Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
| Book | Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | 1997 |
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| Author | Carl Sagan |
| Contributing Writer | Ann Druyan |
| Author photo/portrait | Sam Jones |
| Book Design by | J.K. Lambert |
| Copyright Holder | The Estate Of Carl Sagan* |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Andy Carpenter |
| Copyright Holder (Cover/Jacket Design) | Random House, Inc. |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | 1997 |
| Pages / Font | 241 pages / Bembo |
| ISBN 10 | 0-679-41160-7 |
| Barcode | 9780679411604 |
| EAN 5 | 52400 |
| Price | U.S.A. $24.00 |
| Price | Canada $33.50 |
| Library of Congress Classification Number | Q173.S24 1997 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification Number | 500—dc21 |
| Library of Congress Catalog Card Number | 96-52730 |
| Printer's Key | 4 6 8 9 7 5 |
| Other | 6/97 |
| UPC | 09012902400 |
| UPC | 41160 |
| Chapters | List of Illustrations
Part I: The Power and Beauty of Quantification
1. Billions and Billions
2. The Persian Chessboard
3. Monday-Night Hunters
4. The Gaze of God and the Dripping Faucet
5. Four Cosmic Questions
6. So Many Suns, So Many Worlds
Part II: What Are Conservatives Conserving?
7. The World That Came in the Mail
8. The Environment: Where Does Prudence Lie?
9. Croesus and Cassandra
10. A Piece of the Sky Is Missing
11. Ambush: The Warming of the World
12. Escape from Ambush
13. Religion and Science: An Alliance
Part III: Where Hearts and Minds Collide
14. The Common Enemy
15. Abortion: Is It Possible to Be Both "Pro-Life" and "Pro-Choice"? (cowritten with Ann Druyan)
16. The Rules of the Game
17. Gettysburg and Now (cowritten with Ann Druyan)
18. The Twentieth Century
19. In the Valley of the Shadow
Epilogue by Ann Druyan
Acknowledgements
References
Index List of Illustrations
Part I: The Power and Beauty of Quantification
1. Billions and Billions
2. The Persian Chessboard
3. Monday-Night Hunters
4. The Gaze of God and the Dripping Faucet
5. Four Cosmic Questions
6. So Many Suns, So Many Worlds
Part II: What Are Conservatives Conserving?
7. The World That Came in the Mail
8. The Environment: Where Does Prudence Lie?
9. Croesus and Cassandra
10. A Piece of the Sky Is Missing
11. Ambush: The Warming of the World
12. Escape from Ambush
13. Religion and Science: An Alliance
Part III: Where Hearts and Minds Collide
14. The Common Enemy
15. Abortion: Is It Possible to Be Both "Pro-Life" and "Pro-Choice"? (cowritten with Ann Druyan)
16. The Rules of the Game
17. Gettysburg and Now (cowritten with Ann Druyan)
18. The Twentieth Century
19. In the Valley of the Shadow
Epilogue by Ann Druyan
Acknowledgements
References
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| Notes | Printed in U.S.A. The title appears as "Billions & Billions" on the cover, spine, and back cover; and as "Billions and Billions" on the title page. |