Carl Sagan's cosmic connection : an extraterrestrial perspective /
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| Author / Creator: | Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996 |
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| Uniform title: | Cosmic connection |
| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. |
| Description: | xxxi, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4812386 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Carl Sagan: A New Sense of the Sacred
- Preface
- Part 1. Cosmic Perspectives
- 1.. A Transitional Animal
- 2.. The Unicorn of Cetus
- 3.. A Message from Earth
- 4.. A Message to Earth
- 5.. Experiments in Utopias
- 6.. Chauvinism
- 7.. Space Exploration as a Human Enterprise I. The Scientific Interest
- 8.. Space Exploration as a Human Enterprise II. The Public Interest
- 9.. Space Exploration as a Human Enterprise III. The Historical Interest
- Part 2. The Solar System
- 10.. On Teaching the First Grade
- 11.. "The Ancient and Legendary Gods of Old"
- 12.. The Venus Detective Story
- 13.. Venus Is Hell
- 14.. Science and "Intelligence"
- 15.. The Moons of Barsoom
- 16.. The Mountains of Mars I. Observations from Earth
- 17.. The Mountain of Mars II. Observations from Space
- 18.. The Canals of Mars
- 19.. The Lost Pictures of Mars
- 20.. The Ice Age and the Cauldron
- 21.. Beginnings and Ends of the Earth
- 22.. Terraforming the Planets
- 23.. The Exploration and Utilization of the Solar System
- Part 3. Beyond the Solar System
- 24.. Some of My Best Friends Are Dolphins
- 25.. "Hello, Central Casting? Send Me Twenty Extraterrestrials"
- 26.. The Cosmic Connection
- 27.. Extraterrestrial Life: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
- 28.. Has the Earth Been Visited?
- 29.. A Search Strategy for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- 30.. If We Succeed ...
- 31.. Cables, Drums, and Seashells
- 32.. The Night Freight to the Stars
- 33.. Astroengineering
- 34.. Twenty Questions: A Classification of Cosmic Civilizations
- 35.. Galactic Cultural Exchanges
- 36.. A Passage to Elsewhen
- 37.. Starfolk 1. A Fable
- 38.. Starfolk 2. A Future
- 39.. Starfolk 3. The Cosmic Cheshire Cats
- Epilog to Carl Sagan's The Cosmic Connection
- About the Author, Producer, and Contributors
- Index
