The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal ‘world tour’ of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in search of traces of astronomical knowledge and lore of the sky. In the second part, Giulio Magli uses the elements presented in the tour to show that the fundamental idea which led to the construction of the astronomically-related giant monuments was the foundation of power, a foundation which was exploited by ‘replicating’ the sky.

[thumb=left]http://englishtips.org/uploads/posts/2007-10/1191185192_foundation_and_empire.jpg[/thumb]Isaac Asimov - Foundation and Empire
second book in foundation series

Foundation and Empire is a novel written by Isaac Asimov that was published by Gnome Press in 1952. It is the second book in the Foundation Series. It takes place in two halves, originally published as separate novellas.
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This novel describes the events that occurred in the centuries before the opening events in Asimov's first Foundation books.

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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.

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Members of the First Foundation establish contact with the telepathic robots of the planet Gaia and with their aid go on to search for humanity's long-lost ancestral planet, Earth. This is the sixth volume in the Foundation selection of books.

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