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

List Of Illustrations Part 1 - 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. Religiion 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