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 ruins–destroyed 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 time–but 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 destroyed…before it destroys them.
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 know forever after as the Foundation.
Ostali autori: Clara Di Meglio Opis: Talijanski novinari Valentini i Di Meglio snimili su na magnetofonskoj vrpci kroz rešetke ispovjedaonice po čitavoj Italiji šest stotina trideset i šest razgovora o goručim i mučnim pitanjma spolnosti u modernom društvu. Na taj su način prikupili istinitu dokumentaciju koja pruža dovoljno ozbiljnu i objektivnu polaznu točku za analizu sakramenata pokore u Katoličkoj crkvi koja je danas u dubokoj i sve većoj krizi.
Odgovori na najčešća roditeljska pitanja o odgoju djece. Priručnik obiteljskog odgoja, namijenjen roditeljima. U prvom dijelu knjige daje se suvremeni pristup metodici odgojnog rada u obitelji i u okviru toga razmatraju se preduvjeti, granice i moć, te obilježja dobrog obiteljskog odgoja. U drugome su dijelu obrađene teme izabrane na osnovu najčešćih pitanja koje roditelji postavljaju u vezi s odgojem svoje djece. Ove teme stoga mogu poslužiti odgajateljima i razrednicima za individualne kontakte s roditeljima i pripremanje roditeljskih sastanaka. Tekst je popraćen primjerima iz prakse, crticama iz literature, odlomcima učeničkih i stručnih radova, te prijedlozima, idejama i poticajima na razmišljanje kako bi se pronašla najprikladnija rješenja i za svakodnevne situacije, a i za probleme u roditeljskoj odgojnoj praksi.
The Hyperion books are credited with single-handedly reinventing and reinvigorating SF in the 1990s. A broad canvased, hugely imaginative and exciting SF epic, the books draw on the works of Keats and provide a uniquely intelligent and literary approach with cutting edge science, compelling characterisation and edge-of-your-seat excitement. The story is continued in ENDYMION and THE RISE OF ENDYMION, which Gollancz will also be publishing in an omnibus volume.
Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy. It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives–even the Emperor himself–against Imperial orders. But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world. Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself fighting a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.
In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-years from Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of the dire threat that nemesis poses to Earth’s people–but she is prevented from warning them. Soon she will realize that Nemesis endangers Rotor as well. And so it will be up to her alone to save both Earth and Rotor as–drawn inexorably by Nemesis, the death star–they hurtle toward certain disaster. A totally new and original work that stretches his talents to their fullest. . .welcome back, champ!– The Detroit News
A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov’s Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Detective Elijah Baiey is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide. The prime suspect is a gifted roboticist who had the means, the motive, and the opportunity to commit the crime. There’s only one catch: Baley and his positronic partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, must prove the man innocent. For in a case of political intrigue and love between woman and robot gone tragically wrong, there’s more at stake than simple justice. This time Baley’s career, his life, and Earth’s right to pioneer the Galaxy lie in the delicate balance.
A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots–unthinkable under the laws of Robotics–or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!
Metodika elementarne nastave materinskog jezika i matematike
Hrvatski protestantski pokret XVI. i XVII. stoljeća. U prvome dijelu daje se opći uvod u europska zbivanja prije reformacije te razvoj četiri tradicije reformacije i vodeće reformatore iz svake tradicije. U drugome dijelu prikazuje se širenje reformacijem među Hrvatima u hrvatskim povijesnim zemljama i među ugarskim Hrvatima. U trećem se dijelu obrađuju velikani hrvatskoga protestantskoga pokreta, primjerice Matija Vlačić Ilirik, Petar Pavao Vergerije ml., Ivan Ungnad, Stipan Konzul, porodica Zrinski i ostali. U četvrtom dijelu obrađuju se hrvatska protestantska izdanja.
Tekst na engleskom jeziku. Na području bivše Jugoslavije postoji veoma mali broj arboretuma, gdje se zainteresirani mogu upoznati s većim brojem autohtonog i stranog drveća i grmlja. Zbog toga je postojanje takvog objekta na području Slavonije posebno značajno.
Autobiografski zapisi docenta psihijatrije na sveučilištu Cornell u New Yorku rođenog 1930. godine u bogatoj židovskoj obitelji u Lavovu u Poljskoj. Kako su predratna i ratna zbivanja pogodila ponajprije i u najvećoj mjeri Židove, izmjenjivali se režimi – nacistička i sovjetska okupacija – podjednako neskloni Židovima, osobito onima bogatima. Zaigrano i bezbrižno djetinjstvo nasilno je prekinuto i dječak se na najgrublji način upoznao s okrutnostima ratnoga okruženja i ljudskoga društva uopće. Kroz ove nevolje i životne opasnosti spasio ga je ponekad slučaj, ali više od svega toplina i ljubav majke i sestre te golema duhovna snaga.
Desant na Drvar maja 1994.: drvarska operacija
Ilustracije: Kate Hindley
Podcrtavano olovkom. Autor daje prikaz hrvatske političke povijesti od ulaska u Habsburšku monarhiju pa do suvremenih zbivanja (zaključeno sa 1992. godinom).
Ostali autori: Vlatka Lemić (ur.) Marija Benić Penava (ur.) Opis: Povijest hrvatske političke emigracije u 20. stoljeću. Zbornik radova.
