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 |
| 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. |
| About/Subject | Politics, Climate Change, Religion, Environment, Cosmology |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | United States |
| Copyright | 1997 |
| Pages / Font | 241 pages |
| ISBN 10 | 0-679-41160-7 |
| Barcode (EAN) | 0-780679 411604 |
| EAN 5 | 52400 |
| UPC | 0-90129 02400 1 |
| UPC 5 | 41160 |
| 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 | 6 8 9 7 5 |
| Other | 6/97 |
| 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 |
| 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. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sagan, Carl Billions and billions: thoughts on life and death at the brink of the millennium/Carl Sagan p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-679-41160-7 1. Science---Miscellanea---Popular works. I. Title. Q173.S24 1997 500---dc21 96-52730 |
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