Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long.
The New English-Polish and Polish-English Kosciuszko Foundation Dictionary
CD version!, first ever
bilingual dictionary of American English contains over 140.000 entries,
400.000 meanings and 100.000 idioms and fixed phrases; gives specific
British as well as Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and South-African
usage; contains abundant technical and specialized vocabulary in such
areas as law, economy, computers, the military, medicine, mass media,
sports, botany and zoology; provides literary and colloquial
expressions, slang, archaic words, idioms and fixed phrases; presents
use of words in context illustrated by a large number of original
sentences. The New Kosciuszko Foundation Dictionary on CD-ROM contains:
- all the entries from both the volumes; - grammatical information; -
phonetic transcription; lets the user: - select the language of
messages; - make word searches; - copy entries straight into documents;
- make extended full-text searches; - keep track of previuos searches;
- access the dictionary from within other applications; - add new
entries to the dictionary or delete the existing ones.
Kościuszko Foundation Dictionary
The second best Polish-English-Polish dictionary.
Huge lexical base: 140.000 entries with 400.000 meanings and 100.000 idioms; specialized vocabulary.
Useful not just for the speakers of Polish.
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Isaac Asimov - Foundation
first book in foundation series
Foundation is the first book in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy (later expanded into The Foundation Series). It is a collection of five short stories, which were first published together as a book by Gnome Press in 1951. It also appeared in 1955 as part of Ace Double D-110 under the title "The 1,000-Year Plan." Four of the stories were originally published in Astounding Magazine (with different titles) between 1942 and 1944, and the fifth was added when they first appeared in book form. Decades later, Asimov wrote two prequels to it. Later writers have added authorized tales to the series.
This popular book helps bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysing the things we are told and read. It gives strategies for responding to alternative points of view and will help readers develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject.