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Infierno: (Incluye Descodificando a Dante) (Mayor Ser.)
by Dante AlighieriEl Infierno de Dante ha sido considerado el último gran texto épico de la Edad Media y el primero del Renacimiento. El Infierno de Dante ha sido considerado el último gran texto épico de la Edad Media y el primero del Renacimiento. Escrito a principios del siglo XIV, es la parte inaugural del proyecto magno dantesco: la Divina Comedia, un largo poema dividido en 99 cantos que describe el viaje alegórico de Dante desde el Infierno hasta el Paraíso, pasando por el Purgatorio, en busca de la fe, la redención y la iluminación. En el Infierno, Dante es guiado por Virgilio, el guardián de los saberes antiguos, y encuentra en cada uno de los círculos infernales a pecadores «pasados, presentes y futuros» de todo tipo. Esta aventura iniciática, que el poeta aprovecha para pasar cuentas con sus enemigos coetáneos, en lo político y lo religioso, esconde también en su núcleo y estructura un secreto que legiones deestudiosos han tratado de desvelar. Esta edición, que recupera una magnífica traducción en verso y se apoya en un rico aparato de notas, se abre asimismo con una nueva y esclarecedora introducción que ofrece una clave de lectura insólita: Dante como el depositario de un saber hermético, como la punta de lanza de una sociedad secreta cuyas raíces llegan hasta la esencia del cristianismo y cuyas ramas rozan la materia de nuestros días.
Infiernos de pasión (Los Kinsberly #Volumen 3)
by Evelin MordánUna historia donde el perdón no existe, pero el amor sí. Ella# Byron Kinsberly se lo arrebató todo, y estaba dispuesta a vengarse. Pero cuando entre ellos surge un amor inesperado e inoportuno, Sofía olvida su lucha contra él para luchar contra un enemigo que amenaza con dañar a lo que más le importa. Él# Sofía Jackson le devolvió las ganas de vivir. Y cuando más vivo se sentía, descubre un destructor secreto que lo sumirá en la más profunda oscuridad. Para salir, sin embargo, solo puede sacarlo la mujer que ama, a quien ha jurado crucificar en el infierno.
Infiernos de pasión (Los Kinsberly #Volumen 3)
by Evelin MordánTercera entrega de la serie «Los Kinsberly» Una historia donde el perdón no existe, pero el amor sí. Ella... Byron Kinsberly se lo arrebató todo, y estaba dispuesta a vengarse. Pero cuando entre ellos surge un amor inesperado e inoportuno, Sofía olvida su lucha contra él para luchar contra un enemigo que amenaza con dañar a lo que más le importa. Él... Sofía Jackson le devolvió las ganas de vivir. Y cuando más vivo se sentía, descubre un destructor secreto que lo sumirá en la más profunda oscuridad. Para salir, sin embargo, solo puede sacarlo la mujer que ama, a quien ha jurado crucificar en el infierno.
Infiltrated: How to Stop the Insiders and Activists Who Are Exploiting the Financial Crisis to Control Our Lives and Our Fortunes
by Jay W. RichardsWhat Every American Needs to Know About the War on Free Enterprise--and Freedom Itself. America: be warned. A new wave of financial reformers has infiltrated our public institutions at both the state and national levels. A growing army of self-proclaimed activists, philanthropists, and politicians has infiltrated not only the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but the FDIC, the Treasury, and other regulatory agencies. This explosive new book from New York Times bestselling author Jay W.
Infinite Ascent
by David BerlinskiIn Infinite Ascent, David Berlinski, the acclaimed author of The Advent of the Algorithm, A Tour of the Calculus, and Newton's Gift, tells the story of mathematics, bringing to life with wit, elegance, and deep insight a 2,500-year-long intellectual adventure.Berlinski focuses on the ten most important breakthroughs in mathematical history-and the men behind them. Here are Pythagoras, intoxicated by the mystical significance of numbers; Euclid, who gave the world the very idea of a proof; Leibniz and Newton, co-discoverers of the calculus; Cantor, master of the infinite; and Gödel, who in one magnificent proof placed everything in doubt. The elaboration of mathematical knowledge has meant nothing less than the unfolding of human consciousness itself. With his unmatched ability to make abstract ideas concrete and approachable, Berlinski both tells an engrossing tale and introduces us to the full power of what surely ranks as one of the greatest of all human endeavors.From the Hardcover edition.
Infinite Autonomy: The Divided Individual in the Political Thought of G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche
by Jeffrey ChurchG. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche are often considered the philosophical antipodes of the nineteenth century. In Infinite Autonomy, Jeffrey Church draws on the thinking of both Hegel and Nietzsche to assess the modern Western defense of individuality—to consider whether we were right to reject the ancient model of community above the individual. The theoretical and practical implications of this project are important, because the proper defense of the individual allows for the survival of modern liberal institutions in the face of non-Western critics who value communal goals at the expense of individual rights. By drawing from Hegelian and Nietzschean ideas of autonomy, Church finds a third way for the individual—what he calls the “historical individual,” which goes beyond the disagreements of the ancients and the moderns while nonetheless incorporating their distinctive contributions.
Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
by Adrian JohnstonSelfishness is essential to capitalism—or so both advocates and opponents claim. In Infinite Greed, Adrian Johnston argues that this consensus is mistaken. Through a novel synthesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis, he reveals how the relentless pursuit of profits is not fundamentally animated by human acquisitiveness. Instead, capitalism’s strange “infinite greed” demands that individuals sacrifice their pleasures, their well-being, and even themselves to serve inhuman capital.Johnston traces the mechanisms that compel capitalist subjects to obey the cold imperative to accumulate in perpetuity and without limits—and also without regard for the consequences for everyone and everything else. Facing crises such as spiraling wealth inequality and the profit-driven prospect of a looming ecological apocalypse, the rational self-interest of the majority would seem to dictate putting a stop to capitalist accumulation. By bringing together the Marxian critique of political economy with psychoanalytic metapsychology, Johnston shows why and how capitalism, rather than being responsive to people’s rationally selfish interests, disregards and overrides them instead.Unlike previous syntheses of Marxism and psychoanalysis, Infinite Greed pairs Freudian and Lacanian concepts with the economic heart of Marx’s historical materialism. In so doing, Johnston brings to light the complex intertwining of political and libidinal economies keeping us invested and complicit in perpetuating capitalism and its ills.
Infinite Mobilization
by Peter SloterdijkThe core of what we refer to as ‘the project of modernity’ is the idea that human beings have the power to bring the world under their control, and hence it is based on a ‘kinetic utopia’: the movement of the world as a whole reflects the implementation of our plans for it. But as soon as the kinetic utopia of modernity is exposed, its seemingly stable foundation cracks open and new problems appear: things don’t happen according to plan because as we actualize our plans, we set in motion other things that we didn’t want as unintended side-effects. We watch with mounting unease as the self-perpetuating side-effects of modern progress overshadow our plans, as a foreign movement breaks off from the very core of the modern project supposedly guided by reason and slips away from us, spinning out of control. What looked like a steady march towards freedom turns out to be a slide into an uncontrollable and catastrophic syndrome of perpetual mobilization. And precisely because so much comes about through our actions, these developments turn out to have explosive consequences for our self-understanding, as we begin to realize that, so far from bringing the world under our control, we are instead the agents of our own destruction.In this brilliant and insightful book Sloterdijk lays out the elements of a new critical theory of modernity understood as a critique of political kinetics, shifting the focus of critical theory from production to mobilization and shedding new light on a world facing the growing risk of humanly induced catastrophe.
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
by Steven StrogatzFrom preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of calculus—how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better. Without calculus, we wouldn&’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn&’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket.Though many of us were scared away from this essential, engrossing subject in high school and college, Steven Strogatz&’s brilliantly creative, down-to-earth history shows that calculus is not about complexity; it&’s about simplicity. It harnesses an unreal number—infinity—to tackle real-world problems, breaking them down into easier ones and then reassembling the answers into solutions that feel miraculous.Infinite Powers recounts how calculus tantalized and thrilled its inventors, starting with its first glimmers in ancient Greece and bringing us right up to the discovery of gravitational waves (a phenomenon predicted by calculus). Strogatz reveals how this form of math rose to the challenges of each age: how to determine the area of a circle with only sand and a stick; how to explain why Mars goes &“backwards&” sometimes; how to make electricity with magnets; how to ensure your rocket doesn&’t miss the moon; how to turn the tide in the fight against AIDS.As Strogatz proves, calculus is truly the language of the universe. By unveiling the principles of that language, Infinite Powers makes us marvel at the world anew.
Infinite Regress: The Theory and History of Varieties of Change
by Nicholas RescherRegression addresses what has come before; it is a matter of looking backward of retrospections? The motionless things of nature are generally forward-looking their problem is that of the question: Where do we go from here? It is primarily with intelligent beings that we ask: How did we get to where we now find ourselves? Regression and infinite regression in particular is thus a concept that has gained a greater prominence in the human sciences than in the sciences of nature. Argumentation to infinite regress has long been a favored instrument of philosophical dialectic. Philosophers have used it to disprove the positions they model to criticize. Infinite regresses, so they reason, are unrealizable: they cannot be completed so as to achieve some definitive result. And thereby anything that would engender an infinite regress is automatically made ineffective. Infinite Regress examines the theory of regression and includes information on the topics of vicious regress, innocuous regress, circularity regress, and propositional regress. Also discussed is the history of regression stemming from ancient times, to medieval times, to early modern history. Some of the other chapters in this book focus on world class philosophers including Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and Bertrand Russell. The book will play a significant role in theoretical philosophy as well as in social philosophy and the philosophy of mind.
Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea
by Adrienne J. CohenIn Guinea’s capital city of Conakry, dance is everywhere. Most neighborhoods boast at least one dance troupe, and members of those troupes animate the city’s major rites of passage and social events. In Infinite Repertoire, Adrienne Cohen shows how dance became such a prominent—even infrastructural—feature of city life in Guinea, and tells a surprising story of the rise of creative practice under a political regime known for its authoritarianism and violent excesses. Guinea’s socialist state, which was in power from 1958 to 1984, used staged African dance or “ballet” strategically as a political tool, in part by tapping into indigenous conceptualizations of artisans as powerful figures capable of transforming the social fabric through their manipulation of vital energy. Far from dying with the socialist revolution, Guinean ballet continued to thrive in Conakry after economic liberalization in the 1980s, with its connection to transformative power retrofitted for a market economy and a rapidly expanding city. Infinite Repertoire follows young dancers and percussionists in Conakry as they invest in the present—using their bodies to build a creative urban environment and to perform and redefine social norms and political subjectivities passed down from the socialist generation before them. Cohen’s inventive ethnography weaves the political with the aesthetic, placing dance at the center of a story about dramatic political change and youthful resourcefulness in one of the least-studied cities on the African continent.
Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea
by Adrienne J. CohenIn Guinea’s capital city of Conakry, dance is everywhere. Most neighborhoods boast at least one dance troupe, and members of those troupes animate the city’s major rites of passage and social events. In Infinite Repertoire, Adrienne Cohen shows how dance became such a prominent—even infrastructural—feature of city life in Guinea, and tells a surprising story of the rise of creative practice under a political regime known for its authoritarianism and violent excesses. Guinea’s socialist state, which was in power from 1958 to 1984, used staged African dance or “ballet” strategically as a political tool, in part by tapping into indigenous conceptualizations of artisans as powerful figures capable of transforming the social fabric through their manipulation of vital energy. Far from dying with the socialist revolution, Guinean ballet continued to thrive in Conakry after economic liberalization in the 1980s, with its connection to transformative power retrofitted for a market economy and a rapidly expanding city. Infinite Repertoire follows young dancers and percussionists in Conakry as they invest in the present—using their bodies to build a creative urban environment and to perform and redefine social norms and political subjectivities passed down from the socialist generation before them. Cohen’s inventive ethnography weaves the political with the aesthetic, placing dance at the center of a story about dramatic political change and youthful resourcefulness in one of the least-studied cities on the African continent.
Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea
by Adrienne J. CohenIn Guinea’s capital city of Conakry, dance is everywhere. Most neighborhoods boast at least one dance troupe, and members of those troupes animate the city’s major rites of passage and social events. In Infinite Repertoire, Adrienne Cohen shows how dance became such a prominent—even infrastructural—feature of city life in Guinea, and tells a surprising story of the rise of creative practice under a political regime known for its authoritarianism and violent excesses. Guinea’s socialist state, which was in power from 1958 to 1984, used staged African dance or “ballet” strategically as a political tool, in part by tapping into indigenous conceptualizations of artisans as powerful figures capable of transforming the social fabric through their manipulation of vital energy. Far from dying with the socialist revolution, Guinean ballet continued to thrive in Conakry after economic liberalization in the 1980s, with its connection to transformative power retrofitted for a market economy and a rapidly expanding city. Infinite Repertoire follows young dancers and percussionists in Conakry as they invest in the present—using their bodies to build a creative urban environment and to perform and redefine social norms and political subjectivities passed down from the socialist generation before them. Cohen’s inventive ethnography weaves the political with the aesthetic, placing dance at the center of a story about dramatic political change and youthful resourcefulness in one of the least-studied cities on the African continent.
Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood and the Future in an Age of Crisis and Disaster
by Tom WhymanA philosophical memoir about becoming a father in an increasingly terrible world – can I hope the child growing in my partner's womb will have a good-enough life?A philosophical memoir about becoming a father in an increasingly terrible world. Can I hope the child growing in my partner&’s womb will have a good-enough life? For Kant, philosophy boiled down to three key questions: &“What can I know?&”, &“What ought I do?&”, and &“What can I hope for?&” In philosophy departments, that third question has largely been neglected at the expense of the first two – even though it is crucial for understanding why anyone might ask them in the first place. In Infinitely Full of Hope, as he prepares to become a father for the first time, the philosopher Tom Whyman attempts to answer Kant&’s third question, trying to make sense of it in the context of a world that increasingly seems like it is on the verge of collapse. Part memoir, part theory, and part reflection on fatherhood, Infinitely Full of Hope asks how we can cling to hope in a world marked by crisis and disaster.
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
by Amir AlexanderOn August 10, 1632, five leading Jesuits convened in a sombre Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine would become the foundation of calculus, but on that fateful day the judges ruled that it was forbidden. With the stroke of a pen they set off a war for the soul of the modern world. Amir Alexander takes us from the bloody religious strife of the sixteenth century to the battlefields of the English civil war and the fierce confrontations between leading thinkers like Galileo and Hobbes. The legitimacy of popes and kings, as well as our modern beliefs in human liberty and progressive science, hung in the balance; the answer hinged on the infinitesimal. Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal will forever change the way you look at a simple line.
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
by Amir AlexanderPulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery, innovation, and intellectual achievement-and it will forever change the way you look at a simple line.On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a deceptively simple proposition: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and infinitely tiny parts. With the stroke of a pen the Jesuit fathers banned the doctrine of infinitesimals, announcing that it could never be taught or even mentioned. The concept was deemed dangerous and subversive, a threat to the belief that the world was an orderly place, governed by a strict and unchanging set of rules. If infinitesimals were ever accepted, the Jesuits feared, the entire world would be plunged into chaos.In Infinitesimal, the award-winning historian Amir Alexander exposes the deep-seated reasons behind the rulings of the Jesuits and shows how the doctrine persisted, becoming the foundation of calculus and much of modern mathematics and technology. Indeed, not everyone agreed with the Jesuits. Philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians across Europe embraced infinitesimals as the key to scientific progress, freedom of thought, and a more tolerant society. As Alexander reveals, it wasn't long before the two camps set off on a war that pitted Europe's forces of hierarchy and order against those of pluralism and change.The story takes us from the bloody battlefields of Europe's religious wars and the English Civil War and into the lives of the greatest mathematicians and philosophers of the day, including Galileo and Isaac Newton, Cardinal Bellarmine and Thomas Hobbes, and Christopher Clavius and John Wallis. In Italy, the defeat of the infinitely small signaled an end to that land's reign as the cultural heart of Europe, and in England, the triumph of infinitesimals helped launch the island nation on a course that would make it the world's first modern state.From the imperial cities of Germany to the green hills of Surrey, from the papal palace in Rome to the halls of the Royal Society of London, Alexander demonstrates how a disagreement over a mathematical concept became a contest over the heavens and the earth. The legitimacy of popes and kings, as well as our beliefs in human liberty and progressive science, were at stake-the soul of the modern world hinged on the infinitesimal.
Infinity
by Michael Heller W. Hugh Woodin"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite. " - David Hilbert This interdisciplinary study of infinity explores the concept through the prism of mathematics and then offers more expansive investigations in areas beyond mathematical boundaries to reflect the broader, deeper implications of infinity for human intellectual thought. More than a dozen world‐renowned researchers in the fields of mathematics, physics, cosmology, philosophy, and theology offer a rich intellectual exchange among various current viewpoints, rather than displaying a static picture of accepted views on infinity. The book starts with a historical examination of the transformation of infinity from a philosophical and theological study to one dominated by mathematics. It then offers technical discussions on the understanding of mathematical infinity. Following this, the book considers the perspectives of physics and cosmology: Can infinity be found in the real universe? Finally, the book returns to questions of philosophical and theological aspects of infinity.
Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969–1989 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
by Jay Gallentine Bobak FerdowsiInfinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent and engaging style, Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own. These dedicated space pioneers include such individuals as Soviet Russia’s director of planetary missions, who hated his job but kept at it for fifteen years, enduring a paranoid bureaucracy where even the copy machines were strictly regulated. Based on numerous interviews, Gallentine delivers a rich variety of stories involving the men and women, American and Russian, responsible for such groundbreaking endeavors as the Mars Viking missions of the 1970s and the Soviet Venera flights to Venus in the 1980s. From the dreamers responsible for the Venus landing who discovered that dropping down through heavy clouds of sulfuric acid and 900-degree heat was best accomplished by surfing to the five-man teams puppeteering the Soviet moon rovers from a top-secret, off-the-map town without a name, the people who come to life in these pages persevered in often trying, thankless circumstances. Their legacy is our better understanding of our own planet and our place in the cosmos.
Infinity Ring Secrets #1: Shipwrecked (Infinity Ring Secrets #1)
by E. W. ClarkeSecret adventures from the world of Infinity Ring. Only in e-book! Only 99 cents! Ferdinand Columbus is the son of the world's most famous explorer, but that doesn't mean he's cut out for adventure. His worst fears come true when he and the rest of his father's crew are stranded on an island far from home. Surrounded by sharks and running low on supplies, the sailors seem doomed. But does the son of Columbus somehow hold the key to their salvation? INFINITY RING SECRETS is a series of stand-alone short stories blending real history with the action and suspense of the INFINITY RING series. History is broken, and only the secret society of Hystorians knows why . . . and how to fix it. These are some of the stories! Read all seven digital short stories to unlock an exclusive medal for your INFINITY RING game account at scholastic.com/infinityring.
Infinity Ring Secrets #2: Ashes to Ashes (Infinity Ring Secrets #2)
by E. W. ClarkeSecret adventures from the world of Infinity Ring. Only in e-book! Only 99 cents! Marcus lives in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. Like the rest of the population of Pompeii, he believes the volcano is nothing but a harmless mountain. He's about to learn how wrong he is. . . . INFINITY RING SECRETS is a series of stand-alone short stories blending real history with the action and suspense of the INFINITY RING series. History is broken, and only the secret society of Hystorians knows why . . . and how to fix it. These are some of the stories! Read all seven digital short stories to unlock an exclusive medal for your INFINITY RING game account at scholastic.com/infinityring.
Infinity Ring Secrets #3: On Thin Ice (Infinity Ring Secrets #3)
by E. W. ClarkeSecret adventures from the world of Infinity Ring. Only in e-book! Only 99 cents! Lulu and her brother, Eddie, don't always see eye to eye. But when an expedition to the South Pole goes terribly wrong, they know they must work together to survive the frozen landscape. It's up to them to locate the diary of a fallen Hystorian . . . before it falls into the wrong hands! INFINITY RING SECRETS is a series of stand-alone short stories blending real history with the action and suspense of the INFINITY RING series. History is broken, and only the secret society of Hystorians knows why . . . and how to fix it. These are some of the stories! Read all seven digital short stories to unlock an exclusive medal for your INFINITY RING game account at scholastic.com/infinityring.
Infinity Ring Secrets #4: Blood and Ink (Infinity Ring Secrets #4)
by E. W. ClarkeSecret adventures from the world of Infinity Ring. Only in e-book! Only 99 cents! Swan has been a slave to the hated Empress Wu for nearly her entire life. But Swan has a secret. Unlike other slaves, she can read. More than that, she can write . . . and she writes beautiful poetry. Will Swan's talents be the key to her survival, or will they lead to her ultimate doom? INFINITY RING SECRETS is a series of stand-alone short stories blending real history with the action and suspense of the INFINITY RING series. History is broken, and only the secret society of Hystorians knows why . . . and how to fix it. These are some of the stories! Read all seven digital short stories to unlock an exclusive medal for your INFINITY RING game account at scholastic.com/infinityring.
Infinity Ring Secrets #5: Entombed (Infinity Ring Secrets #5)
by E. W. ClarkeSecret adventures from the world of Infinity Ring. Only in e-book! Only 99 cents! Akil is the most talented young thief in Cairo. But picking pockets is easy compared to his new assignment: breaking into the Great Pyramid in a race to uncover a long-buried secret of ancient Egypt. INFINITY RING SECRETS is a series of stand-alone short stories blending real history with the action and suspense of the INFINITY RING series. History is broken, and only the secret society of Hystorians knows why . . . and how to fix it. These are some of the stories! Read all seven digital short stories to unlock an exclusive medal for your INFINITY RING game account at scholastic.com/infinityring.
Infinity Ring Secrets #6: Up in Flames (Infinity Ring Secrets #6)
by E. W. ClarkeSecret adventures from the world of Infinity Ring. Only in e-book! Only 99 cents! Mario is a beggar on the streets of Florence whose life is changed forever the day he is painted by a great artist. Suddenly Mario is swept up in a world of intrigue, wealth . . . and murder. Will he survive the firestorm that is coming for Florence's great works of art? INFINITY RING SECRETS is a series of stand-alone short stories blending real history with the action and suspense of the INFINITY RING series. History is broken, and only the secret society of Hystorians knows why . . . and how to fix it. These are some of the stories! Read all seven digital short stories to unlock an exclusive medal for your INFINITY RING game account at scholastic.com/infinityring.
Infinity Ring Secrets #7: Unchained (Infinity Ring Secrets #7)
by E. W. ClarkeSecret adventures from the world of Infinity Ring. Only in e-book! Only 99 cents! Margaret has left behind the comforts of London to join her parents on the frontier of Australia. She's expecting her new life to be rugged. But she has no idea of the true dangers that await her in the Outback . . . not until she befriends a young outlaw who draws her into a deadly conspiracy. INFINITY RING SECRETS is a series of stand-alone short stories blending real history with the action and suspense of the INFINITY RING series. History is broken, and only the secret society of Hystorians knows why . . . and how to fix it. These are some of the stories! Read all seven digital short stories to unlock an exclusive medal for your INFINITY RING game account at scholastic.com/infinityring.