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

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

BookBillions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
Contributing WriterAnn Druyan
Author photo/portraitSam Jones
Book Design byJ.K. Lambert
Copyright HolderThe Estate Of Carl Sagan
PublisherRandom House
Cover/Jacket Design byAndy Carpenter
Copyright Holder (Cover/Jacket Design)Random House, Inc.
FormatHardback
LanguageEnglish
Copyright1997
Pages / Font241 pages / Bembo
ISBN 100-679-41160-7
Barcode9780679411604
EAN 552400
PriceU.S.A. $24.00
PriceCanada $33.50
Library of Congress Classification NumberQ173.S24 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification Number500—dc21
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number96-52730
Printer's Key4 6 8 9 7 5
Other6/97
UPC09012902400
UPC41160
ChaptersList 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
NotesPrinted 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.
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