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<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>List of Illustrations</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>xi</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>PART I  THE POWER AND BEAUTY OF QUANTIFICATION</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>3</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(60)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>1.  Billions and Billions</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>3</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(8)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>2.  The Persian Chessboard</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>11</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(11)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>3.  Monday-Night Hunters</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>22</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(9)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>4.  The Gaze of God and the Dripping Faucet</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>31</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>5.  Four Cosmic Questions</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>45</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(8)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>6.  So Many Suns, So Many Worlds</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>53</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(10)</TD></TR><TR><TD>PART II  WHAT ARE CONSERVATIVES CONSERVING?</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>63</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(86)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>7.  The World That Came in the Mail</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>63</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>8.  The Environment: Where Does Prudence Lie?</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>69</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(8)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>9.  Croesus and Cassandra</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>77</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>10.  A Piece of the Sky Is Missing</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>83</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(15)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>11.  Ambush: The Warming of the World</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>98</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(19)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>12.  Escape from Ambush</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>117</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(19)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>13.  Religion and Science: An Alliance</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>136</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(13)</TD></TR><TR><TD>PART III  WHERE HEARTS AND MINDS COLLIDE</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>149</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(74)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>14.  The Common Enemy</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>149</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>15.  Abortion: Is It Possible to Be Both "Pro-Life" and "Pro-Choice"? (cowritten with Ann Druyan)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>163</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(17)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>16.  The Rules of the Game</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>180</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(12)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>17.  Gettysburg and Now (cowritten with Ann Druyan)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>192</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(12)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>18.  The Twentieth Century</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>204</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(10)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>19.  In the Valley of the Shadow</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>214</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(9)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Epilogue</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>223</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>Ann Druyan</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD>Acknowledgments</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>229</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(2)</TD></TR><TR><TD>References</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>231</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Index</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>235</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>

In this book, his last, Carl Sagan shows once again his extraordinary ability to interpret the mysteries of life and the majesty of the universe for the general reader. In Billions and Billions Sagan applies what we know about science, mathematics, and space to everyday life as well as to the exploration of many essential questions concerning the environment and our future. Ranging far and wide in subject matter, he takes his readers on a soaring journey, from the

Billions and billions : thoughts on life and death at the brink of the millennium