Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Kids | 3 June 2009
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Every day Isaac the Ice Cream Truck drives through the streets, singing his song and bringing ice cream to the people of the city. Even though he makes everyone happy, Isaac begins to doubt himself. He's not the biggest truck or the fastest truck or the strongest truck. Isaac wishes that he were special too. This is a warmhearted story with a satisfying ending, when Isaac learns that even a small ice cream truck can make a big difference. The music and lyrics for Isaac's ice cream song are printed on the book's last page.
In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics which ensure that humans remain superior and the robots are kept in their rightful place. But an insane robot logically deduces its superiority to non-rational humanity
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Coursebooks | 17 July 2007
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Isaac Newton (Lives and Legacies Series)
This slim introduction to Newton accents the personality as it lays out the science.
Christianson presents traits in the adolescent Newton that flowered or festered when he became an adult, such as his childlike curiosity and his smoldering capacity for hatred. To be blunt, Newton was a disagreeable character. The list of Newton's feuds is long and occurred throughout his life: he fought with his mother and, when he became famous, with Robert Hooke, astronomer John Flamsteed, mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, philosopher John Locke, and who knows how many unrecorded tradesmen.
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Audiobooks | 6 July 2007
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Isaac Newton and His Apple
Unabridged
Read by Geoffrey Palmer
Total Duration: 1:17:46
You've probably heard of Isaac Newton...
He is horribly famous for:
- discovering gravity
- getting hit on the head with an apple.
But have you heard that Isaac:
- came bottom of class at school?
- poked sticks in his eye and nearly blinded himself?
Yes, even though he's dead, Isaac's still full of surprises.
Now you can get the inside story with Isaac's undiscovered diary and find out how the whole world was turned upside-down by an apple.