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

Billions and 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
Copyright HolderThe Estate Of Carl Sagan
PublisherHeadline Book Publishing
Typeset byLetterpart Limited
Printed and Bound byMackays of Chatham plc
Cover photoChris Bjornberg
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationLondon
Copyright1998
This Edition Published1998
Pages / Font246 pages
ISBN 100-7472-7703-6
Barcode9 780747 277033
Barcode (EAN)01299
Printer's Key10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Price£12.99 UK
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"? (co-written with Ann Druyan) 16. The Rules of the Game 17. Gettysburg and Now (co-written with Ann Druyan) 18. The Twentieth Century 19. In the Valley of the Shadow Epilogue by Ann Druyan A Few References and Suggestions for Further Reading Acknowledgements Index
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