Carl Sagan
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...
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Cosmos
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Cosmology; Science - Meteorology; Science - Reference
978-0-345-53943-4 (0-345-53943-5)
January 28, 2014 | $17.00
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...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Cosmology; Science - Meteorology; Science - Reference
978-0-345-53943-4 (0-345-53943-5)
January 28, 2014 | $17.00
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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...
Murmurs of Earth
eBook | 276 pages | Ballantine Books | Science
978-0-307-80202-6 (0-307-80202-7)
April 2, 2013 | $14.99
In 1977, two extraodinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copped phonograph record as a message to possible extra-terrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft in some distant space and time. Each record contained 118 photographs of our planet; almost 90...
Written by Carl Sagan
eBook | 276 pages | Ballantine Books | Science
978-0-307-80202-6 (0-307-80202-7)
April 2, 2013 | $14.99
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In 1977, two extraodinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copped phonograph record as a message to possible extra-terrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft in some distant space and time. Each record contained 118 photographs of our planet; almost 90...
Dragons of Eden
eBook | 288 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Environmental Science; Science - Reference; Nature - Reference
978-0-307-80100-5 (0-307-80100-4)
September 26, 2012 | $7.99
Dr. 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.
"A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen...
Written by Carl Sagan
eBook | 288 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Environmental Science; Science - Reference; Nature - Reference
978-0-307-80100-5 (0-307-80100-4)
September 26, 2012 | $7.99
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Dr. 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.
"A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen...
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Billions & Billions
eBook | 320 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Cosmology; Science - Reference; Science - Astronomy
978-0-307-80102-9 (0-307-80102-0)
July 6, 2011 | $13.99
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...
Written by Carl Sagan
eBook | 320 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Cosmology; Science - Reference; Science - Astronomy
978-0-307-80102-9 (0-307-80102-0)
July 6, 2011 | $13.99
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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...
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trade paperback.
Broca's Brain
eBook | 416 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Cosmology; Science - Reference; Nature - Star Observation
978-0-307-80099-2 (0-307-80099-7)
July 6, 2011 | $8.99
Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, 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 consquences, and other provocative, fascinating quandries of the future that we want to see today.
From...
Written by Carl Sagan
eBook | 416 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Cosmology; Science - Reference; Nature - Star Observation
978-0-307-80099-2 (0-307-80099-7)
July 6, 2011 | $8.99
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Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, 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 consquences, and other provocative, fascinating quandries of the future that we want to see today.
From...
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Comet, Revised
eBook | 432 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Cosmology; Science - Astronomy; Science - Space Science
978-0-307-80105-0 (0-307-80105-5)
July 6, 2011 | $12.99
WHAT ARE THESE GRACEFUL VISITORS TO OUR SKIES? WE NOW KNOW THAT THEY BRING BOTH LIFE AND DEATH AND TEACH US ABOUT OUR ORIGINS.
Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan explore the origin...
Written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
eBook | 432 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Cosmology; Science - Astronomy; Science - Space Science
978-0-307-80105-0 (0-307-80105-5)
July 6, 2011 | $12.99
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WHAT ARE THESE GRACEFUL VISITORS TO OUR SKIES? WE NOW KNOW THAT THEY BRING BOTH LIFE AND DEATH AND TEACH US ABOUT OUR ORIGINS.
Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan explore the origin...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Cosmos
eBook | 352 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Cosmology; Science - Meteorology; Science - Reference
978-0-307-80098-5 (0-307-80098-9)
July 6, 2011 | $7.99
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...
Written by Carl Sagan
eBook | 352 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Cosmology; Science - Meteorology; Science - Reference
978-0-307-80098-5 (0-307-80098-9)
July 6, 2011 | $7.99
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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...
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paperback and a
trade paperback.
Demon-Haunted World
eBook | 480 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Philosophy & Social; Science - Reference; Science - Methodology
978-0-307-80104-3 (0-307-80104-7)
July 6, 2011 | $15.99
"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
"POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing."
*The...
Written by Carl Sagan
eBook | 480 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Philosophy & Social; Science - Reference; Science - Methodology
978-0-307-80104-3 (0-307-80104-7)
July 6, 2011 | $15.99
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"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
"POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing."
*The...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Pale Blue Dot
eBook | 384 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Astrophysics & Space Science; Science - Cosmology; Science - Reference
978-0-307-80101-2 (0-307-80101-2)
July 6, 2011 | $13.99
"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...
Written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
eBook | 384 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Astrophysics & Space Science; Science - Cosmology; Science - Reference
978-0-307-80101-2 (0-307-80101-2)
July 6, 2011 | $13.99
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"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...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
eBook | 528 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Human Physiology; Science - Genetics; Science - Evolution
978-0-307-80103-6 (0-307-80103-9)
July 6, 2011 | $15.99
"Dazzling...A feast. Absorbing and elegantly written, it tells of theorigins of life on earth, describes its variety and charaacter, and culminates in a discussion of human nature and teh complex traces ofhumankind's evolutionary past...It is an amazing story masterfully told."
FINANCIAL TIMES (LONDON)
World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan...
Written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
eBook | 528 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Human Physiology; Science - Genetics; Science - Evolution
978-0-307-80103-6 (0-307-80103-9)
July 6, 2011 | $15.99
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"Dazzling...A feast. Absorbing and elegantly written, it tells of theorigins of life on earth, describes its variety and charaacter, and culminates in a discussion of human nature and teh complex traces ofhumankind's evolutionary past...It is an amazing story masterfully told."
FINANCIAL TIMES (LONDON)
World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Billions & Billions
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Cosmology; Science - Reference; Science - Astronomy
978-0-345-37918-4 (0-345-37918-7)
May 12, 1998 | $21.00
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...
Written by Carl Sagan
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Cosmology; Science - Reference; Science - Astronomy
978-0-345-37918-4 (0-345-37918-7)
May 12, 1998 | $21.00
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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...
Also available as an
eBook.
Pale Blue Dot
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Astrophysics & Space Science; Science - Cosmology; Science - Reference
978-0-345-37659-6 (0-345-37659-5)
September 8, 1997 | $19.95
"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...
Written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Astrophysics & Space Science; Science - Cosmology; Science - Reference
978-0-345-37659-6 (0-345-37659-5)
September 8, 1997 | $19.95
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"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...
Also available as an
eBook.
Comet, Revised
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Cosmology; Science - Astronomy; Science - Space Science
978-0-345-41222-5 (0-345-41222-2)
February 25, 1997 | $34.00
WHAT ARE THESE GRACEFUL VISITORS TO OUR SKIES? WE NOW KNOW THAT THEY BRING BOTH LIFE AND DEATH AND TEACH US ABOUT OUR ORIGINS.
Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan explore the origin...
Written by Carl Sagan
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Cosmology; Science - Astronomy; Science - Space Science
978-0-345-41222-5 (0-345-41222-2)
February 25, 1997 | $34.00
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WHAT ARE THESE GRACEFUL VISITORS TO OUR SKIES? WE NOW KNOW THAT THEY BRING BOTH LIFE AND DEATH AND TEACH US ABOUT OUR ORIGINS.
Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan explore the origin...
Also available as an
eBook.
Demon-Haunted World
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Philosophy & Social; Science - Reference; Science - Methodology
978-0-345-40946-1 (0-345-40946-9)
February 25, 1997 | $21.00
"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
"POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing."
*The...
Written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Philosophy & Social; Science - Reference; Science - Methodology
978-0-345-40946-1 (0-345-40946-9)
February 25, 1997 | $21.00
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"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
"POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing."
*The...
Also available as an
eBook.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Human Physiology; Science - Genetics; Science - Evolution
978-0-345-38472-0 (0-345-38472-5)
September 7, 1993 | $21.00
"Dazzling...A feast. Absorbing and elegantly written, it tells of theorigins of life on earth, describes its variety and charaacter, and culminates in a discussion of human nature and teh complex traces ofhumankind's evolutionary past...It is an amazing story masterfully told."
FINANCIAL TIMES (LONDON)
World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan...
Written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Ballantine Books | Science - Human Physiology; Science - Genetics; Science - Evolution
978-0-345-38472-0 (0-345-38472-5)
September 7, 1993 | $21.00
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"Dazzling...A feast. Absorbing and elegantly written, it tells of theorigins of life on earth, describes its variety and charaacter, and culminates in a discussion of human nature and teh complex traces ofhumankind's evolutionary past...It is an amazing story masterfully told."
FINANCIAL TIMES (LONDON)
World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan...
Also available as an
eBook.
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