This visually stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan’s thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan’s remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting,Cosmosis about science in its...

Based on a six-week course given by the author at Vassar for non- science students. Chapters begin with an overview of concepts and end with a summary and self-tests. A great little book, and if every physics textbook were like this, physics classrooms would be crowded. Annotation copyrighted by...