Through a Glass, Clearly
Isaac Asimov's 1967 UK anthology, Through a Glass, Clearly, collects four novelettes. Featuring "It's Such a Beautiful Day" and "Belief", stories explore science, technology, and human nature themes.
Environments Out There
Isaac Asimov’s Environments Out There is a concise, engaging exploration of the solar system and beyond, tailored for young readers. Structured as a progressive journey from the Moon to distant stars, Asimov examines each celestial body’s environment, assessing its potential to support human life.
Asimov's Mysteries
Excerpts from Asimov's science fiction mysteries detail investigations into scientific puzzles, strange phenomena, and crimes, featuring unique characters and logical deduction.
Is Anyone There
Based on the sources and our conversation, the book contains Asimov's essays exploring the known and unknown universe: life's science, cosmic scale, future possibilities, and humanity's search for alien life, asking Is Anyone There?
The Roman Empire
Asimov's Roman Empire covers a fascinating age with brilliant personalities, Rome's system of laws, and its stamp on a great Eastern religion. Presented lucidly.
The Moon
From ancient mystery, understanding gravity and developing rockets enabled human exploration. The Moon became a vivid study, a journey of knowledge continuing.
From Earth to Heaven
Asimov's essays in From Earth to Heaven contrast mythical lost lands with scientific wonders, finding true romance in physics, statistics, and the universe's puzzling nature.
The Universe From Flat Earth to Quasar
The sources explore the universe's scale from Earth to quasars, detailing star/galaxy evolution, explosions novae/supernovae, star types Cepheids, white dwarfs, distance measurements, and the Big Bang theory.
The Roman Republic
Isaac Asimov's The Roman Republic details Rome's history from its legendary origins through the end of the Republic.
The Noble Gases
The sources detail the history, discovery, properties, abundance, isotopes, compounds, and uses of the noble gases, emphasizing their surprising inertness.
An Easy Introduction to the Slide Rule
Asimov introduces the slide rule, a simple pocket computer solving numerical problems like multiplication, division, powers, and roots using logarithms.
Of Time and Space and Other Things
The reader is presented with the Awareness of mortality, humans measure time, map space, and use science to grasp the universe's limits and their species' puzzling longevity, discarding obsolete knowledge.