The Barefoot Hiker
A Brief History of Time
Coming Out to Parents
Cosmos
Cosmos
by Carl Sagan1980, Random House, ISBN: 0-394-50294-9
This visually stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations,
many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan's thirteen-part
television series. Told with Sagan's remarkable ability to make scientific
ideas both comprehensible and exciting, Cosmos is about science in its
broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together.
The book also explores spacecraft missions of discovery of the nearby planets,
the research in the Library of ancient Alexandria, the human brain, Egyptian
hieroglyphics, the origin of life, the death of the Sun, the evolution of
galaxies and the origins of matter, suns and worlds.
Sagan retraces the fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have
transformed matter into life and consciousness, enabling the Cosmos to wonder
about itself. He considers the latest findings on life elsewhere and how we
might communicate with the beings of other worlds.
Cosmos is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces
and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus,
Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huygens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason. Sagan looks
at our planet from an extra-terrestrial vantage point and sees a blue
jewel-like world, inhabited by a lifeform that is just beginning to discover
its own unity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.
Crazy English
Dove
Endangered Pleasures
Finding True Love in a Man-Eat-Man World
HAL's Legacy
The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide
Mutant Message Down Under
Odyssey
Silicon Snake Oil