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Provides background notes and explanations for all fourteen of Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas, and includes the complete text of each libretto

Asimov's Science Fiction magazine is filled with the most celebrated authors in the field of science fiction sharing their visions with stories that will launch you into the fantastic worlds of tomorrow. Subscription includes 6 double issues a year, which count as 12 issues towards a subscription. You will receive 6 physical issues, in a year, each of which counts as a double issue. Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Subscription, 12 Issues, Sci-Fi & Mystery Magazine Subscriptions magazines.com

Geographical and historical evidence illuminates the events and people of the Old Testament

Tales of dark magic, sinister spells, deadly vengeance, and terrifying powers highlight a collection featuring the work of Wilkie Collins, Robert Bloch, Arthur C. Clarke, and other authors

Provides background notes and explanations for all fourteen of Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas, and includes the complete text of each libretto

Coren Lanra, head of security for DyNan Manual Industries, investigates the murder of the daughter of DyNan's president Rega Looms during an ill-fated smuggling operation, and uncovers links to the past.

The history of the world from the big bang to modern times

A collection of articles from the 1960s on math, measurement, counting, or calendar.

Shakespeare's genius is marked by his rare ability to appeal to theatergoers of all types and all levels of education. But for most modern folks, the Greek and Roman mythology and history, let alone the history of England and the geography of sixteenth-century Europe that his works are laden with, are hardly within our grasp. Isaac Asimov comes to making obscure issues clear to the layperson, selects key passages from 38 of the great bard's plays plus two of his narrative poems and, with the help of beautifully rendered maps an figures, illuminates us about their historical and mythological background.

This wide-ranging collection represents the breadth of science fiction writing published in the most significant and enduring magazine in the field during the past three decades. Slipstream authors such as Jonathan Lethem, James Patrick Kelly, and Kelly Link mingle with classic authors like Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Connie Willis along with the young turks of the field Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, and Stephen Baxter. Featuring a well-balanced overview of both the classic and the contemporary, the book contains memorable stories from highly respected contributors to the science fiction genre such as Isaac Asimov’s Robot Dreams,” Bruce Sterling’s Dinner in Audoghast,” Jonathan Lethem’s The Happy Man,” Ursula LeGuin’s Ether, OR,” and Octavia E. Butler's "Speech Sounds.”

Asimov on Numbers [Sep 03, 1981] Isaac asimov

Asimov's Guide to Science By: Isaac Asimov 1972 Second Printing Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 72-76720 Sbn: 465-00472-5 Publisher: Basic Books, Inc. Printed in the United States of America Hardcover with Dust-jacket

This book is edited and introduced by Isaac Asimov. 12 short stories by such authors as Larry Niven, Alex Schomberg and Frederik S. Lord Jr.

Asimov 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, he takes the most complex concepts and explains it in such a way that a first-time reader on the subject feels confident on his/her understanding.

Geographical and historical evidence illuminates the events and people of the Old and New Testaments

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background — all to help you gain greater insight into great works you're bound to study for school or pleasure.In CliffsNotes on Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and Other Works, you explore the American author's original three Foundation books, the three Empire novels, The End of Eternity, and The Gods Themselves. The Foundation Trilogy, written between 1951-53 is celebrated science fiction writer Isaac Asimov's most famous work. In the three-book series, he portrays the ruin and rebirth of a futuristic interstellar empire.In this study guide, you'll find Life and Background on the Author, Introduction to Asimov's Science Fiction, and Critical Commentaries on Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation, plus a look inside the following other titles by this prolific writer:Pebble in the SkyThe Stars, Like DustThe Currents of SpaceThe End of EternityThe Gods ThemselvesClassic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

Fourteen chilling tales--including Charles L. Grant's "Come Dance With Me on my Pony's Grave," Parke Godwin's "The Fire When it Comes," and Isaac Asimov's "Author Author"--tells of ghosts returned on quests of justice, love, and vengeance

Why computers and people can't use the same number system - and more! With the clear, engaging style for which The New York Times has praised him for "Explaining complex material better than any other living person," Isaac Asimov - author of over 180 books ranging from science and science fiction to history, religion, literature, and geography - startles and fascinates as only he can. Here is Asimov's utterly engrossing exploration of the miraculous universe of numbers - from man's first act of counting to the highest mathematics, from the smallest living creature to the dazzling reaches of farthest space.

Asimov gathers together seventeen of his essays on numbers as they relate to measurement, the calendar science, the earth, and other topics

From the world's greatest science writer, a history of the world from the Big Bang to 1945, told in irresistible short takes and highlighted by a timeline.