The first volume in Issac Asimov's world-famous saga winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series Long after Earth was forgotten a peaceful & unified galaxy took shape an Empire governed from the majestic city-planet of Trantor The system worked & grew for countless generations Everyone believed it would work forever Everyone except Hari Seldon As the great scienctific thinker of his age Seldon could not be ignored Reluctantly the Commission of Public Safety agreed to finance the Seldon Plan The coming disaster was predicted by Seldon's advances in psychohistory the mathematics of very large human numbers & it could not be averted The Empire was doomed Soon Trantor would lie in ruins Chaos would overtake humanity But the Seldon Plan was a long term strategy to minimize the worst of what was to come Two Foundations were set up at opposite ends of the galaxy Of the Second nothing can be told It guards the secrets of psychohisotry FOUNDATION is the story of the First Foundation on the remote planet of Terminus from which those secrets were withheld ...

Foundation & Empire is the story of first contact between the two Foundations of Hari Seldon The Seldon Plan guided the First Foundation safely through two centuries of chaos as the Galactic Empire disintegrated Seldon's recorded holographic image appeared in the Council Chamber on Terminus at moments of crisis predicted by pshychohistory & his voice was heard Even war between the Foundation & the remains of the Empire was foreseen
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- by the great scientist But Seldon had no way of predicting the birth of the Mule a mutant of uncanny power & unlimited ambition The Mule's conquests are effortless & his subjects mind-controlled slaves The Foundation is powerless against the supernormal force the Mule exerts The Seldon Plan is in tatters Two men & a woman from Terminus flee to the ruins of might Trantor in an effort to discover where the mysterious Second Foundation was established Its help is needed desperately against the mental powers of the Mule But the Mule using those same astonishing powers is also looking for the Second Foundation

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It is the story of the Galactic Empire crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule & it is the particular story of psycho-historian Hari Seldon the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store a dark age of ignorance barbarism & violence that will last for thirty thousand years Gathering together a band of courageous men & women Seldon leads them to a hidden location at the edge of the galaxy where he hopes they can preserve human knowledge & wisdom against all who would destroy them Asimov went on to add numerous sequels & prequels to the trilogy building up what has become known as the Foundation series but it is the original three books first published in the Forties & Fifties which remain the most powerful imaginative & breathtaking ...

It is 498 years since the two Foundations came into existence
- half-way through the Interregnum planned by Hari Seldon The Second
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Foundations for the LPC covers the compulsory foundation areas of the Legal Practice Course as set out in the LPC outcomes professional conduct tax & revenue law & wills & administration of estates The book also discusses human rights law a topic now taught pervasively across the LPC course Using worked examples & scenarios throughout to illustrate key points this guide is essential reading for all students & a useful reference source for practitioners To aid understanding & test comprehension of the core material checkpoints & summaries feature in every chapter Online Resource Centre Online resources accompanying the text include useful web links forms & diagrams ...

New full colour edition of this bestselling beginners' classroom text now including video & an interactive e-book with each print copy Foundation Languages courses are tailor-made for IWLPs in the HE sector with lively exercises integrated pair- & groupwork & a self-study section The course fits neatly into the 20-24 week teaching year 208 pages 150 Illustrations black & white; 208 p 150 illus Bissar Dounia ...

New full colour edition of this bestselling beginners' classroom text now including video & an interactive e-book with each print copy Foundation Languages courses are tailor-made for IWLPs in the HE sector with lively exercises integrated pair- & groupwork & a self-study section The course fits neatly into the 20-24 week teaching year 208 pages 100 Illustrations black & white; 208 p 100 illus Benetti Mara ...

In recent years the airline industry has experienced severe volatility in earnings with airlines recording periods of substantial profits that are closely followed by periods of financial distress This trend has continued into the new millennium with numerous examples of airlines across the globe entering bankruptcy protection or liquidating The text provides an introduction to both the basics of finance & the particular intricacies of airline finance where there can be significant fluctuations in both revenues & costs This new edition also

Includes:: capital budgeting management of current assets financial risk analysis fuel hedging aircraft leasing This textbook contains chapters that cover unique aspects of the aviation financial decision-making process These include a rigorous & structured presentation of the buy versus lease decision that is prevalent in the industry a valuation process for aviation assets the recent trend toward privatization & the difficulty inherent in the valuation of a publicly-owned or semi-publicly owned asset The Foundations of Airline Finance now in its second edition is an introductory text that can be used either as a general financial text or in a specialized class that deals with aviation finance in particular

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Unlike books currently on the market this book attempts to satisfy two goals combine circuits & electronics into a single unified treatment & establish a strong connection with the contemporary world of digital systems It will introduce a new way of looking not only at the treatment of circuits but also at the treatment of introductory coursework in engineering in general Using the concept of ''abstraction'' the book attempts to form a bridge between the world of physics & the world of large computer systems In particular it attempts to unify electrical engineering & computer science as the art of creating & exploiting successive abstractions to manage the complexity of building useful electrical systems Computer systems are simply one type of electrical systems ...