Russell's ebook Library
Practice Standard for Project Configuration Management
PMI
Most projects present teams with challenges relating to time, cost and scope. Careful management of these project elements allows projects to be completed successfully.In order to guide a project's direction, project managers utilize the process of c...
Practice Standard for Project Estimating
PMI
Presents guidelines for project managers on developing costs, resources and time estimates in the early stages of a project and techniques for refining these estimates during each project stage.
Practice Standard for Project Risk Management
PMI
The Practice Standard for Project Risk Management provides a benchmark for the project management profession that defines the aspects of Project Risk Management that are recognized as good practice on most projects most of the time.The Practice Stand...
Practice Standard for Scheduling, Second Edition
PMI
Presents a refererence guide for building a scheduling model based on project management principles, describing its major components and the ways it can be assessed for its effectiveness over the life of the project.
Prador Moon
Neal Asher
Polity [1]: Neal Asher takes on first contact, Polity style. This original novel recounts the first contact between the aggressive Prador aliens, and the Polity Collective as it is forced to retool its society to a war footing. The overwhelming brute...
Praying for Sleep
Jeffery Deaver
Praying for revenge...Psycho killer Michael Hrubek has escaped to find the woman who put him away. He'll show her what killing is all about...Praying for salvation...Lis knows he's out there. He's haunted every sleepless night, watching and waiting t...
Precious Little Things
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Made Things [0.50]: A prequel to the magical novella Made Things, Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Precious Little Things" is a short story offering a new perspective while set in the same action-packed gaslamp world.
The Precipice
Ben Bova
Asteroid Wars [1]: Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space...
Precursor
C. J. Cherryh
Foreigner 2 [4]: National best-selling author and winner of three Hugo Awards, C. J. Cherryh returns to the universe of her acclaimed Foreigner trilogy - with an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft stranded on a planet inhabited by a host...
Predator
Patricia Cornwell
Kay Scarpetta [14]: Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowboundBoston, one as unnerving as any she has ever faced.The teasing psychological c...
Prelude to Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Foundation [6]: It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor.Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological...
Prelude to Space
Arthur C. Clarke
The world’s first lunar spacecraft is about to launch. The ship, Prometheus, is built from two components — one designed to travel trough outter space to the Moon and back, and the other to carry the first component through Earth’s atmosphere and int...
Prentice Alvin
Orson Scott Card
Alvin Maker [3]: Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of a blacksmith. But Alvin must also learn to control and u...
Preparing the Perfect CV
Rebecca Corfield
Every job hunter needs an impressive CV that describes their educational and professional history. A well-prepared and individually tailored CV is invaluable and can greatly improve a candidate's chances of getting the job they want."Preparing the Pe...
The Prestige
Christopher Priest
Two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred years later.Working in the gaslight-a...
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' Thus memorably begins Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, one of the world's most popular novels. Pride and Prejudice — Austen's own...
The Pride of Chanur
C. J. Cherryh
Compact Space [1]: No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company -- a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown -- a...
The Primal Urge
Brian W Aldiss
How would you like to have a disc set in the middle of your forehead which glowed pink whenever you felt sexually aroused?This is the basis of Brian Aldiss’ amazingly funny and original novel, first published in 1961 and set in a near-future Britain ...
Primary Inversion
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [1]: The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication.But war with the rival empire of the Traders seems imminent, a war that can only lead to slavery for the Skolians or t...
Prime Deceptions
Valerie Valdes
Chilling Effect [2]: The lovably flawed crew of La Sirena Negra and their psychic cats return in this fast-paced and outrageously fun science-fiction novel, in which they confront past failures and face new threats in the far reaches of space from th...
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