Jest rok 2016. Trwa era kolonizacji przestrzeni kosmicznej. Na stacji zwanej Gwiezdną Puszką, umieszczonej na orbicie geostacjonarnej, 130 ludzi wznosiło potężne konstrukcje elektrowni słonecznych. To...
Selected papers from the Stone Weathering and Atmospheric Pollution NETwork conference held in June 2000. The papers demonstrate the breadth of research pertaining to stone decay, conducted within dis...
"A Short History of Decay (1949)" is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and wittycollection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization inmid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching upon Man's need t...
Children learn what bacteria are, how they cause tooth decay, and how they can fight against them. Told from the point of view of the bacteria, the fact-filled, rhyming text shows dentists in a non-th...
The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying...