The Ohlone Way

Author	Dan Simmons
ISBN	0316007021

Drood… is the name and nightmare that obsesses Charles Dickens for the last five years of his life.

On June 9, 1865, Dickens and his mistress are secretly returning to London, when their express train hurtles over a gap in a trestle. All of the first-class carriages except the one carrying...

Author

Jon Meacham

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.

Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us...

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0345418417

1. Some Non-Trivial Calculus

As the MIT students sang back in 1971:Oh, the Ringworld is unstable
the Ringworld is unstable
did the best that they were able
and it's good enough for me!People who want the details should check out Non-Linear Dynamics of Ringworld Systems, by...

Author	Gray Brechin
ISBN	0520250087

First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families—the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others—who gained power through mining, ranching, water and energy, transportation, real estate, weapons,...

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0765341026

Welcome to a world like no other.

The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique...