Robert Gibson: 21 books

In the grand tradition of the Golden Age of Science Fiction where we wondered at the worlds of HG Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs, rising star Robert Gibson brings us this tale of the planet Mercury and a teenager mysteriously transported there.Hugh Dent awakes to find himself in an alien body...

For over half a century, Robert Gibson has published extensively on Alain Fournier's life and work and is now acknowledged as the leading authority on this subject in the English-speaking world. His previous book on Fournier, The Land Without a Name, was widely praised. In the thirty years since this...

Republished for the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, this new edition of Best of Enemies gives an entertaining and perceptive overview of Anglo-French relation. Updated to include the Anglo-French disagreements over the second Gulf War, this is an extensively revised edition of a book that was widely...

After an experiment into telekinesis and the power of the mind, Duncan Wemyss finds himself transported to a terrifying new world. A planet with an absolute “up” and “down”, a place where lower latitudes tilt ever more wildly towards an infinite drop into the abyss of deep space.Topland,...

The Fair Dinkum Economy offers an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand economic guide for everyone. It explores the recent decline in the living standards of developed countries and negative effects of the swing in the balance of power to the Asian and Indian regions. Author Robert Gibson maintains that...

This book shows you how to use Swing to add a GUI to your Jython scripts, with an emphasis on the WebSphere Application Server wsadmin utility. In fact, we're going to teach you Swing using Jython, and we're going to do it in a way that, hopefully, that makes your scripts easier for people to use, more robust, more understandable, and therefore easier to maintain.

Why Are There Women In Universe 6?It’s a simpler, more basic universe than ours. Less evolution, fewer people, rarer energy.Where people are born from rock – although love (the ‘Great Complication’) prefigures our Universe 7.Man Of The WorldBored aristocrat Midax Rale, on a quest for purpose...

His genius for adaptation gives recent immigrant Duncan Wemyss the chance to win some security even in the fantastic environment Down Under, where the sky gapes below you and the ground is overhead. But the Antipodeans are restless and ambitious. They are searching for a leader to rescue them...

The Slant brought Duncan Wemyss down from Kroth’s flat North Pole, as far south as Latitude 60, Slope 30 degrees, where he fought the defensive battle that saved Topland.From that point The Drop takes him yet further down through lands and cultures of increasing tilt, to rescue captives and spy...

An updated Lisa Marie Presley interpretation. This book is your ultimate resource for Lisa Marie Presley. Here you will find the most up-to-date 134 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about...

A Summer Special Magazine of Science Fiction Join us on the beach with your plutonium powered bucket and spade. We have some great new stories from great writers such as Gary Gibson and Holly Schofield;  interviews with Ken MacLeod and Tricia Sullivan; a new column by BSFA award...

A brand new collection of best practices for planning, organizing, and managing high-value supply chains… 8 authoritative books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!   8 authoritative books help you systematically plan, manage, and optimize any supply chain, in any environment...

This fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and social care. It outlines the theories that underpin social care practice, the main assessment...

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