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  title info:
    title: Carl Sagan
    sub title: a life
  name:
    name part: Davidson, Keay
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας.
  name:
    name part: Sagan, Carl
    name part: 1934-1996
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York, N.Y
    publisher: J. Wiley
    date issued: c1999
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 ηλεκτρονική πηγή (xx, 540 σ.)
  abstract: "Carl Sagan was one of the most celebrated scientists of his time - the leading visionary of the Space Age. He was also a highly controversial figure who inspired wildly opposed opinions. His enthusiasm and eloquence about the wonders of space, the marvels of the human brain, and the mysteries of life captured the imagination of millions. Yet one scientist was so enraged by Sagan's scientific pronouncements that he compared him to the Black Plague, and William F. Buckley, Jr. likened him to circus huckster P.T. Barnum." "Sagan's life was both an intellectual feast and an emotional roller coaster. Whether he was searching for life on Mars or visiting Timothy Leary in prison, prophesying exciting scientific discoveries or getting arrested for protesting nuclear weapons, debating the existence of UFOs or advocating the creative benefits of smoking marijuana, Carl Sagan was a fascinating, charismatic, and complex man full of contradictions." "His TV series Cosmos awed hundreds of millions around the world, and his bestseller The Dragons of Eden won the Pulitzer Prize. Yet the value of his scientific work was often called into question. His Ph. D. dissertation narrowly escaped rejection, he was denied tenure at Harvard, and in the twilight of his life, he was denied membership in the prestigious National Academy of Sciences." "In this insightful and evenhanded biography, science journalist Keay Davidson reveals for the first time the man behind the famous image - the storm of contradictions and passions that animated this enigmatic and entrancing man who remained, at heart, the five-year-old Brooklyn boy who looked up at the stars and asked: What are they?"--Jacket.
  table of contents: Brooklyn -- Chicago -- The Dungeon -- High Ground -- California -- Harvard -- Mars and Manna -- Mr. X -- Gods Like Men -- The Shadow Line -- The Dragons of Eden -- Annie -- Cosmos -- Contact -- The Value of L -- Look Back, Look Back -- Hollywood -- The Night Freight.
  note: Keay Davidson.
  note: Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
  note: Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-519) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sagan, Carl
      name part: 1934-1996
  subject:
    topic: Αστρονόμοι
    geographic: Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής
    genre: Βιογραφία
  classification: 520/.92 B
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    title info:
      title: Carl Sagan
    name:
      name part: Davidson, Keay.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, N.Y. : J. Wiley, �1999
    identifier: (DLC) 99036206
    identifier: (OCoLC)41580617
  identifier: 0585272069
  identifier: 9780585272061
  identifier: 0471252867
  identifier: 9780471252863
  identifier: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx
  access condition: Use copy MiAaHDL
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 001009
    record change date: 20191114105329.0
    record identifier: ocm45732481
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng