Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of ScienceCarl 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. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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Can We Know the Universe? Reflections on a Grain of Salt | 13 |
That World Which Beckons Like a Liberation | 19 |
The Suns Family | 149 |
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