Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher:
ISBN: 9780340262184
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Book of Facts
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher:
ISBN: 9780340262184
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher: Gramercy
ISBN: 9780517065037
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book presents three thousand unusual, fantastic, and amazing bits of information, presented in almost one hundred different categories, ranging all the way from astronomy to show business, from the ancients to the moderns, and from history to animal life.
Fact and Fancy
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher:
ISBN: 9780380011742
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Extraterrestrial Civilizations
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307792307
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Isaac Asimov concludes that we are not alone! Using the most up-to-date astronomical research as the backdrop for speculation, Asimov confronts the possibilities of other-worldly life head-on in Extraterrestrial Civilizations. In what will surely become one of the most provocative books ever written on the possibilities of life elsewhere in the universe, the incomparable Isaac Asimov provides chilling, hopeful, and exciting new insights. Here is astounding speculation about where the next giant step for mankind will take us. . . . Praise for Extraterrestrial Civilizations “[Isaac] Asimov holds our attention as he builds a meticulous case. We are not alone. It’s just a matter of time until we know for sure.”—Miami Herald "Intriguing"—Publishers Weekly
I, Asimov
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307573532
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname “the Great Explainer.” I. Asimov is his personal story—vivid, open, and honest—as only Asimov himself could tell it. Here is the story of the paradoxical genius who wrote of travel to the stars yet refused to fly in airplanes; who imagined alien universes and vast galactic civilizations while staying home to write; who compulsively authored more than 470 books yet still found the time to share his ideas with some of the great minds of our century. Here are his wide-ranging thoughts and sharp-eyed observations on everything from religion to politics, love and divorce, friendship and Hollywood, fame and mortality. Here, too, is a riveting behind-the-scenes look at the varied personalities—Campbell, Ellison, Heinlein, Clarke, del Rey, Silverberg, and others—who along with Asimov helped shape science fiction. As unique and irrepressible as the man himself, I. Asimov is the candid memoir of an incomparable talent who entertained readers for nearly half a century and whose work will surely endure into the future he so vividly envisioned.
Asimov on Numbers
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher:
ISBN: 9780671411862
Category : Number theory
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Asimov on Chemistry
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Essays samlet under overskrifterne: Inorganic chemistry, Nuclear chemistry, Organic chemistry, Biochemistry, Geochemistry, General
Our Angry Earth
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250163668
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
“A lucid overview of [environmental] problems and a compelling call to action.” —Publishers Weekly From two of science fiction’s most celebrated and brilliant minds—Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl—comes the second edition of Our Angry Earth, a comprehensive analysis of today's environmental threats and a guide on how we can heal our planet, with an introduction and afterword from New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson. Our Angry Earth provides a candid picture of the present and many possibilities for a better, cleaner future. From the greenhouse effect and depletion of our ozone layer to nuclear waste and species extinction, Asimov and Pohl not only present accessible explanations of complex scientific processes but ways we can improve our behavior and relationship with the planet, whether it be involvement in social activism or individual lifestyle changes. Kim Stanley Robinson, author of New York Times bestsellers 2312, New York2140, and the internationally renowned Mars trilogy, brings his decades-spanning expertise in climate change to Our Angry Earth’s introduction and afterword. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Roman Empire
Author: Colin Michael WellsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674777705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This sweeping history of the Roman Empire from 44 BC to AD 235 has three purposes: to describe what was happening in the central administration and in the entourage of the emperor; to indicate how life went on in Italy and the provinces, in the towns, in the countryside, and in the army camps; and to show how these two different worlds impinged on each other. Colin Wells's vivid account is now available in an up-to-date second edition.
Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher:
ISBN: 9780448157764
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Three thousand unusual facts are grouped in almost 100 categories, including "About Kings," "America's Revolution," "Animal World," "Energy" "Into the Air," "Laws," "Military Secrets," "Solar System," and "Words."