Author: Iain Banks
Publisher: Abacus
Keywords: glass, walking
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1992-04-01
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 0349101787
ISBN-13: 9780349101781

’Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from their outer corners to her small ears taut. Her lips were pale, and nearly too full for her small mouth, like something bled but bruised. He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life.’ Graham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery. Steven Grout is paranoid - and with justice. He knows that They are out to get him. They are. Quiss, insecure in his fabulous if ramshackle castle, is forced to play interminable impossible games. Th

Author: Iain Banks
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: novel, factory, wasp
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1998-09-10
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0684853159
ISBN-13: 9780684853154

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I’d disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That’s my score to date. Three. I haven’t killed anybody for years, and don’t intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.

Author: Iain M. Banks
Publisher: Orbit
Keywords: transition
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-09-23
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0316071986
ISBN-13: 9780316071987

There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organization with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers?Among those operatives are Temudjin Oh, of mysterious Mongolian origins, an un-killable assassin who journeys between the peaks of Nepal, a ve

Author: Danny Banks
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: dekker, mechanical, engineering, guide, practical, mems, interfacing, microengineering
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-03-23
List price: $162.95
ISBN-10: 0824723058
ISBN-13: 9780824723057

MEMS devices are finding increasingly widespread use in a variety of settings, from chemical and biological analysis to sensors and actuators in automotive applications. Along with this massive growth, the field is still experiencing growing pains as fabrication processes are refined and new applications are attempted. Anyone serious about entering the field must have a realistic knowledge of just what is possible with MEMS technologies as well as the myriad issues involved in fabrication and device integration.Microengineering, MEMS, and Interfacing: A Practical Guide provides a straightforwa

Author: David Banks
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: propagation, varieties, cultivation, companion, grower, orchid
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0881927112
ISBN-13: 9780881927115

Growing orchids is a hobby more than two millennia old, and from the beginning these beautiful flowers have enjoyed a constant and unparalleled cult status among enthusiasts. The Orchid Growers Companion explains in accessible detail the natural habitat of some 400 orchid species, hybrids, and variants, with the information leading directly into practical propagation and cultivation guidance, including requirements for water, lighting, compost, and potting. Illustrated throughout with breathtaking images, The Orchid Growers Companion is an irresistible volume for anyone with even a passing int

Author: Iain M. Banks
Publisher: Orbit
Keywords: background
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0316036374
ISBN-13: 9780316036375

Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith’s apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.Her journey through the exotic Golterian system is a destructive and savage odyssey into her past, and that of her family and of the system itself.

Author: Stephen P. Banks
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Keywords: ethnographic, alternatives, fire, ice, social, research, fiction
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-09-11
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0761990356
ISBN-13: 9780761990352

Fiction and Social Research brings together writers from a variety of disciplines to explore and illustrate the possibilities of new narrative forms in social research. At the intersections of fiction, ethnography, and cultural studies, these essays demonstrate narratives that simultaneously enrich fieldwork and enliven research reporting. By arranging this volume into four areas of concern, this volume demonstrates how fiction can express issues of representation, subjectivity, critique and postmodern discourse. This volume is unique in its accessibility and will prove a valuable tool to the