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Table of Contents:

• The most precious thing
• Science and hope
• The man in the moon and the face on mars
• Aliens
• Spoofing and secrecy
• Hallucinations
• The demon-haunted world
• On the distinction between true and false visions
• Therapy
• The dragon in my garage
• The city of grief
• The fine art of baloney detection
• Obsessed with reality
• Antiscience
• Newton's sleep
• When scientists know sin
• The marriage of skepticism and wonder
• The wind makes dust
• No such things as a dumb question
• House on fire

• The path to freedom
• Significance junkies
• Maxwell and the nerds
• Science and witchcraft
• Real patriots ask questions
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Index.

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Author/Creator:

Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark [by Sagan, C.]

Subjects:

Science — Methodology — Popular works

Science — Study and teaching — Popular works

Literacy — Popular works

Science and civilization — Popular works

Science — Methodology

Science

Science — Study and teaching

Literacy

Science and civilization

Genres:

Popular works

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-448) and index.

Physical Description:

xviii, 457 pages ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

Q175 .S215 1996

ISBNs:

039453512X

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

95034076

OCLC Numbers:

939553699
32855551 [Invalid]