| Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science Contributor(s): Sagan, Carl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0345336895 ISBN-13: 9780345336897 Publisher: Ballantine Books OUR PRICE: $9.49 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: February 1986 Annotation: Carl 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects - Science | Cosmology - Science | Reference |
| Dewey: 128.2 |
| LCCN: 78021810 |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 4.34" W x 7.08" (0.45 lbs) 398 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A fascinating book on the joys of discovering how the world works, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cosmos and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. "Magnificent . . . Delightful . . . A masterpiece. A message of tremendous hope for humanity . . . While ever conscious that human folly can terminate man's march into the future, Sagan nonetheless paints for us a mind-boggling future: intelligent robots, the discovery of extraterrestrial life and its consequences, and above all the challenge and pursuit of the mystery of the universe."--Chicago Tribune "Go out and buy this book, because Carl Sagan is not only one of the world's most respected scientists, he's a great writer. . . . I can give a book no greater accolade than to say I'm planning on reading it again. And again. And again."--The Miami Herald "The brilliant astronomer . . . is persuasive, provocative and readable."--United Press International "Closely reasoned, impeccably researched, gently humorous, utterly devastating."--The Washington Post |