Ben: 3397 books

Learn the key standards—iBeacon, Eddystone, Bluetooth 4.0, and AltBeacon—and how they work with other proximity technologies. Then build your understanding of the proximity framework and how to identify and deploy the best solutions for your own business, institutional, or consulting needs. Proximity...

From founder Ben Uyeda of Homemade-Modern.com comes a collection of 30 DIY projects to furnish your home and outdoor space made from durable, recycled materials-metal, wood, and concrete. Focused on sustainable pieces with a high-end feel, this book is filled with projects that are both beautiful...

Bail enforcement is an occupation that is both challenging and rewarding. It is about the task of finding, apprehending and delivering back to jail “wanted” men and women. The element of crime makes this a potentially dangerous profession. The very nature of the business is taking people who have...

Time-traveling to the end of the Cretaceous Period where the Earth is in the grip of the dinosaurs, Orion and the love of his life must save the Creators—and the universe—from the satanic reptilian leader of the saurians.Praise for the Orion Saga"Nonstop action and mind-bending concepts...

Provocative, gripping, startling: bestselling author Ben Bova delivers a knockout read with his trademark blend of cutting edge science and unrelenting suspense…. Some see stem-cell research as mankind's greatest scientific breakthrough. Others see a blasphemous attempt to play God. Suddenly,...

In novels like Mars and Moonbase, and Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, as well as Privateers, The Precipice, and The Rock Rats, Ben Bova has been telling the stories of the wars and rivalries, the outsize individuals, public crusades, and private passions that will drive us as we expand into the Solar...

An indispensible tool for all science fiction writers, Space Travel explains the science you need to help you make your fiction plausible. You'll engineer your rockets with accurate technical data. Show your characters' physical responses to weightlessness. Know the environment of space,...

A stinging SFnal, futuristic satire on the TV industry, based on Ben's and Harlan Ellison's involvement in a real TV series, THE STARLOST. (Bova dedicates the novel to "Cordwainer Bird", the pen name Harlan Ellison uses when he does not want to be associated with a television or film...

The trouble with great ideas is that someone is sure to expend enormous effort and ingenuity figuring out how to louse them up. Ben Bova weaves a tale of wonder and science fiction splendor with one of his many masterpieces, The Dueling Machine!

Ben Bova's universe is always more than the sum of its parts...In TWICE SEVEN,"Conspiracy Theory" reveals the startling truth about those so-called Martian canals and a patch of New Mexico know as Roswell.In "Appointment in Sinai," the technology of virtual telepresence allows...

A practical, down-to-earth guide to Vasubandhu's classic work "Thirty Verses of Consciousness Only" that can transform modern life and change how you see the world. In this down-to-earth book, Ben Connelly sure-handedly guides us through the intricacies of Yogacara and the richness of the “Thirty...

In thirteen stories full of rope burns and brush scratches, the author of the classic Horse Tradin’ tells of the days when he made a specialty of catching wild cows. Ben K. Green calls himself a “stove-up old cowboy,” and readers of this book will learn soon enough where the broken bones...

What I learned about dieting while trying a murder case was completely by accident but led me to discover how I could maintain my weight and still enjoy the foods that I love. This method allowed me to enjoy things that most diets forbid and was super easy to do. The fact that the discovery...

Comprising more than twelve million people and renowned for their resistance to Brahminical values, the Virasaivas are a vibrant and unorthodox religious community with a provocative socio-political voice. The Virasaiva tradition has produced a vast and original body of literature, composed mostly...