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Desde los primeros útiles de piedra a las naves que exploran la galaxia, este libro nos propone un completísimo panorama de lo que la ciencia ha aportado a la humanidad en los más diversos campos: la aventura de los grandes exploradores, la astronomia, la quimica, la fisica, la medicina, la psicologia, la ecologia, la informatica...Esta es la historia cronologica de mas de cuatro millones de años de conocimiento humano, la historia de los grandes descubrimientos y la gesta de los cientificos que los llevaron a cabo y la aplicacion practica de cada nuevo hallazgo. Se trata de una cronica de la inagotable vocacion del ser humano por saber mas, de su lucha por mejorar el mundo en el que vive, dominar la naturaleza, vencer las enfermedades, crear nuevas formas de comunicacion, explorar territorios ignotos, dar con la solucion a los grandes enigmas

En este libro de cuentos, Isaac Asimov se propuso conciliar la ciencia ficción con el género policiaco. Teñidos a menudo por el peculiar humor del autor, los relatos combinan asuntos como la gravedad, la transferencia de masas, la satira sobre la investigacion cientifica o la teoria de la relatividad, con tramas de intriga o, incluso, espionaje, fruto de la fertil inventiva del autor. El resultado es un libro que satisfara las expectativas del aficionado tanto de uno como de otro genero, asi como de los numerosos incondicionales del gran Asimov.

Biron Farrell was young and naïve, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm room changed him from an innocent student at the University of Earth to a marked man, fleeing desperately from an unknown assassin. He soon discovers that, many light-years away, his father, the highly respected Rancher of Widemos, has been murdered. Stunned, grief-stricken, and outraged, Biron is determined to uncover the reasons behind his father's death, and becomes entangled in an intricate saga of rebellion, political intrigue, and espionage. The mystery takes him deep into space where he finds himself in a relentless struggle with the power-mad despots of Tyrann. Now it is not just a case of life or death for Biron, but a question of freedom for the galaxy.

One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next hes a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim its the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soilso poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty. Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two. This is young Isaac Asimovs first novel, full of wonders and ideas, the book that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Foundation books and novels. It is also one of that select group of SF adventures that since the early 1950s has hooked generations of teenagers on reading science fiction. This is Golden Age SF at its finest.

Although small and seemingly helpless, the Foundation had managed to survive against the greed of its neighboring warlords. But could it stand against the mighty power of the Empire, who had created a mutant man with the strength of a dozen battlefleets...?From

The Second Foundation meets the threat of a perilous mutant, only to face the challenge of the corrupt First Foundation for control of the galactic empire. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

"Ancora due volumi della serie ""Le grandi storie della fantascienza"", che ripercorrono stavolta il biennio 1955-1956, anni che videro l'istallazione della prima centrale nucleare, dei primi lanci di satelliti nello spazio, quando in tutto il mondo si festeggio il matrimonio di Marilyn Monroe con Arthur Miller. I due volumi antologici comprendono come di regola racconti di autori ""di prima categoria"", veri giganti del genere tra cui: Theodore Sturgeon, Philip K. Dick, Eric Frank Russell, Arthur C. Clarke, e ovviamente lo stesso Isaac Asimov. "

"I migliori racconti di fantascienza pubblicati nel 1953 da autori del prestigio di Fritz Leiber, Walter M. Miller jr, Damon Knight, Theodore Sturgeon, William Tenn, Ward Moore, Arthur C. Clark, Robert Sheckley, Philip K. Dick, James Blish, Alfred Blester, Theodore R. Cogdwell, William Morrison, Frederic Bron, Jerome Bixby. 17 racconti di inquietudine, mistero, avventura, paura, sorpresa, scritti nell'anno in cui moriva Stalin, Eisenhower veniva eletto presidente degli Stati Uniti, Elisabetta saliva sul trono d'Inghilterra. "

The second volume in an extraordinary collection published shortly after the author's death. In these twenty-three stories, Asimov's vivid awareness of the potential of technology is translated into human dilemmas. The definitive collection of short fiction by Isaac Asimov, supreme master of the science fiction genre continues with Volume Two of the Complete Stories. The Good Doctor was always ahead of his time and his work stands today as the clearest expression of our collective hopes and fears for the future. But the ever-expanding popularity of his stories with young and old readers alike is explained by their wit, zest and human interest. Within this volume are stories often voted among the best science fiction stories of all time. In these stories Asimov's vivid awareness of the potential of technology is translated into human dilemmas that are more relevant today than ever before.

Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long. After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruinsdestroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first timebut now he is certain he knows where it lies. The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search. They too want the Second Foundation destroyedbefore it destroys them.

"Il secondo anno dopo la seconda guerra mondiale vide il presidente americano proclamare la sua ""dottrina Truman"", e la lista nera di Hollywood segnare l'inizio della caccia ai ""rossi"" e ai sovversivi. Nasceva la CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) e cresceva il timore che l'Europa divenisse comunista. Nel frattempo il Bell X-1 oltrepassava, per la prima volta, la barriera del suono in volo orizzontale; W.F. Libby metteva a punto l'orologio atomico; Thor Heyerdahl attraversava il Pacifico su una zattera; Moravia scriveva ""La romana"" e Matisse dipingeva ""La ragazza inglese"". La morte si portava via Henry Ford, Joe Di Maggio era il giocatore piu pagato del campionato americano... "