Cosmos
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345539434 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0345539435 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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xxix, 396 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 21 cm. - Edition: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks, 2013.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine, 2013
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: New York : Random House, c1980. "The classic bestseller. With a new foreword by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Introduction by Ann Druyan." -- Cover. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-383) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The shores of the cosmic ocean -- One voice in the cosmic feud -- The harmony of worlds -- Heaven and hell -- Blues for a red planet -- Travelers' tales -- The backbone of the night -- Travels in space and time -- The lives of the stars -- The edge of forever --The persistence of memory -- Encyclopedia Galactica -- Who speaks for Earth? |
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Subject: | Astronomy Popular works |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | QB 44.2 .S243 2013 | 30775305472434 | General Collection | Available | - |
Author Notes
Cosmos
A respected planetary scientist best known outside the field for his popularizations of astronomy, Carl Sagan was born in New York City on November 9, 1934. He attended the University of Chicago, where he received a B.A. in 1954, a B.S. in 1955, and a M.S. in 1956 in physics as well as a Ph.D. in 1960 in astronomy and astrophysics. He has several early scholarly achievements including the experimental demonstration of the synthesis of the energy-carrying molecule ATP (adenosine triphosphate) in primitive-earth experiments. Another was the proposal that the greenhouse effect explained the high temperature of the surface of Venus. He was also one of the driving forces behind the mission of the U.S. satellite Viking to the surface of Mars. He was part of a team that investigated the effects of nuclear war on the earth's climate - the "nuclear winter" scenario. Sagan's role in developing the "Cosmos" series, one of the most successful series of any kind to be broadcast on the Public Broadcasting System, and his book The Dragons of Eden (1977) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. He also wrote the novel Contact, which was made into a movie starring Jodie Foster. He died from pneumonia on December 20, 1996. (Bowker Author Biography)