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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

8 reviews
Carl Sagan

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007

A Gift to Mankind--Cosmos Vision for Leaders
I have ten pages of notes on this book. It is a beautifully presented volume of lectures that includes slides and stunning color photographs in the body. The forward by Ann Druyan, editor, has several noteworthy lines: + He believed that the little we do know about nature suggests that we know even less about God. + His argument was not with God but with those who believed that our ...

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

51 reviews
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

Ballantine Books, 1993

What a wonderful book
Although a Carl Sagan fan since I was a student, I never heard of this book. I learned about it by hearing it mentioned on a radio show on NPR. I am now about halfway through it, and I can't believe that I never read this book before. A required read for anyone interested in science, and more specifically, our place as humans in terms of the larger cosmos. Well-written, insightful, and containing ...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

388 reviews
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

Ballantine Books, 1997

Sharpen your critical thinking skills
It's hard enough to understand how Sagan could know as much about astronomy as he did, let alone the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. But that his range of knowledge was also as wide as this book demonstrates on pseudo-science and supernaturalisms is stunning, even more that he could write so well on all these topics. I wasn't aware just how evil the treatment of witches was: I'm glad ...

Contact

315 reviews
Carl Sagan

Pocket, 1997

A wonderful story about first contact.
This was a great story. I am a science and astronomy buff so this was right up my ally. Sagan did a wonderful job and I love how he put an agnostic scientist in the place of not being able to prove the experience she had with aliens. I read this book years ago and when the movie came out I couldn't wait to see it. Sagan was a wonderful human being and tread lightly when it came to the beliefs of ...

Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

37 reviews
Carl Sagan

Ballantine Books, 1986

The antidote to science class
Most of us who have been educated in the American public school system quickly learned to dread science classes as one of the more boring times of the day. The study of science class in elementary school was usually a teacher reading the text and often being reluctant to address any questions that were not covered in the teacher's edition. In high school the teacher (often hired more for their ...

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

57 reviews
Carl Sagan

Ballantine Books, 1997

Perspective from Pluto
As I write this review, scientists around the world are in one more tizzy about whether Pluto is a planet, and exactly what a planet is. They are missing the boat, or spaceship as it were. Pick up a copy of Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot," and it becomes clearer. Just take the much longer view, courtesy of Sagan's vivid and creative mind. No matter how many times I read it, the look back at our ...

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

57 reviews
Carl Sagan

Penguin Press HC, The, 2006

Brilliant
Although I am the first to acknowledge I could not write a book of the quality of any (or almost any) I review, I usually do not feel so much in the presence of a great thinker as I did when reading this book. Perhaps the last time I felt it was when reading Darwin's The Origin Of Species I can say this after just having read and been so impressed by Dawkins The God Delusion but it was in ...

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

63 reviews
Carl Sagan

Ballantine Books, 1986

A masterpiece science for the average reader
Note: I made some Mormon reader angry over my negative reviews of books written by Mormons out to prove the Book of Mormon, and that person has been slamming my reviews almost as soon as they are posted. Oh, well Your "helpful" votes are appreciated. Thanks, and note that a short review is not necessarily a bad review if it leads you to a great book. A reviewer at the "Boston Globe" said it ...

Cosmos

153 reviews
Carl Sagan

Ballantine Books, 1985

Brilliant!
Carl Sagan's book and TV series called Cosmos has opened the vast universe to millions and millions of people. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book and watching the series. It is not surprising that Cosmos is the best-selling science book ever published in the English language...and the series has been seen by half a billion people! Carl Sagan was able to accomplish this feat by tapping ...

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

71 reviews
Carl Sagan

Ballantine Books, 1998

At the end of a remarkable life
As he knowingly faced the end, Sagan bravely shared his views on a number of subjects: science, politics, philosophy, and the environment. Here are the departing words from a man who spent his life in search of knowledge about nature, not in pursuit of wealth. His admonitions come across as genuine, and his motivations are altruistic. He suggests that some of mankind's present course is noble, ...

Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective

6 reviews
Carl Sagan

Cambridge University Press, 2000

The Musings of A Great Intellect
While it was first published over twenty five years ago and new scientific knowledge has rendered some of the "facts" and conclusions invalid, this book is still one that will fascinate you. For Sagan's writings are not about the knowledge of the moment but about grand, overwhelming ideas. Known to most people through his television appearances and his popular science books, he was a man with ...

Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

1 review
Carl Sagan

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2005

Did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?
This book is a timely and fortunate publishing in these days of division on the evolution vs. creationism. Only one thing. It was written almost 30 years ago by uber-genius, Carl Sagan. And boy he really covers it all in this relatively small book on such a vast subject. He vulgarises well enough for the layman to understand, although it doesn't get informationally dense at times. What did you ...

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Carl Sagan

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985, 1985

Comet, Revised

12 reviews
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

Ballantine Books, 1997

Ameteur and Armchair Astronomers will love this book
I would classify myself as the Armchair type - I don't own a telescope, and shamefully I do not know my constellations, but I have enjoyed many popular books on the subject. Having just finished reading this book I am sorely tempted to get a telescope or at least go out and find a local star party (where ameteur astronomers set up their equipment and gladly share viewing opportunities with ...

The Cold and the Dark: The World After Nuclear War

1 review
Paul, R. Ehrlich, Carl Sagan, ...

W. W. Norton & Company, 1984

Nuclear Winter
This book is about nuclear winter, and what scientists have determined it will probably be like. Before I say anything else, let me state as clearly as possible that I am not an expert in this topic. Sometimes it isn't always clear, reading Amazon.com reviews, whether the writer is an expert or just someone who read the book. I am in the second of those categories. Let me quickly mention that ...

Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record

4 reviews
Carl Sagan

Ballantine Books, 1978

Through the darkness...
With recently announced initiatives directing us to space exploration once again, and with probes currently investigating the Martian surface, it is worthwhile to look back at a piece of history in the first great era of planetary exploration, whose heyday is arguably the journeys of Voyager I and Voyager II, the last great interplanetary probes to make a grand tour of several (in fact, most) of ...

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Carl Sagan

Ballantine Books, 1978

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