Books by Carl Sagan

Purchase 'The Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought, which offers him marvelous opportunities to entertain us with his own childhood experiences, the newspaper morgues, UFO stories, and the assorted flotsam and jetsam of pseudoscience. Along the way he debunks alien abduction, faith-healing, and channeling; refutes the arguments that science destroys spirituality, and provides a "baloney detection kit" for thinking through political, social, religious, and other issues.

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Purchase "Billions & Billions" by Carl Sagan

In this day and age, when religion and far right and far left political believes want to ban science from places it can do some good (like in classrooms and in the public debate about issues that affect all mankind).... SCIENCE Needs Public Relations to help it out. If it isn't for people like Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov and other PR men of science, Evolution and Physics would be little more than an afterthought in education.... taught right after they finish telling all the students that Far Right Wing Wacko Republican equals good... and any other voice or opinion is evil and must be killed as soon as possible.

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After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, a team of international scientists believe they've found a message from an intelligent source--and they'll travel deep into space to meet it. Carl Sagan injects Contact, his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. Sagan meditates on science, religion, and government--the elements that define society--and looks to their impact on and role in the future.

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The best-selling science book ever published in the England language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today's knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy in a wholly energetic and irresistible way.

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Carl Sagan returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consequences, and other provocative, fascinating quandaries of the future that we want to see today.

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Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan explore the origin, nature, and future of comets, and the exotic myths and portents attached to them. The authors show how comets have spurred some of the great discoveries in the history of science and raise intriguing questions about these brilliant visitors from the interstellar dark. Were the fates of the dinosaurs and the origins of humans tied to the wanderings of a comet? Are comets the building blocks from which worlds are formed?

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Sagan continues the scientific voyage suggesting that our survival depends on the exploration and settlement of other worlds, and advocating spending "billions and billions" on ditching this lovely planet. He discusses the Voyager and other space expeditions, characteristics of galaxies, and conditions on other planets.

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Purchase "Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors" by Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a "Roots" for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits--self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics--are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals. Astonishing in its scope, brilliant in its insights, and an absolutely compelling read, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a triumph of popular science.

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Purchase "Dragons Of Eden" by Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries.

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