36 lectures of 30 minutes - 244Mb - MP3 For most of its 5000 year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth. While the Roman Empire was at its zenith, China’s Han dynasty ruled over an empire superior in almost every measurable way, including technological advancement.
It is 498 years since the two Foundations came into existence - half-way through the Interregnum planned by Hari Seldon. The Second Foundation has once more successfully concealed its existence so that the laws of psychohistory can operate to usher in a new Empire ruled by the mental sciences.
Abel Guevuez de Argensola plunged into the depths of the South American jungles in search of gold. Instead, he discovered a strange and beautiful girl. He also encountered a tribe of savage Indians who were ruled by the laws of the wilderness and lived by the poisoned arrow.
The world ends, and the only ones left to rule are the sysadmins who were safe from the attacks in their server rooms. “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth,” - a new story about an apocalypse that arrives on the heels of a catastrophic Internet worm. When the trump sounds, the world’s systems administrators are all in their sealed data-centers, and so they survive the carnage.
The English and the Normans - Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation and Identity 1066 - c.1220
Since the Anglo-Norman period itself, the relations beween the English and the Normans have formed a subject of lively debate. For most of that time, however, complacency about the inevitability of assimilation and of the Anglicization of Normans after 1066 has ruled. This book first challenges that complacency, then goes on to provide the fullest explanation yet for why the two peoples merged and the Normans became English.
