paper re-launch of a classic sci-fi bestseller from the authors of the acclaimed alien invasion epic "Footfall". For millionaire Tim Hamner, the comet he helped discover is a ticket to immortality. For filmmaker Harvey Randall, it's a chance to redeem a flagging career. And for astronauts John Baker and Rick Delanty, it's a second chance ...
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Gripping Hand
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Larry Niven
Two of the best known names in science fiction bring us the long-awaited sequel The Mote in God's Eye. In the universe of Kevin Renner, Horace Bury, Rod Blaine and Sally Fowler, 25 years have passed since the aliens known as the Moties were quarantined within the confines of their own solar system. Now, the Moties must breed--or die.
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Beowulf's Children
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Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
On Tau Ceti Four, the descendants of the original two hundred colonists fight to keep control of a land populated with beasts known as grendels.
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Legacy of Heorot
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Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
Light years from Earth, 200 men and women come to Tau Ceti Four and establish an agricultural colony on an island of gentle breezes and crystal rivers. But their new home holds a lethal secret--and soon the colonists are waging a bloody war against a terrifying enemy.
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Ringworld's Children
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Larry Niven
Larry Niven returns to his best-known set of works with this fourth installment of the Ringworld series, a hard SF saga set on a gigantic, artificial ring-shaped planet inhabited by trillions of humans and aliens. The Ringworld is being menaced by a fleet of squabbling spaceships who are anxious to plunder the Ringworld's secrets but may end up ...
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Moons a Balloon
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David Niven
This book takes readers back to David Niven's childhood days, his humiliating expulsion from school and to his army years and wartime service. After the war, he returned to America and there came his Hollywood success in films such as "Wuthering Heights" and "Around the World in 80 Days".
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Footfall
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Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
"NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN NIVEN AND POURNELLE.I LOVED IT!"--Tom ClancyThey first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star.The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go ...
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ADA Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
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Jennifer Niven
From the author of "The Ice Master" comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate uninhabited Arctic island in 1921.
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Escape from Hell
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Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
"Escape from Hell" is the long-awaited follow-up to Niven and Pournelle's classic science-fiction reimagining of Dante's "Inferno."
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Burning Tower
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Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Whandall Placehold was two years old when a lordkin - possessed by the firegod - burnt his city to the ground. Five years later the god entered another of the lordkin - and once again the city burned. But when the firegod attempted to master Whandall it discovered he was unlike the other lordkin, for Whandall resisted the urge to burn his city and ...
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The burning city
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Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
There was fire on Earth before the fire god came. There has always been fire.What the fire god, gave to mankind was madness ...They burned the city when Whandall Placehold was two. And then again when he was seven. The fire god possessed one of the lordkin, the lust for fire took hold and the burning began. Whandall was himself one of the lordkin, ...
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Mote in Gods Eye
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Larry Niven
Aliens - Moties - were first contacted in AD3017 in the region of space known as the Coalsack. The eponymous mote in his eye, which has winked out, much to the distress of pious Himmists, just might have been Motie laser light. It might even indicate the position of their home planet.
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100 Simple Secrets of Great Relationships: What Scientists Have Learned and
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David Niven
Drawing on the latest research and psychological studies, the author introduces one hundred simple, easy-to-follow keys to building a long-lasting and healthy relationship.
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Balanced Scorecard Step-By-Step for Government and Nonprofit Agencies
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Paul R Niven
The Balanced Scorecard is the leading methodology for implementing performance management systems and improving efficiency. Focusing directly on the public and not-for-profit sectors, this book helps these organizations overcome the unique challenges they face when implementing a Balanced Scorecard. Guides government and nonprofit organizations ...
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100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It
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David Niven
Based on scientific research and psychological studies of real people, these 100 practices, attitudes, and habits have been proven to transform a unhappy existence into a full and happy life. Experts have spent their careers investigating what makes people happy. While their methods are sound and their conclusions valuable, the results often ...
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Inferno
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Larry Niven
After being thrown out the window of his luxury apartment, science fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates of hell. As he struggles to escape, he's taken through new, puzzling, and outlandish versions of sin--recast for the present day.
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An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
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Ivan Morton Niven
This undergraduate textbook describes the computational aspects of number theory, such as techniques of factoring. Problems of varying difficulty are used throughout the text to aid comprehension.
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Legacy of Heorot: Legacy of Heorot
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Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
Bestselling science-fiction superstars Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle combine their talents with those of rising young author Steven Barnes in an extraordinary adventure of humankind's first outpost in the farthest reaches of space. 5 maps.
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Kill Your Friends
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John Niven
A vicious, black-hearted howl of a book . . . A realistic portrait of the music industry, doing for it what "The Player" did for Hollywood. . . . Cripplingly funny in the way that only the very darkest comedy can be.--Chris Power, "The Times" (London).
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