Works by Carl Sagan (Study Guide): Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Pale Blue Dot, Contact, the Demon-Haunted World, the Dragons of Eden

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Cosmos: a Personal Voyage, Pale Blue Dot, Contact, the Demon-Haunted World, the Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain, Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Cosmic Connection: an Extraterrestrial Perspective, Comet. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers and David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. It covered a wide range of scientific subjects including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe. The series was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980, and was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television until The Civil War (1990). As of 2009, it is still the most widely watched PBS series in the world. It won an Emmy and a Peabody Award and has since been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by over 500 million people. A book to accompany the series was also published. Cosmos was produced in 1978 and 1979 by Los Angeles PBS affiliate KCET on a roughly $6.3 million budget, with over $2 million additionally allocated to promotion. The show's format is based on previous BBC documentaries such as Kenneth Clark's Civilisation, Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man and David Attenborough's Life on Earth. (The BBCa co-producer of Cosmosrepaid the compliment by screening the series, but episodes were cut to fit 50-minute slots.) However, unlike those series, which were shot entirely on f...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=14642