Best Of Carl Sagan - April 2024

Cosmos

RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOXCosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Featuring a new Introduction by Sagan’s collaborator, Ann Druyan, full color illustrations, and a new Foreword by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of l... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345539435
• ASIN: 0345539435
• ISBN: 9780345539434
• Brand: Carl Sagan
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Carl Sagan Tribute (Angelo Montesu Remix)

• ASIN: B00ATLWGFC
• ASIN: B00ATLWGFC
• Manufacturer: Sound Academy Records

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace“A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought.”—Los Angeles Times How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345409469
• UPC: 884184345306
• ASIN: 0345409469
• ISBN: 0345409469
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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 f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345379187
• ASIN: 0345379187
• ISBN: 0345379187
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Carl Sagan Tribute (Original Mix)

• ASIN: B00ATLWF26
• ASIN: B00ATLWF26
• Manufacturer: Sound Academy Records

Contact: A Novel

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cosmos and renowned astronomer Carl Sagan’s international bestseller about the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of space remains the “greatest adventure of all time” (Associated Press).The future is here…in an adventure of cosmic dimension. When a signal is discovered that seems to come from far beyond our solar system, a multinational team of scientists decides to find the source. What follows is an eye-opening journey out to the stars to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who—or what—is out there? Why are they watc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501197983
• ASIN: 1501197983
• ISBN: 1501197983
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

Music of Cosmos: Selections from the Score of the Television Series "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

REMASTERED TWO DISC SET.

• ASIN: B00006HCVP
• UPC: 804387110020
• ASIN: B00006HCVP
• Manufacturer: Cosmos Studios / BMG

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review)In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345376595
• ASIN: 0345376595
• ISBN: 0345376595
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Conversations with Carl Sagan (Literary Conversations)

Though a well-regarded physicist Carl Sagan (1934-1996) is best-known as a writer of popular nonfiction and science fiction and as the host of the PBS series Cosmos. Through his writings and spoken commentary, he worked to popularize interests in astronomy, the universe, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. From the beginning of his public career, when he co-wrote Intelligent Life in the Universe to the very end as he worked on the 1997 film adaptation of his novel Contact, these subjects absorbed him. This interest in space was rooted in his understanding of the smallness and vulner... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1578067367
• ASIN: 1578067367
• ISBN: 1578067367
• Brand: Brand: University Press of Mississippi
• Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi

Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

A fascinating book on the joys of discovering how the world works, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cosmos and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.“Magnificent . . . Delightful . . . A masterpiece. A message of tremendous hope for humanity . . . While ever conscious that human folly can terminate man’s march into the future, Sagan nonetheless paints for us a mind-boggling future: intelligent robots, the discovery of extraterrestrial life and its consequences, and above all the challenge and pursuit of the mystery of the universe.”—Chicago Tribune“Go out and buy this book, because... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345336895
• UPC: 000345336895
• ASIN: 0345336895
• ISBN: 0345336895
• Brand: Sagan, Carl
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spirituality The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design, and a new concept of science as "informed worship." Originally presented at... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143112627
• ASIN: 0143112627
• ISBN: 0143112627
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and an... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393609391
• ASIN: 0393609391
• ISBN: 9780393609394
• Brand: Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Carl Sagan and Immanuel Velikovsky

• ASIN: 1561840750
• ASIN: 1561840750
• ISBN: 1561840750
• Manufacturer: New Falcon Pubns

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

“A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday . . . It's a delight.”—The New York TimesDr. 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. “How can I persuade every intelligent person to read this important and elegant book? . . . He talks about all kinds of things: the why of the pain of human childbirth . . . the reason for slee... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345346297
• ASIN: 0345346297
• ISBN: 9780345346292
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Endless Forms Most Beautiful

NIGHTWISH ENDLESS FORMS MOST BEAUTIFUL (2CD)

• ASIN: B00S6K4UMK
• UPC: 727361346409
• ASIN: B00S6K4UMK
• Brand: Nuclear Blast Americ
• Manufacturer: Nuclear Blast America

Star Stuff : Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos

"A biography of Carl Sagan focusing on his childhood and culminating in the Voyager mission and the Golden Record"--Provided by

• UPC: 38181290
• Rating: 5.0

SEE YOU IN THE COSMOS CARL SAGAN

Books : SEE YOU IN THE COSMOS CARL

• UPC: 757734784
• Rating: 4.333

Carl Went to the Library: The Inspiration of a Young Carl Sagan (Hardcover)

Blast off with Carl as he embarks on a curious journey. An adventure to find the answer to a question that no one seems to be able to give him an answer to. Encouraged by

• UPC: 736239935

The Sagan Conspiracy : Nasa's Untold Plot to Suppress the People's Scientist's Theory of Ancient Aliens

Mainstream SETI scientists and ancient alien theorists don't agree on much, but one opinion they share is that the undisputed authority on the possibility of alien existence was the late Carl Sagan (1934--1996), whose voluminous

• UPC: 51979814

Conversations with Carl Sagan

9781578067367

• UPC: 3912007

A Few Great Scientists : From Alfred Nobel to Carl Sagan

A FEW GREAT SCIENTISTS - DELUCCA, JORGE

• UPC: 696735712

Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems : (American Poets Project #23)

9781598531008

• UPC: 5063337
• Rating: 3.0

Webster's Carl Sagan Picture Quotes - eBook

This is a curated and special collection of picture quotes from Carl Sagan. Motivational quotes, inspirational quotes, and pure wisdom with an occasional joke or funny quote from Carl

• UPC: 984019994

Carl Sagan and Immanuel Velikovsky - eBook

About this book... Since the publication of Worlds in Collision, Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky's unconventional theories of the origin of the solar system have generated immense interest and bitter controversy. Chief among his critics has been

• UPC: 427956254

Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen - eBook

Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen

• UPC: 470456586
• Rating: 4.0