This visually stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan’s thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan’s remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, Cosmos is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together.The book also explores spacecraft missions of discovery of the nearby planets, the research in the Library of ancient Alexandria, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, the origin of life, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies and the origins of matter, suns and worlds.Sagan retraces the fifteen billion years of cos-mic evolution that have transformed matter into life and consciousness, enabling the Cosmos to wonder about itself. He considers the latest findings on life elsewhere and how we might communicate with the beings of other worlds.Cosmos is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus, Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huy-gens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason. Sagan looks at our planet from an extra-terrestrial vantage point and sees a blue jewel-like world, inhabited by a lifeform that is just beginning to discover its own unity and to ven-ture into the vast ocean of space.

Product Description: A best-selling science-fiction novel, first published in 1986, by a Pulitzer Prize-winner. In December 1999 a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who - or what - is out there?

The well-known astronomer and astrobiologist surveys current knowledge of the development of intelligence on Earth in various forms of life and explains his persuasion that intelligence must have developed along similar paths throughout the universe

Product Description: En "La diversidad de la ciencia", Carl Sagan plasma sus ideas sobre la relacion existente entre religion y ciencia, y describe su indagacion personal para entender la naturaleza de lo sagrado en la inmensidad del cosmos.

Product Description: "FASCINATING . . . MEMORABLE . . . REVEALING . . . PERHAPS THE BEST OF CARL SAGAN'S BOOKS."--The Washington Post Book World (front page review)In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world...read more

Product Description: Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consquences, and other provocative, fascinating quandries of the future that we want to see today...read more

Product Description: "A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought." *Los Angeles Times"POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing...read more

Carl Sagan's profound philosophical humility mixed with personal exuberance come through in this collection of interviews and profiles that show how Sagan, a lifelong skeptic, refined his views and expressed amazement that Earth encompasses everything about which he cared. Simultaneous.

Product Description: Carl Sagan explica en esta obra desde la prehistoria hasta la época actual, la evolución del ser humano en función del legado genético y del factor puramente intelectivo, habla de nuestros antepasados y de sus antagonistas, describe la mecnánica de nuestro cerebro y del de otros animales; y aclara las razones que nos facultan para sostener la existencia de otros seres inteligentes, lo bastante parecidos a nosotros, como para posibilitar la comunicación interestelar...read more

Product Description: In 1973, Carl Sagan published The Cosmic Connection, a daring view of the universe, which rapidly became a classic work of popular science and inspired a generation of scientists and enthusiasts. This seminal work is reproduced here for a whole new generation to enjoy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought." *Los Angeles Times"POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing...read more

Product Description: La única novela que escribió, Carl Sagan imagina una gran aventura, el primer encuentro del hombre con otros seres inteligentes.

Product Description: The only collection of the Pulitzer Prize winning astronomer's essay to appear on audio or in print.

The thirtieth and final book, a best-selling collection of essays, by the late, popular astronomer explores such topics as the origin and end of the universe and the scientific challenges of the twenty-first century. Reprint. NYT.

Product Description: "FASCINATING . . . MEMORABLE . . . REVEALING . . . PERHAPS THE BEST OF CARL SAGAN'S BOOKS."--The Washington Post Book World (front page review)In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world...read more

Product Description: This audio was recorded at the 50th anniversary celebration of the United Nations and features the Pulitzer-prize winning author Carl Sagan, as well as many of the world's leading religious and political leaders who each contribute their own visions for the next century.

Timed to coincide with the appearance of the comet Hale-Bopp, a revision of the 1985 best-seller--the definitive work about comets--takes the reader on a journey through space astride a comet and explores the myths surrounding comets. Original.

Product Description: WHAT ARE THESE GRACEFUL VISITORS TO OUR SKIES? WE NOW KNOW THAT THEY BRING BOTH LIFE AND DEATH AND TEACH US ABOUT OUR ORIGINS.Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan explore the origin, nature, and future of comets, and the exotic myths and portents attached to them...read more

An analysis of the potentially devastating consequences of nuclear war discusses the environmental impact of nuclear winter and proposes changes in international nuclear policies