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640 jokes, anecdotes, and limericks, complete with notes on how to tell them, from America's leading renaissance man.

The master of the science fiction genre makes a detour through the realm of humor, discussing such topics as sex, religion, marriage, and more

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, 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 mankind, 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 a fututre generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed.

Tells the stories behind the science - the men and women who made the important discoveries and how they did it. Ranging from Galilei, Achimedes, Newton and Einstein, this title takes the complex conc

Gathers sixty-two of the author's essays on topics ranging from creationism, censorship, and the population explosion to the social consequences of technological progress and the possibility of contac

From the use of metals by prehistoric man to the alchemical experiments of medieval and renaissance man to the complex chemical skills of contemporary man, Asimov traces the development of this buildi

It is the story of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psycho-historian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future h

High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce

One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story o

Fleeing an unknown assassin after surviving a radiation bomb planted in his dorm room, naive University of Earth student Biron Farrell is outraged by the subsequent murder of his father and finds hims