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  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF HOUSING IN SCOTLAND
    DOUGLAS NIVEN
    Originally published in 1979, this volume begins with an historical summary of housing development in Scotland. Scottish urban housing has always followed a unique and distinctive pattern from the rest of the UK, resembling more closely the flatted developments of Continental Europe. The book compares the policies and programmes of development in EU countries and Scandinavia. T...

    $920.00

  • HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN
    CATHERINE NIVEN / DOUG CARROLL
    First Published in 1993. Since health psychology is concerned with the universal values of life and death, well­being and suffering, it might be expected that its researchers would be keen to examine both male and female experiences of these phenomena. In practice, however, health psychology has followed health research in adopting a largely male perspective, both in its genera...

    $740.00

  • PSYCHOLOGICAL CARE FOR FAMILIES
    CATHERINE A. NIVEN
    Psychological Care for Families: Before, During and After Birth presents the significance of psychological care and the positive effect on outcomes when it is done well. This book provides an understanding of the emotional needs of families. Organized into six chapters, this book begins with an overview of the improvements in outcomes that result from increased input by midwiv...

    $970.00

  • THE GOLIATH STONE
    LARRY NIVEN / MATTHEW JOSEPH HARRINGTON
    Scientists must stop nanites from driving an asteroid into Earth in this "brilliantly crafted . . . edge-of-the-seat thriller" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Twenty-five years ago, Doctor Toby Glyer and William Connors made a revolutionary breakthrough in nanotechnology. Their controversial nanites were capable of everything from miracle cures for the terminally ill to AI f...

    $251.00

  • THORNTON WILDER
    PENELOPE NIVEN
    The definitive biography of the great American playwright: a "fine-grained, sympathetic portrait" with a foreword by Edward Albee ( The New York Times). Thornton Wilder—three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of such enduring stage works as  Our Town and  The Skin of Our Teeth, and beloved novels like  Bridge of San Luis Ray and  Theophilus North—was much more than a pivotal ...

    $229.00

  • STARS AND GODS
    LARRY NIVEN
    A stellar collection of stories, essays, and more from an award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction, "a writer of supreme talent" (Tom Clancy). "[Niven's] impressive body of work is given a stunning showcase in this hefty volume. . . . This is an excellent primer for readers wanting to learn more about Niven's work." — Publishers Weekly Larry Niven is the New York Times–bes...

    $251.00

  • THE AMATEURS
    JOHN NIVEN
    Gary Irvine's wife refuses to sleep with him, so he pursues an even stingier mistress: golf. But despite his spending unconscionable amounts of time and money, his game is wretched. Until the day he takes a perfect swing . . . and then everything goes black. After waking up from a coma a few weeks later, with a golf-ball-sized dent in his temple, Gary discovers that his last pe...

    $229.00

  • BUILDING HARLEQUIN'S MOON
    LARRY NIVEN / BRENDA COOPER
    The Hugo Award–winning author reunites with his acclaimed coauthor in "a multi-generational, star-spanning epic with intriguing, fast-paced action" ( New York Times– bestselling author Brian Herbert). Fleeing a solar system overrun by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, the crew of the starship John Glenn set course for the pristine planet Ymir. But their plan to terraform Ymi...

    $274.00

  • FACING THE NAZI PAST
    BILL NIVEN
    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 the Nazi Past explores the developments and debates that were symptomatic o...

    $1,160.00

  • DIVIDING AND UNITING GERMANY
    BILL NIVEN / J. K. A. THOMANECK
    A concise introduction to the process which led to the division of Germany in 1949, and its unification in 1990, this book also explores the economic, social and cultural divisions between and east and west, which still exist in post-unification Germany. Dividing and Uniting Germany covers all important aspects of the subject including: the role of the allies in the post-war di...

    $1,100.00

  • CUANDO FUIMOS MONSTRUOS
    JENNIFER NIVEN
    Todos podemos ser monstruos...Cuando ocho estudiantes son seleccionados para un prestigioso curso de narrativa inmersiva, dictado por la enigmática actriz y escritora Meredith Graffan, jamás esperan cometer un crimen. El premio del curso es la fama. Sin embargo, los métodos creativos de Graffam son muy poco ortodoxos: saltar de acantilados al mar helado, caminar a ciegas entre ...
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    $349.00

  • CYBERNETIC SYSTEM DESIGN FOR A COMPLEX WORLD
    GORDON NIVEN / DAVID CAPEWELL
    Cybernetic System Design for a Complex World has profound implications for leaders and decision-makers in any sector struggling to achieve clarity and agency in today’s complex and dynamic world. This book provides the means to tailor organisations, capabilities, and technologies to their specific operating environments, whether simple or complex. By introducing a new way of th...

    $960.00

  • AQUÍ EMPIEZA TODO
    NIVEN JENNIFER
    Todo el mundo cree conocer a Libby, aunque nadie se ha detenido a pensar en cómo es ella realmente, más alla de su aspecto y de su peso. También todos creen conocer a Jack, ese chico encantador que oculta un profundo secreto. Cuando una cruel jugarreta los enfrenta, los dos van a descubrir que cuanto más tiempo pasan juntos, menos solos se sienten. Son dos adolescentes rotos: d...
    Agotado

    $348.00

  • STRAIGHT WHITE MALE
    JOHN NIVEN
    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, he is drinking, insulting, and philandering his way through Los Angeles, 'succ...

    $179.00

  • SHIPSTAR
    GREGORY BENFORD / LARRY NIVEN
    The dramatic sequel to Larry Niven and Gregory Benford's New York Times bestselling novel, Bowl of Heaven Science fiction masters Larry Niven ( Ringworld) and Gregory Benford ( Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped st...

    $314.00

  • BETRAYER OF WORLDS
    LARRY NIVEN / EDWARD M. LERNER
    Fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the cowardly Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds have---just barely---survived. They've stumbled from one crisis to the next: The rebellion of their human slaves. The relentless questing of the species of Known Space. The spectacular rise of the starfish-like Gw'oth. The onslaught of the genocidal Pak. Catastrophe looms a...

    $274.00

  • DESTROYER OF WORLDS
    LARRY NIVEN / EDWARD M. LERNER
    Worlds closer to the galatic core than Known Space are --or were--home to intelligent speciers. Some learned of the core explosion in time to flee. Destroyer of Worlds opens in 2670, ten years after Juggler of Worlds closes; with refugee species fleeing in an armada of ramscoops in the direction of the Fleet of Worlds. The onrushing aliens are recognized as a threat; they have ...

    $274.00

  • THE DRACO TAVERN
    LARRY NIVEN
    The #1 New York Times–bestselling author presents twenty-six tales and vignettes from this interplanetary gathering place: "A must for Nivenites" ( Booklist). When a tremendous spacecraft took orbit around the Earth's moon and began sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport at Mount Forel in Siberia. Thei...

    $251.00

  • SATURN'S RACE
    LARRY NIVEN / STEVEN BARNES
    The bestselling coauthors of Beowulf's Children "have produced another compulsively readable, immensely enjoyable near-future yarn" ( Publishers Weekly). The future is a strange and dangerous place. Chaz Kato can testify to that. He is a citizen of Xanudu, a city-sized artificial island populated by some of the wealthiest men and women on future Earth. A place filled with hidde...

    $251.00

  • RAINBOW MARS
    LARRY NIVEN
    A "brilliantly conceived, funny" story cycle by the New York Times–bestselling author about a time-traveler's quest to repopulate a far-future Earth ( Kirkus Reviews). Hanville Svetz was born into a future earth that matches the sorriest predictions of Greenpeace. With most of Earth's original species extinct, Svetz travels back and forth in time retrieving them. And when he le...

    $251.00

  • VIOLET Y FINCH
    NIVEN JENNIFER
    Violet está rota. Finch está roto. ¿Pueden dos mitades rotas reconstruirse? Esta es la historia de una chica que aprende a vivir de un chico que pretende morir; de dos jóvenes que se encuentran y dejan de contar los días para empezar a vivirlos. Si te emocionaste con Bajo la misma estrella, la historia de amor de Violet y Finch te llegará al corazón. ...
    Agotado

    $298.00

  • VIOLET Y FINCH
    NIVEN JENNIFER
    Violet está rota. Finch está roto.¿Pueden dos mitades rotas reconstruirse?Esta es la historia de una chica que aprende a vivir de un chico que pretende morir; de dos jóvenes que se encuentran y dejan de contar los días para empezar a vivirlos. Si te emocionaste con Bajo la misma estrella, la historia de amor de Violet y Finch te llegará al corazón. Violet está rota. Finch está ...
    Agotado

    $398.00

  • VIOLET Y FINCH NUEVA PRESENTACIÓN
    NIVEN JENNIFER
    Violet está rota. Finch está roto. ¿Pueden dos mitades rotas reconstruirse?Esta es la historia de una chica que aprende a vivir de un chico que pretende morir; de dos jóvenes que se encuentran y dejan de contar los días para empezar a vivirlos. ...
    Agotado

    $318.00

  • PSICOLOGIA EN ENFERMERIA
    NIVEN
    Agotado

    $495.00