Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Asimov's Guide to the Bible
Author: Isaac AsimovAsimov's Guide to the Bible
Author: Isaac AsimovAsimov's Guide to Shakespeare
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1542
Book Description
Explains the historical, legendary, and mythological background of 38 plays and 2 narrative poems.
In the Beginning
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher: Open Road Media Books
ISBN: 9781497638679
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In the Beginning: Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis. The beginning of time. The origin of life. In our Western civilization, there are two influential accounts of beginnings. One is the biblical account, compiled more than two thousand years ago by Judean writers who based much of their thinking on the Babylonian astronomical lore of the day. The other is the account of modern science, which, in the last century, has slowly built up a coherent picture of how it all began. Both represent the best thinking of their times, and in this line-by-line annotation of the first eleven chapters of Genesis, Isaac Asimov carefully and evenhandedly compares the two accounts, pointing out where they are similar and where they are different. "There is no version of primeval history, preceding the discoveries of modern science, that is as rational and as inspiriting as that of the Book of Genesis," Asimov says. However, human knowledge does increase, and if the biblical writers "had written those early chapters of Genesis knowing what we know today, we can be certain that they would have written it completely differently." Isaac Asimov brings to this fascinating subject his wide-ranging knowledge of science and history--and his award-winning ability to explain the complex with accuracy, clarity, and wit.
Conversations with Isaac Asimov
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578067381
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Collected interviews with the popular and influential author considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction.
Past, Present, and Future
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
In Past, Present, and Future, Asimov has culled the best of his essays (some of which appear here for the first time) to form a fascinating journey through the world of astronomy, nuclear power, medicine, physics, history, music, film, politics, and other popular subjects. Our preeminent popularizer of science, Asimov takes on many of today's most discussed issues here - Star Wars, the Chernobyl disaster, genetic engineering, the creationism/evolution debate - with a flair, verve, and mastery that have won him innumerable readers. But he also includes many essays written in a personal vein, giving us disarmingly humorous accounts of his triple-bypass surgery and his "Hollywood Non-Career." An entertaining look at Asimov's committment to living in New York City (which he calls "Paradise") is afforded in "I Love New York." On a grand tour of the years ahead, in chapters like "Living on the Moon," "2084," "Should We Fear the Computer?" and "The New Learning," we are shown a future that is thrilling, fearsome, and, as the author insists, our present responsibility. Destined to take its place on the shelves of every Asimov fan, Past, Present, and Future is at once rational, argumentative, informal, and charming.
Asimov's Guide to Science
Author: Isaac AsimovAsimov's Guide to the Bible: The New Testament
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Illuminates the events of the Old Testament through discussion of the historical, geographical and biographical aspects.
Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 0307792277
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A thrilling nonfiction tour of the cosmos that brings the universe down to Earth, from one of the all-time masters of science fiction. No one makes sense out of science like Isaac Asimov. Are you puzzled by pulsars? Baffled by black holes? Bewildered by the big bang? If so, here are succinct, crystal-clear answers to more than one hundred of the most significant questions about the essential nature of the universe—questions that have fired the imagination since the beginning of history. Over the course of this fantastic voyage, the origins, the discoveries, and the stunning achievements of astronomy will unfold before your eyes. You will experience close encounters with giant planets, exploding stars, distant galaxies, and more. For anyone who has ever asked the ultimate questions, who has ever looked up at the sky and asked What in heaven is going on?, Isaac Asimov’s unique vision, skill, and authority will bring the big picture into focus. “A fine introduction to modern astronomical theory.”—Library Journal
Quick and Easy Math
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Describes shortcuts to use in solving problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, and fractions.