Russell's ebook Library
Introducing Economics: A Graphic Guide
David Orrell
Economics was described by the English economist Lionel Robbins in 1935 as 'the science of scarcity' but these days economics is everywhere, and it's never been more popular - as bestselling books such as Freakanomics attest.But what is economics rea...
Introducing Mathematics
Ziauddin Sardar and Jerry Ravetz and Borin van Loon
What is mathematics, and why is it such a mystery to so many people? Mathematics is the greatest creation of human intelligence. It affects us all. We depend on it in our daily lives, and yet many of the tools of mathematics, such as geometry, algebr...
Introducing Relativity: A Graphic Guide
Bruce Bassett
It is now more than a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity began to revolutionise our view of the universe. Beginning near the speed of light and proceeding to explorations of space-time and curved spaces, "Introducing ...
Introduction to AutoCAD 2011: 2D and 3D Design
Alf Yarwood
Alf Yarwood's best-selling text provides a comprehensive, step-by-step introduction to the latest release of AutoCAD. It covers all the requirements of City and Guilds courses in Computer Aided Design, Computer Aided Engineering and the drawing modul...
Introduction to Project Control
APM Planning SIG
In the project management world, project planning and project control go together like the proverbial horse and carriage. So it is not surprising that the APM Planning Specific Interest Group (SIG) has a special interest in project control and hence ...
Introduction to Project Planning
APM Planning SIG
When you are about to start a project, organise an event or launch a new product, good planning is vital. Good planning is the basis of all good projects. Planning, like many important processes, looks simple. But it isn’t. The evidence to prove that...
The Intruders
Michael Marshall
For ex-cop Jack Whalen, it all begins with a visitfrom a childhood friend, a lawyer who needs Jack's help. The family of a noted scientist has been senselessly, brutally murdered, and the scientist is nowhere to be found.But Jack has more pressing co...
Intrusion
Ken MacLeod
Imagine a near-future city, say London, where medical science has advanced beyond our own and a single-dose pill has been developed that, taken when pregnant, eradicates many common genetic defects from an unborn child. Hope Morrison, mother of a hyp...
Invader
C. J. Cherryh
Foreigner 1 [2]: For 500 years, humans have lived in exile, a lone colony stranded on an alien world. Years of isolation and suspicion. Years of waiting. But now, the wait is over. For a human-piloted ship orbits overhead, threatening to upset the ca...
The Invaders Plan
L. Ron Hubbard
Mission Earth [1]: The Voltar Confederacy has a long-range strategy to invade Earth and use it in their conquest of the Galaxy.However, with the discovery that Earth is being destroyed by incessant pollution, Royal Officer Jettero Heller is sent on a...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Jack Finney
"I warn you that what you're starting to read is full of loose ends and unanswered questions… Now if you don't like that kind of story, I'm sorry, and you'd better not read it…"On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, Calif...
Invasion: Earth
Harry Harrison
The object appeared over the Pacific, moving so fast that it was over Arizona before the supersonic shock of its passing was felt. It slowed perceptibly somewhere over New Jersey, and took only a small chunk out of the World Trade Center on its way b...
Inversions
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [6]: A doctor's devotion to her king and to her profession embroil her in a web of court intrigue and murder as she strives to preserve the health and well-being of the king she has come to love.On the other side of the world, a general's...
The Inverted World
Christopher Priest
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the c...
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Mar...
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
H.G.Wells' great novel of the dangers of science describes a man cast out from society by his own terrifying discovery.THE INVISIBLE MAN tells the story of Griffin, a brilliant and obsessed scientist dedicated to achieving invisibility. Taking whatev...
Invisible Sun
Charles Stross
Empire Games [3]: Two twinned worlds are facing attack The New American Commonwealth is caught in a deadly arms race with the USA, its parallel-world rival. And the USA’s technology is decades ahead.Yet the Commonweath might self-combust first – for ...
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