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Historia y cronología del mundo: La historia del mundo desde el Big Bang hasta 1945

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Desde el inicio de la agricultura al auge de la industria, de los orígenes de las sociedades tribales a las democracias modernas, del descubrimiento del fuego al de la fisión nuclear.

944 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

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Isaac Asimov

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Works of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles, The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.

Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.

Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).

People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.

Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.

Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.

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March 20, 2021
Empecé a leer este libro hace más de un año. Es el libro más extenso que leí y en el que más tiempo tarde. Sin embargo, su tamaño no reduce la calidad de la información histórica que contiene. Aprendí más de la historia universal y la historia de mi país que en todos los libros de historia que estudié en colegio o documentales que veía en la TV. La contextualización y objetividad histórica de Azimov no tienen comparación. Fue un libro que cambió muchísimo mi forma de ver e interpretar la historia. Creo que toda persona debería leer este libro.
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