Norby the Mixed-Up Robot

Norby the Mixed-Up Robot
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1504095502

A Space Academy student and his time-travelling robot stop an evil villain from taking over the Solar System in this children’s sci-fi classic. Fourteen-year-old Jeff Wells, a cadet at the Space Academy on Mars, is in danger of being kicked out unless he can improve his grades. With a little help from the academy’s commandant, Jeff finds a robot named Norby to help him study. But Norby’s no ordinary robot. He has the only mini-anti-gravity device in existence. Norby’s special abilities suddenly come in handy when a villain named Ing targets Jeff’s older brother in his quest to conquer the Solar System. When Ing takes over Manhattan Island, renaming it “the Kingdom of Ing,” Norby and Jeff put studying aside to teach Ing a lesson!

Norby Down to Earth

Norby Down to Earth
Author: Janet Asimov
Publisher: Walker & Company
Total Pages: 107
Release: 1989
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9780802768667

Jeff Wells leaves the space academy with his mixed-up robot Norby and the two of them head back to Earth to help Jeff's brother unravel a mystery involving zapped robots and stolen computer parts.

Norby Finds a Villain & Norby Down to Earth

Norby Finds a Villain & Norby Down to Earth
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1504095537

In the sixth volume of the complete children’s sci-fi series, Jeff and Norby reunite with an adventurous princess and uncover the mystery of Norby’s maker. Norby Finds a Villain Jeff and his mixed-up robot, Norby, are joined by red-headed Rinda, Crown Princess of the planet Izz, and Rinda’s small robot, Pera. Their time-travelling adventures take them from the Pleistocene period to five hundred years into a false future. Along the way, they must tame evil forces of Ing the Incredible Ingrate and bring back the Others, the intelligent and wise beings from ancient times. Norby Down to Earth Jeff Wells has a space dynamics test coming up at the academy, but when he hears that his brother, Fargo, is in trouble down on Earth, he and Norby blast into hyperspace and head home to help. It turns out that Fargo has tripped into a mystery involving zapped robots and stolen computer parts. Norby, in his inimitable mixed-up way, manages to jump into the middle of the mystery through his research into MacGillicuddy, his maker. It seems that MacGillicuddy left behind a very strange family. . . .

The Norby Chronicles

The Norby Chronicles
Author: Janet Asimov
Publisher: Ace Books
Total Pages: 185
Release: 1986
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780441586349

Jeff Wells purchases a used robot named Norby to help him improve his grades at the Space Academy, but learns that Norby was constructed by a genius using parts from an alien spacecraft and has unexpected powers

Norby and the Invaders

Norby and the Invaders
Author: Janet Asimov
Publisher: Walker & Company
Total Pages: 138
Release: 1985
Genre: Robots
ISBN: 9780802766076

Jeff and his mixed-up robot, Norby, get involved in new adventures on a strange planet.

Norby and the Court Jester

Norby and the Court Jester
Author: Janet Asimov
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780783886107

From the masters of robot fiction, the acclaimed Norby books are puredelight for young and old alike. Now the Asimovs present the newest, most enchantingadventure of the one and only Norby . . . It's spring break for the students at the Space Academy, so Jeff Wells and his robotNorby are ready to have some fun! Unfortunately, they've decided to visit the planet Izz--where a sinister court jester is waiting with his evil bag of tricks.

The Creative Cure

The Creative Cure
Author: Jacob Nordby
Publisher: Hierophant Publishing
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1950253058

“I’m just not that creative” is a common refrain in today’s society. But according to author and creative coach Jacob Nordby, nothing could be further from the truth. Every human being is creative, and having a regular creative practice is a vital key to a happy and fulfilling life. If we don't exercise our creativity regularly, our lives can feel dull, stagnant, and rote. Many people live this way and believe “this is just the way life is,” without realizing that developing a regular creative practice can be the cure to what ails them. Nordby knows this all too well. By the time he reached his midthirties, he was running a successful mortgage company and lived in a big house with fancy cars. But he felt like he was dying inside. Starting and maintaining a creative practice is what saved his life. Now, in this powerful book, he explains how he traded in his stagnant way of life for one full of meaning and purpose, and offers specific steps to help you build your own creative practice. The Creative Cure is a call for a revolution, fostering change where all change must begin: within. This internal change will allow you to express your own creative gifts, cultivate happiness, and experience the unique feeling of fulfillment that only a creative practice can offer. Packed with powerful, transformative exercises, this book is the medicine you need to find and reinvigorate your creative soul.

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1990-09-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0393245209

"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.

Norby and the Terrified Taxi

Norby and the Terrified Taxi
Author: Janet Asimov
Publisher: Walker & Company
Total Pages: 125
Release: 1997
Genre: Robots
ISBN: 9780802786425

Jeff and Norby travel to Earth where a Manhattan taxi with a robot brain helps them investigate Garc the Great's connection with Computer Prime.