Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
Author: Carl Sagan
Translator: Han-young Kim
Publisher: Science Books
H/C | 350 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly
examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe
around us. These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness
of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such
fascinating questions as how did the universe originate and how will it
end, and how can we meld science and compassion to meet the challenges
of the coming century? Here, too, is a rare, private glimpse of Sagan's
thoughts about love, death, and God as he struggled with fatal disease.
Ever forward-looking and vibrant with the sparkle of his unquenchable
curiosity, Billions & Billions is a testament to one of the great
scientific minds of our day.
Carl Sagan was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space
Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell
University; Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; and the cofounder and
President of the Planetary Society, the largest space-interest group in
the world. For the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, he was
an adviser on the Mariner, Voyager, and Viking unmanned space missions,
and he briefed astronauts for journeys to the moon. His Peabody
Award-winning public television series, Cosmos, has been seen by more
than 500 million people in over sixty countries, and the accompanying
book spent seventy weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. The
author of thirty books, Sagan was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The
Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence in
1978, and his novel Contact, is now a major motion picture. In their
posthumous award to Dr. Sagan of their highest honor, the National
Science Foundation declared that his research transformed planetary
science ... his gifts to mankind were infinite.
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