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Contributors
Preface
Carl Sagan at Sixty
PART 1. PLANETARY EXPLORATION
1. On the Occasion of Carl Sagan's
Sixtieth Birthday, Wesley T. Huntress, Jr.
2. The Search for the Origins of Life: U.S. Solar System Exploration, 1962-1994,
Edward C. Stone
3. Highlights of the Russian Planetary Program, Roald Sagdeev
4. From the Eyepiece to the Footpad: The
Search for Life on Mars, Bruce Murray
PART 2. LIFE IN THE COSMOS
5. Environments of Earth and Other Worlds,
Owen B. Toon
6. The Origin of Life in a Cosmic Context, Christopher F. Chyba
7. Impacts and Life: Living in a Risky
Planetary System, David Morrison
8. Extraterrestrial Intelligence: The Significance of the Search, Frank D. Drake
9. Extraterrestrial Intelligence: The Search Programs, Paul Horowitz
10. Do the Laws of Physics Permit Wormholes for
Interstellar Travel and Machines for Time Travel?, Kip S. Thorne
PUBLIC ADDRESS: 11. The Age of Exploration, Carl Sagan
PART 3. -SCIENCE EDUCATION
12. Does Science Need to be Popularized?, Ann Druyan
13. Science and Pseudo-Science, James Randi
14. Science Education in a Democracy, Philip Morrison
15. The Visual Presentation of
Science, Jon Lomberg
16. Science and the Press, Walter Anderson
17. Science and Teaching, Bill G. Aldridge
PART 4. SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENT, AND PUBLIC POLICY
18. The Relationship of Science and Power, Richard L. Garwin
19. Nuclear-Free World?, Georgi Arbatov
20. Carl Sagan and Nuclear Winter, Richard P. Turco
21. Public Understanding
of Global Climate Change, James Hansen
22. Science and Religion, Joan B. Campbell
23. Speech in Honor of Carl Sagan,
Frank Press.
7 x 10 - 304 pp. - 20 color plates, 70 halftones, 16 line diagrams
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