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Billions and billions : thoughts on life and death at the brink of the millennium / Carl Sagan.
Record details
- ISBN: 0679411607
- ISBN: 9780679411604
- Physical Description: xii, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c1997.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-234) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Billions and billions -- The Persian chessboard -- Monday-night hunters -- The gaze of God and the dripping faucet -- Four cosmic questions -- So many suns, so many worlds -- The world that came in the mail -- The environment: where does prudence lie? -- Croesus and Cassandra -- A piece of the sky is missing -- Ambush: the warming of the world -- Escape from ambush -- Religion and science: an alliance -- The common enemy -- Abortion: is it possible to be both "pro-life" and "pro-choice"? (cowritten with Ann Druyan) -- The rules of the game -- Gettyburg and now (cowritten with Ann Druyan)-- The twentieth century -- In the valley of the shadow -- Epilogue (Anne Druyan).
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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