I can't say this is a drastic improvement over the DVD, and I'd have a hard time recommending it to someone that already owns the DVD.

Amazon mistakenly thinks that the author of the new edition is Neil deGrasse Tyson (he only wrote a foreword for the new edition).

The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work.

It doesn't have all the answers to your questions, what it has is - logical reasoning, analysis of data available from 13.8 billion years, deductions, and inferences. Bought this as a gift for a twelve-year-old girl who had just finished reading the school copy and LOVED it. The accompanying book, also called Cosmos, is one of the bestselling science books ever published in the English language. No doubt, many scientists today can thank Sagan for the initial spark that ignited their careers.

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (Unabridged) Carl Sagan. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2017.

I was a Marine sergeant at the time and forced my young charges to watch the PBS series once a week on the barrack's TV. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 December 2017. such refrshing sanity, eloquence, and intelligence, Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2017. Just a note, if you do not have external 5.1 surround sound speakers connected to your HDTV be sure to change the settings in your blu ray player to output in LCPM stereo.

y stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan’s thirteen-part television series. Buy a secondhand original hardback edition: it’s a larger size, an easier read and supported by over 250 full colour images. From the Big Bang to the formation of the stars and the Earth, through the painstaking evolutionary process that resulted in human beings, to millenia beyond our time where interstellar travel may be a viable means of commute. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. I love non-fiction but Carl Sagan takes it a step further - it almost feels like reading a poem at times. Available on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. This book is a delight to read, and it succeeds in making science lively and engaging. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 July 2016, This is an epic tale - exploring, understanding and describing the Universe in its entirety. Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The same issue exists with Kenneth Clark’s book based on his Civilisation TV show.

This book is a delight to read, and it succeeds in making science lively and engaging. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books.

This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. The book has been awarded with Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book (1981), National Book Award Finalist for Science (Hardcover) (1981) and many others.

Featuring a new Introduction by Sagan’s collaborator, Ann Druyan, and a new Foreword by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, spacecraft missions, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies, and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science. Publisher: Ballantine Books. The book was first published in 1983, as a tie-in to the TV documentary series.

This book is a delight to read, and it succeeds in making science lively and engaging. Carl Sagan was Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University.

A brilliant author.

This is a dense book for facts and information, but it's laid out so that you don't need to be an astrophysics wonk in order to enjoy it. Read a 15 min summary of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan, available in Book and Audiobook format. From the days we were wandering the planet looking little different from our primate cousins, to these modern times where we take for granted technologies that would have been equated to magic just a century or so ago, we humans have made amazing progress. He helped solve the mysteries of the high temperatures of Venus (answer: massive greenhouse effect), the seasonal changes on Mars (answer: windblown dust), and the reddish haze of Titan (answer: complex organic molecules). In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. The book was first published in 1983, as a tie-in to the TV documentary series Carl Sagan's Cosmos [DVD] [1980].

This is life enhancing television at its best.

It has a set of color pictures and the paper quality is good. It's a shame because this ground-breaking PBS series could have been restored to the same video quality of the 1970 British series "UFO", not a great TV show, but one which was extraordinarily well remastered. Because EVERYONE loves Carl Sagan! After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Again, what CAN you say about this classic? Prime members enjoy unlimited free, fast delivery on eligible items, video streaming, ad-free music, exclusive access to deals & more. In 13 chapters, Dr Sagan gives us a glimpse into all scales of space and time. I would rather study this entire book for an exam rather than those school books. The same issue exists with Kenneth Clark’s book based on his Civilisation TV show.

It isn't and that's a pity.

which we saw about every time it aired and then when we found out there was a book we rushed to our local library to see if they had it and checked it out and renewed it numerous times! Carl Sagan's ambitious 13-part series on the universe and our place in it, "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage," was the first, highly successful TV popularization of the science of astrophysics. Only disappointing thing is it doesnot have any pictures, if you are expecting color pictures dont go for abacus publication. Includes introductory music: Heaven and Hell by Vangelis from Cosmos: A Personal Voyage used with permission from Druyan-Sagan Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.

Carl Sagan's ambitious 13-part series on the universe and our place in it, "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage," was the first, highly successful TV popularization of the science of astrophysics. As a bonus many episodes are capped by an on screen commentary by Sagan, as he explains the results of more research into the given subject matter. Turn off ADblock to view Download Links, Suggested PDF: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan pdf. I was young then. I'm really happy with this set!

I am very grateful for the author as well as all the people involved in making the series. Told with Sagan’s remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, Carl Sagan was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University; Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; and the cofounder and President of the Planetary Society, the largest space-interest group in the world. The translated version of this book is available in Spanish, English, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Portuguese, Indonesian / Malaysian, French, Japanese, German and many others for free download. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in.

If you've never read any Carl Sagan, this is a fine place to start. I first saw this series hosted by Carl Sagan in the early eighties while I was living in England. It may not be the kind of HD that you've become accustomed to, but the picture is cleaner, clearer, much of the grittiness is gone, and the sound vastly improved.

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