Billions and billions : thoughts on life and death at the brink of the millennium /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House ,
1997
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| Edition: | First edition. |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.