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| Named Person: | Carl Sagan; Carl Sagan |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lynn Margulis; Dorion Sagan |
| ISBN: | 9781933392318 1933392312 |
| OCLC Number: | 137244747 |
| Notes: | "A Sciencewriters book." |
| Description: | xiii, 259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / Roald Hoffmann -- Acknowledgments -- pt. 1. Mnemosyne -- 1. Red shoe conundrum / Lynn Margulis -- 2. Truth of my father / Dorion Sagan -- 3. The uncut self / Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis -- pt. 2. Chimera -- 4. Power to the protoctists / Lynn Margulis -- 5. Prejudice and bacterial consciousness / Lynn Margulis -- 6. All for one / Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan -- 7. Speculation on speculation / Lynn Margulis -- 8. Spirochetes awake : syphilis and Nietzsche's mad genius / Lynn Margulis -- 9. From Kefir to death / Lynn Margulis -- 10. Welcome to the machine / Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis -- 11. The transhumans are coming / Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis -- 12. Alien enlightenment : Michael Persinger and the neuropsychology of God / Dorion Sagan. pt. 2. Eros -- 13. The riddle of sex / Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis -- 14. An evolutionary striptease / Dorion Sagan -- 15. Vive la différence / Dorion Sagan -- 16. Candidiasis and the origin of clowns / Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis -- pt. 4. Gaea -- 17. The atmosphere, Gaia's circulatory system / Lynn Margulis and James E. Lovelock -- 18. Gaia and philosophy / Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis -- 19. The global sulfur cycle and Emiliania huxleyi / Dorion Sagan -- 20. Descartes, dualism, and beyond / Dorion Sagan Lynn Margulis and Ricardo Guerrero -- 21. What Narcissus saw : the oceanic "eye" / Dorion Sagan -- 22. The pleasures of change / Dorion Sagan and Eric D. Schneider -- Readings -- Figure and table list -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan. |
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Enlightening, argumentative, and passionate reflections from a lifetime of debate about science, sex, and society. A fine personal summing up by mother and sonotwo of the finest creative thinkers and writers in the literature.--Greg Bear This is a ripsnorting intellectual barnstorm of a book, a sort of chimeric hybrid of mental genes from Dorion Sagan, his genius mother Lynn Margulis, and his dead father Carl Sagan--surely one of the smartest families on the planet. The result is a remarkably coherent and blazingly original proposal for the next grand narrative of our civilization (now that we have pretty much burned out the Cartesian one). --Frederick Turner, author of Natural Classicism and The Culture of Hope Brilliant and fascinating, Dazzle Gradually unrolls for us the scroll of life on earth. These essays show us the intricate complexities of microbes; an atmosphere that performs self-maintenance; our own minds. Margulis and Sagan do not blink at the big questions or hard answers, and their writing is lively, precise, entertaining, and provocative, their passion for science everywhere evident and persuasive. Anyone who has ever wondered where we came from, who we are, and where we may be headed will delight in this extraordinarily exciting book. --Kelly Cherry, author of Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems In Dazzle Gradually we have one of the great iconoclastic biologists of our time and her son, both excellent writers, firing ideas at us, reflecting, asking questions, making connections. eTruthis superb surprisei is their gift to us n Roald Hoffman Read more...
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- Science -- Philosophy.
- Evolution (Biology)
- Microorganisms -- Evolution.
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- Sagan, Carl, -- 1934-1996.
- Philosophy.
- Science.
- Biological Evolution.
- Microbiology.
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