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Foundation series volume 7
Language
English
Description
The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This trade book takes on the widely-shared belief that learning the history of something always contributes to understanding it, is often the best way to do so, and sometimes is the only way. The aim is to explain away these three beliefs, to show why historical narrative is always, always wrong, not just incomplete or inaccurate or unfounded, but mistaken the way Ptolemaic astronomy or Phlogiston chemistry is wrong. The resources employed to do...
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Series
Language
English
Description
So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl, seemed to have the answer, or did she?
Author
Series
Biblioteca Isaac Asimov volume 37
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
La Fundación, establecida después de que el Antiguo Imperio dio paso a la barbarie, lucha contra una cepa mutante llamada Mula e intenta deshacerse de la Segunda Fundación después de enterarse de que heredará un futuro Imperio.
The Foundation, established after the Old Empire gives way to barbarism, fights against a mutant strain called the Mule and tries to get rid of the Second Foundation after learning it will inherit a future Empire.
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Beginning with Nixon's Red-baiting performances as a congressman on the House Un-American Activities Committee, Jacobson details Nixon's repeated reinventions, which were always, but not only, in service to his political goals. Nixon, he argues, must be understood as a person caught between forces of temper and control, protean in a way that makes his whole legacy difficult to assess"--
"Was Richard Nixon actually a madman, or did he just play one?When...
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