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1) Foundation
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Foundation series volume 3
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English
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A band of psychologists, under the leadership of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, plants a colony to encourage art, science, and technology in the declining Galactic Empire and to preserve the accumulated knowledge of humankind
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William W. Cook Foundation lectures volume 7
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
©1953
Language
English
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Series
Foundation series volume 5
Language
English
Description
"The Foundation lies in ruins--destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity's annihilation. But it's rumored that there's a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the knowledge of mankind. Now a desperate race has begun between the survivors of the First Foundation and an alien entity to find this last flicker of humanity's shining past--and future hope. Yet the key to it all might be a fourteen-year-old...
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Vanuxem lectures volume 1929
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[1958, c1929]
Language
English
Description
Whitehead presented these three lectures at Princeton University in 1929. Although 85 years have passed, his central thesis and his analysis remain remarkably current. The scientific materialism that Whitehead opposed with such vigor continues to dominate in academic circles, and even now those who question that worldview are often accused of being anti-scientific. This is especially true in discussions of the nature of the human mind and its relation...
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[1959]
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English
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During months ... in 1929 ... and 1930, [the author] recorded Clackamas Chinook myths, tales, and ethnographic items in text and translation.... Upon completion of the manuscripts of both parts of the texts, [he] proceeded to study the content and style of the myths and tales. -Pref
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Description
First published in 1962, Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions "reshaped our understanding of the scientific enterprise and human inquiry in general." In it, he challenged long-standing assumptions about scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don't arise from the gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation, but instead occur outside of "normal science." Though Kuhn was writing when physics ruled the sciences,...
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Foundation series volume 4
Language
English
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"Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire--the mightiest force in the Galaxy--is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who--or what--is...
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