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, Pycior, Helena M. / Slack, Nancy G. / Abir-Am, Pnina G., ed. Creative couples in the sciences. Rutgers University Press, 1996, xi, 369pp., PAPERBACK, very good. 9780813521886 ISBN 0813521882.

paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. stapled offprint from the Journal of the RAS, stapled rusting, signature of a previous owner to the verso of the front cover.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 7-8 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Ex-library. 8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eighty guests. Forty metres down. No way up. Opening night at the Halcyon Deep, the world's first luxury underwater resort. A string quartet. A manta ray gliding over the glass dome. Eighty of the wealthiest people in Asia raising champagne beneath the Andaman Sea. And beneath the wine cellar, a foundation built on a lie. Engineer Maya Rao warned them. Her report described the seabed beneath pile three as structurally equivalent to wet cake. The company buried the evidence, ignored the risk, and put her signature on the safety certificate. At 9:47 p.m., the ground answers. The habitat begins sliding toward a shelf break deep enough to swallow every secret its owners tried to hide. No rescue for hours. A storm on the surface. Two escape pods for ninety-one people. Every passing minute pushes the structure closer to total collapse. Maya and dive supervisor Elias Varga must keep terrified guests alive long enough to do the boring thing that saves everyone, because the fast thing only saves whoever is fastest. When the sea finally claims the wreck, the real disaster begins, one engineered in boardrooms by people who never get wet. Book One of the Halcyon Deep Trilogy. Perfect for readers who love deep-sea survival, engineering disasters, corporate conspiracies, and relentless, high-stakes suspense.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The building can't lie. The owner can't hide. The clock can't wait. Five years after the Halcyon Deep took seventeen souls, Cyrus Vantara opens his second masterpiece, the Halcyon Ascent, the most watched building on Earth. Every sensor public. Every threshold beyond his reach. And the one engineer who saw through him, Maya Rao, appointed by international treaty as the structure's legally independent conscience. Then the dome begins to whisper. The flaw isn't a buried memo this time. There is no villain in the room. Every signature is honest. Every certificate is real. The lie was born eleven layers down the supply chain, in a factory no audit ever reached, and it has been passing every inspection for two years inside seventeen layers of glass. When a cyclone drives the one load case nobody validated against the one panel nobody suspects, the trilogy's hard-won lessons face their ultimate test. A public dashboard. Forty million witnesses. Fifty-five lives. Twenty-two minutes. No cover-up to expose. No wreck to salvage. Only the truth arriving in real time, and one final question: Is the truth enough if it arrives before disaster strikes The Halcyon Deep Trilogy concludes. The evacuation the first book deserved. The verdict the second book promised. And a final image that reminds us why every warning matters before it's too late. A fast-paced engineering thriller blending disaster suspense, corporate accountability, and high-stakes survival, perfect for readers of realistic techno-thrillers and intelligent suspense.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some patterns should never be left unfinished. Claire Hedley came to Nether Combe to rebuild a life the violin had ended for her. In the bell tower of St. Osyth's she found what she was looking for: a discipline exact enough to quiet grief, seven other people who needed her to be on time, and a village that had kept one rule for two hundred years and would not explain it. Then she found Fenwick's Silence. It is a change-ringing composition, abandoned in 1826, four rows from its end, on the morning its author climbed the tower to test one row he had written down that he was not ready to finish. He died beneath his own bells. The village has rung around the row ever since. Claire rings it by accident, on an ordinary Tuesday in November. The dead start coming back to Nether Combe in the order the mathematics forgot to call them-oldest first, 1826 first-confused, cold, and looking for houses that were pulled down a century ago. They are not angry. That is the worst of it. They are lost, and they are getting closer to the present with every week, and the churchwarden's arithmetic says six weeks before the queue reaches graves that still get flowers. To send them home, Claire has to persuade a fractured band of ringers to finish a peal no living person has heard to its end-five thousand and forty changes, one morning, no stopping once it begins. The arithmetic tells them how long it will take. It does not tell them what finishing will cost. CHANGE RINGING is a standalone folk horror novella built on the real mathematics of English church bells: no curse, no demon, no haunted object. Only an unfinished sentence, and the two hundred years a village spent being frightened of the wrong half of it.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Three thousand meters down, something is killing this station one system at a time. Nadia Voss is the only one awake when the numbers stop adding up: a scrubber failing too fast, a hull seam stressed on purpose, a colleague dead in a flooded corridor with a full tank of air. Someone built these failures to look like age, deniable, gradual, the kind no inquiry would ever trace back to a decision. She has six hours of breathable air to prove they didn't. The person who did this might be one of the three people she just woke up to help her survive it. What she finds isn't an accident. It's a decision, made forty-one floors above an ocean none of its architects will ever have to survive, and the only way to stop it from happening again is to make sure the whole world hears exactly what she heard. Some things don't fail on their own.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - June Halloway checks into the remote Vantage Hotel during a whiteout. The clerk welcomes her back.The hotel insists she has lived in room 419 for six months. Her clothes hang in the wardrobe. Her handwriting fills the margins. The staff know how she takes her coffee. And the account has never missed a payment.Someone has spent $41,000 building a perfect record of a life June never lived.As June follows the trail from a sealed room to a contested inheritance, she discovers that the false stay is not designed merely to steal her money. It is designed to make one version of her disappear.Trapped by the storm inside a hotel whose records cannot be trusted, June must prove who she is before the Vantage completes her checkout for her.A fast, atmospheric psychological thriller about identity, grief and the terrifying power of a perfect record.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The eyes are painted last. On the dawn of Mahalaya, when all of Kolkata wakes to give its clay goddesses their eyes, the city's most beloved idol-maker is found without his - his own lids painted shut in the long lashes of a deity, his third eye weeping vermilion, and a single number scrawled in red beside the body. Fifty-one. Detective Inspector Tilottama Sen has stood over two hundred corpses. She has never found one signed in the handwriting of the sister who vanished seventeen years ago. As Durga Puja climbs through its sacred days toward the night the goddess is carried to the river, a killer is rebuilding her shattered body across the city - choosing victims the law set free, taking from each the very piece the old myth says fell there, and counting down to a final offering. To stop him, Tilo must read a map written in scripture and blood. It leads through the rituals of her city, through a buried case no one was allowed to solve, and home - to the one truth she has spent her whole life refusing to see. A literate, pitiless serial-killer thriller steeped in the festivals, faith, and fault lines of Kolkata - for readers of dark international crime fiction.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For eighty-nine years, six fen parishes have held the water in their drains at a level nobody will write down.The pumping station at Marrowdyke burns the fuel of a machine that shifts four cubic metres a second, and shifts barely one. Head office wants it costed. They send Alma Setchell, who grew up eleven miles away, left at eighteen, and has spent twenty years becoming very good at exactly this.It takes her four days. The pumps are perfect. The fault is a discharge gate padlocked a third open - set by hand, kept that way across two generations of keeper, re-set in secret after the last refurbishment. She writes it up in twenty-two pages with four photographs, adds a careful recommendation that somebody find out why before anybody touches it, and sends it.The Board cuts the padlock on a Friday morning. The pumps run properly for the first time since the war. The water in the Marrowdyke Level begins, at last, to go down.The fen has been sinking for three hundred years. Drained peat meets air and wastes away - a centimetre and a half a year, patiently, without malice - and everything buried in it has been sinking too. Everything except what the water was holding.Now the ground is going down past it.RODDON is a horror novel about drainage: about competence, institutions, and the particular dread of being the generation that let something go. There is no monster in it. There is a water level, a padlock, an iron post driven to the clay in 1868, and a parish that agreed to something in 1937 and then made very sure it could never be written down.Book One of a three-book series. The story continues in FREEBOARD. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - SOME WORDS ARE ONLY DANGEROUS WHEN FINISHED. The road to Thamlong washed out years ago. The rain has never really stopped. And in a dead tea planter's library at the end of the ruined road, archival linguist Ishani Deb finds a collection arranged like a held breath: a bay of five hundred books sorted by weight. A field journal defaced at exactly the same word, every time. Nineteen reels of tape recorded by a woman who walked up the mountain in 1972 and never came down. The hill people speak of a forgotten order and a chant of three syllables. The first two are never printed in this book. The third is different for everyone who hears them - it is whatever you have refused to say. Ishani has been refusing for nine years. Now the catalogue she was hired to make is starting to look like a recitation. The red threads in the forest are moving in windless rain. And something patient beneath the mountain has turned its attention, at last, to the one reader it has waited a century to meet. A psychological-occult thriller of silence, guilt, and the sentence that holds your whole life up - until the day you finish it. Atmospheric folk horror in the tradition of slow-burn literary thrillers: no gore, no jump scares - only the rain, the fog, and the thing that listens when the rain rests. Includes illustrated archive material: the map of Thamlong, the razored ledger leaf, the Tape 9 spectrogram, and the mirror-written field notebook.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The fan had been bolted to the roof of the tunnel since 2011, and for fourteen>At ten to eight on a March morning it comes down onto a car in the nearsidelane. The driving examiner in the passenger seat is killed. The seventeen-year-old at the wheel, eleven minutes into her first driving test, survives by the>Everybody says the concrete. The Haverscar Tunnel is forty-six years old, itsits in salt air off the North Sea, and every road tunnel in the country shedsconcrete off its own face. It has a name - spalling - and a budget code, and>Ada Marram reads broken metal for a living. Hired by the contractor who needsthis to be somebody else's fault, she finds that the concrete held. All foursteel anchors failed, and they failed in fatigue - which takes years, and takes>The control system says that fan was started eleven thousand times. The fracture surface says four hundred thousand. And the bands across the metal are not a smear of ordinary wear. They arefifty-one separate visits, each one a night's work, going back further than thetunnel's own records survive - and somebody was standing at the control panel>She has no client, no warrant and no authority. She has a tunnel carryingthirty-one thousand vehicles a day, twenty-two more fans hanging over the>SPALL is the second Factor of Safety thriller. The engineering is real andcheckable, and that is the point of the series.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Six months after closing her first impossible file, records specialist Iris Halloway opens a second one - and finds a pattern stranger than the one that nearly got her killed. No annual renewals this time. Just fourteen small, perfectly legal transactions, spaced across fifty-one years, each one resetting a dead woman's account the moment before it could finally, permanently close. Agnes Whitcombe died in 1974. Someone has spent half a century making sure the state's paperwork never quite believed it. Iris and her partner Desmond have five weeks before a new statute force-finalizes every account like this one - sealing the record forever, whether it's true or not. What they find is a caseworker who has been quietly filing corrections he had no authority to make, a Vital Statistics analyst who was overruled twenty years ago for asking the right question, and a woman four states away who has spent her whole life being denied things nobody would explain - with no idea the government has been certain, for fifty-one years, that she doesn't exist. But the file is starting to fight back against everyone who tries to close it wrong - and the deadline that started as five weeks is closing faster than anyone filing the paperwork can keep up with. A documentary horror novel about the records that quietly decide who we are, and the people who spend their whole lives making sure the wrong version never gets to be the last word. The conclusion to The Escheatment Cycle duology.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Marrowdyke Washland Extension will put four thousand hectares of fen under water and hold it there for ever. It will take nine houses, three farms, and a tenancy signed in 1961. Alma Setchell designed it, costed it, and put her name on every page, and she has spent twelve years unable to say what it is actually for. At the public inquiry it comes down to a single question, and Katherine Asplin KC asks it on the fourth day. Why this site, when three cheaper ones exist on empty ground Alma has the answer. It is the thing she has never written down - and the trap is exact. Establish the site's national importance and Historic England must consider protecting it. Protection means consent is needed before anyone may flood it. Consent has no precedent and takes years the funding does not have. And protection has never once reached the drainage that is destroying it, because drainage is not works on a monument. Tell the truth and they are protected to death. Stay silent and nine households lose their homes without ever being told what for - breaking the only promise she ever made to the one man who trusted her. There is no third option. She spends four years looking. On the tenth morning of the inquiry, seventeen people from three parishes put their names down to speak. None is represented. None stands to gain. Several stand to lose a great deal. WASHLAND is the conclusion of The Marrowdyke Level: a horror novel about consent, evidence, and a thing that survived four hundred years precisely because nobody ever wrote it down. Book Three of three. Begin with RODDON.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The strongest cyclone ever recorded has turned without warning. It is heading for the Sundarbans, nine hundred square kilometres of mangrove standing between the Bay of Bengal and four and a half million people. There are no roads. The highest ground in the district is an embankment built by the British and repaired by hand. Commander Arjun Basu has eleven hours. Six scientists are trapped at an isolated weather station and the boat sent to collect them turned back. When Basu's team reaches the station they find the generators running, the computers live, and dinner still warm on the table. Nobody is there. Every radio in the building is repeating one sentence, on a loop, in the voice of a woman who died four years ago. Then the satellites show something that should not be possible. Across the drowning delta, thousands of people are walking east, into the storm, toward the eye. Nobody sent them. Nobody can reach them. Every one of them received the same message on the same morning, telling them exactly where to go. The buildings they are walking to were demolished eight years ago. As the surge comes ashore and the last helicopter leaves, Basu and cyclone scientist Maya Dutta uncover a truth buried since 2019, one that will cost thousands of lives before the water goes down, and that nobody will ever be prosecuted for. Because the most dangerous thing in this storm was never the weather. A gripping, meticulously researched disaster thriller set in the world's largest mangrove forest. Perfect for readers of high-stakes survival fiction, grounded suspense, and impossible-to-put-down thrillers.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The mountain agreed with her. Nobody else did. Avalanche forecaster Sutton Reyes digs one more snow pit before sunrise and finds exactly what she was afraid of: a slope loaded wrong, a weak layer ready to go, and a hundred and forty investors about to be guided across it for a single perfect photograph. She calls it considerable. She recommends the bowl stays closed. Nineteen minutes later, someone with more authority and less patience changes the public-facing danger rating from considerable to moderate. Minutes after that, five people are buried under it-including a fifteen-year-old boy who was never supposed to be more than a photo op, and a resort executive four thousand feet below who has just decided that a livestream matters more than a search-and-rescue callout. Sutton has to keep them alive through a second night, a second slide, and a storm that's rewriting the mountain in real time-while the evidence of what really happened that morning survives on a device no one else knows still exists. Some slopes don't forgive a mistake. This one is about to find out whether it forgives a cover-up. A tight, unputdownable survival thriller for readers of Zero Fathoms and Ballast-read it in one sitting.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Alma Setchell found the fault, reported it correctly, and had it put right. Nineteen months on, the correction is best practice across forty parishes, the last pumping station that was quietly holding its water level has been automated, and she has taken a job inside the institution rolling it out. She took it for one reason: to be where the decisions are. Being inside is worse. She signs the approvals herself now, twenty-six of them in eleven minutes on a Thursday afternoon. So she goes looking for something else, and she finds it on a Sunday in January on four hundred metres of undisturbed flood bank at Sythe Corner. The register says the crest stands at 4.62 metres. She shoots it eleven times and gets 3.91. The bank has not failed. There is no slip, no scar, no crack. The ground beneath it has been sinking since before the survey was taken, and the bank has gone down with it, intact, level, unbroken - and nobody has ever re-measured it, because there is no rule anywhere in England requiring anyone to re-measure a bank that has not fallen down. Every crest level in the Level is wrong in the same direction. Every flood model is built on them. And the freeboard - the margin between the design water level and the top of the bank, the allowance for everything the model does not know - has been quietly spent. She writes it up. Everybody agrees with her, promptly, on the merits, in writing. It goes into a programme for 2028. Then it starts raining, and it does not stop for eleven weeks. FREEBOARD is a horror novel about institutions: about the difference between being right and being able to act, about what a system does with a problem that has not happened yet, and about the particular dread of holding the evidence and the authority and still not having the thing you need. Book Two of three. The story concludes in WASHLAND.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The last time Sutton Reyes caught a company falsifying a mountain's danger, it cost five people their safety and one man his career. This time, the man running the operation studied exactly how that happened - and made sure he'd never leave the kind of evidence that caught his predecessor. Three weeks into her new job auditing safety practices for the same holding company that owned the resort from her last case, Sutton flies into a remote Alaska heli-ski operation on a tip from its own safety coordinator: a landing zone was quietly swapped the night before a high-profile shoot, with nothing on paper but a verbal excuse nobody can disprove. She's right. She can't prove it fast enough. And when a skier drops into exactly the wrong spot on a narrow couloir, the mountain answers with a different kind of violence than Sutton has faced before - fast, concentrated, and merciless, in terrain with no cell signal, no satellite backup, and a storm closing the only way out. What she has left is a documentary crew's forgotten microphone, a whistleblower with a fractured ankle and a photographic memory for paperwork, and about eighteen hours to turn a man's own careless words into the one piece of proof he never thought to control. The concluding book in the Windslab duology - for readers who want their survival thrillers with a cover-up that fights back.…