Foundation S Triumph

Author : David Brin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061795343

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Foundation's Triumph by David Brin Pdf

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction.The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of Psychohistory, Foundation pioneered many themes of modern science fiction.Now, with the approval of the Asimov estate, three of today's most acclaimed authors have completed the epic the Grand Master left unfinished. The Second Foundation Trilogy begins with Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear, telling the origins of Hari Seldon, the Foundation's creator. Greg Bear's Foundation and Chaos relates the epic tale of Seldon's downfall and the first stirrings of robotic rebellion. Now, in David Brin's Foundation's Triumph, Seldon is about to escape exile and risk everything for one final quest-a search for knowledge and the power it bestows. The outcome of this final journey may secure humankind's future-or witness its final downfall...

Author : Gregory Benford
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061793608

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Foundation's Fear by Gregory Benford Pdf

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of psychohistory. Now, with the permission -- and blessing -- of the Asimov estate, the epic saga continues. Fate -- and a cruel Emperor's arbitrary power -- have thrust Hari Seldon into the First Ministership of the Empire against his will. As the story opens, Hari is about to leave his quiet professorship and take on the all but impossible task of administering 25 million inhabited worlds from the all-steel planet of Trantor. With the help of his beautiful bio-engineered "wife" Dors and his alien companion Yugo, Seldon is still developing the science that will transform history, never dreaming that it will ultimately pit him against future history's most awesome threat.

Author : D. G. Leahy
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791420221

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Foundation by D. G. Leahy Pdf

This book presents the ontological and logical foundation of a new form of thinking, the beginning of an “absolute phenomenology.” It does so in the context of the history of thought in Europe and America. It explores the ramifications of a categorically new logic. Thinkers dealt with include Plato, Galileo, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Peirce, James, Dewey, Derrida, McDermott, and Altizer.

Author : David Brin
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1417618507

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Foundation's Triumph by David Brin Pdf

Hari Seldon, creator of the science of psychohistory, escapes from exile on the distant planet of Trantor and searches the galaxy for a new galactic enigma, only to confront a dangerous new robot conspiracy led by an ambitious Lodovik Trema.

Author : Christa Clarke
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847845217

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African Art in the Barnes Foundation by Christa Clarke Pdf

The first publication of the Barnes Foundation’s important and extensive African art collection. The Barnes Foundation is renowned for its astonishing collection of Postimpressionist and early Modern art assembled by Albert C. Barnes, a Philadelphia pharmaceutical entrepreneur. Less known is the pioneering collection of African sculpture that Barnes acquired between 1922 and 1924, mainly from Paul Guillaume, the Paris-based dealer. The Barnes Foundation was one of the first permanent installations in the United States to present objects from Africa as fine art. Indeed, the African collection is central to understanding Barnes’s socially progressive vision for his foundation.This comprehensive volume showcases all 123 objects, including reliquary figures, masks, and utensils, most of which originated in France’s African colonies—Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, and the Congo—as well as in Sierra Leone, Republic of Benin, and Nigeria. Christa Clarke considers the significance of the collection and Barnes’s role in the Harlem Renaissance and in fostering broader appreciation of African art in the twentieth century. In-depth catalog entries by noted scholars in the field complete the volume.

Author : Jean Riley Senft
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781553656579

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Triumph on Ice by Jean Riley Senft Pdf

When Olympic figure skating judge Jean Senft blew the whistle on vote trading at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games, she opened the door to an entirely new way of judging. This system, which was developed and adopted following the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, is driving the sport in new directions. As skaters are pushed to explore ever-more difficult and dramatic ways of scoring points, they are changing the very nature of figure skating. In Triumph on Ice, Senft describes in detail how that new system has lead to this new type of skating, which was so thrillingly on display at the 2010 Olympics. Se.

Author : Martin H. Greenberg,Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765328305

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Foundation's Friends by Martin H. Greenberg,Isaac Asimov Pdf

No work of science fiction in the twentieth century captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth in the stories and novels of Isaac Asimov. In this volume, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives—and offer personal tributes to the late, great Asimov some years after his death. Foundation's Friends features contributions by Ben Bova, L. Sprague de Camp, Frederik Pohl, Carl Sagan, Harry Turtledove, and others.

Author : Greg Bear
Publisher : Orbit Books
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Psychic ability
ISBN : 1857237366

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Foundation and Chaos by Greg Bear Pdf

Isaac Asimov's Foundation series is known to millions of readers throughout the world. Before he died, however, he made it clear that there were areas he had not explored. Greg Bear now takes up that challenge and an epic story of galactic intrigue and incredible science takes a staggering new twist. Hari Seldon's life's work is about to come to an end. The science of psychohistory he has developed can be refined no more, and the plans for the Foundation, which will steer mankind through the dark centuries ahead, are complete. But it may all be for nothing if the political factions on Trantor succeed in destroying Hari's work. Accused of treason against the Galactic Empire, the most important trial of all time is about to begin . . .

Author : Donald Kingsbury
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765341956

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Psychohistorical Crisis by Donald Kingsbury Pdf

Science fiction-roman.

Author : Melissa Copp,Melanie Davis
Publisher : Triumph Book
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1684546303

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Raising Wheels by Melissa Copp,Melanie Davis Pdf

The Triumph Book: RAISING WHEELS features stories from exceptional parents raising differently abled children as well as the motivating examples of those who are personally achieving greatness by living life on wheels.The RAISING WHEELS compilation of stories provides the much needed and virtually non-existent guide for parents of special needs children and inspiration for anyone dealing with adversity. Featuring the Copp Family whose home was renovated to be accessible for their two boys in wheelchairs on the hit tv series Fixer Upper, with a little help from Tim Tebow.

Author : David Epstein
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780735214491

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Range by David Epstein Pdf

The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking: as seen/heard on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, The Bill Simmons Podcast, Rich Roll, and more. “The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes “Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance.” —Daniel H. Pink Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule. David Epstein examined the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable—generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Generalists often find their path late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one. They’re also more creative, more agile, and able to make connections their more specialized peers can’t see. Provocative, rigorous, and engrossing, Range makes a compelling case for actively cultivating inefficiency. Failing a test is the best way to learn. Frequent quitters end up with the most fulfilling careers. The most impactful inventors cross domains rather than deepening their knowledge in a single area. As experts silo themselves further while computers master more of the skills once reserved for highly focused humans, people who think broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive.

Author : Robert Pattison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1987-01-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195365030

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The Triumph of Vulgarity by Robert Pattison Pdf

The Triumph of Vulgarity in a thinker's guide to rock 'n' roll. Rock music mirrors the tradition of nineteenth-century Romaniticsm, Robert Patison says. Whitman's "barbaric yawp" can still be heard in the punk rock of the Ramones, and the spirit that inspired Poe's Eureka lives on in the lyrics of Talking Heads. Rock is vulgar, Pattison notes, and vulgarity is something that high culture has long despised but rarely bothered to define. This book is the first effort since John Ruskin and Aldous Huxley to describe in depth what vulgarity is, and how, with the help of ideas inherent in Romaniticism, it has slipped the constraints imposed on it by refined culture and established its own loud arts. The book disassembles the various myths of rock: its roots in black and folk music; the primacy it accords to feeling and self; the sexual omnipotence of rock stars; the satanic predilictions of rock fans; and rock's high-voltage image of the modern Prometheus wielding an electric guitar. Pattison treats these myths as vulgar counterparts of their originals in refined Romantic art and offers a description and justification of rock's central place in the social and aesthetic structure of modern culture. At a time when rock lyrics have provoked parental outrage and senatorial hearings, The Triumph of Vulgarity is required reading for anyone interested in where rock comes from and how it works.

Author : Jonathan Toothill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1783
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021780605

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The Foundation of the Dying Christian's Triumph, in the Prospect of Nature's Dissolution by Jonathan Toothill Pdf

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553900347

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Foundation by Isaac Asimov Pdf

The first novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire—both scientists and scholars—and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are among the most influential in the history of science fiction, celebrated for their unique blend of breathtaking action, daring ideas, and extensive worldbuilding. In Foundation, Asimov has written a timely and timeless novel of the best—and worst—that lies in humanity, and the power of even a few courageous souls to shine a light in a universe of darkness.

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553278392

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Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov Pdf

The first of two prequel novels in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall—those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire . . . the man who holds the key to the future—an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.