Asimov, Isaac,  1920-1992, <br/><br/>
Foundation / 
Isaac Asimov. 
 - Bantam trade paperback edition. 
 - 244 pages ;  21 cm. 
 - The Foundation novels ;  [2] .
 - Asimov, Isaac,  1920-1992.  Foundation series ;  2. .
<br/><br/> Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1951. 
<br/><br/>Psychohistorians -- Encyclopedists -- Mayors -- Traders -- Merchant princes. 
<br/><br/> A band of psychologists, under the leadership of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, plants a colony to encourage art, science, and technology in the declining Galactic Empire and to preserve the accumulated knowledge of humankind. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780553382570 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Seldon, Hari (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Historians--Fiction.<br/>Psychohistory--Fiction.<br/>Prophecy--Fiction.<br/>Archives--Fiction.<br/>Space colonies--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Science fiction.<br/>Short stories.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.54