Энн Друян — новинки

Автором сценария сериала и этой книги выступила Энн Друян, соавтор и верная спутница Карла Сагана. С присущим ей талантом просто рассказывать о сложных вещах, при помощи впечатляющих иллюстраций она напоминает о знаковых открытиях в истории человечества, о космическихмиссиях, забытых героях со всего света. Попробуем же по-новому осознать себя в космосе и на этой планете — бледной голубой точке на бескрайнем темном просторе.

Это продолжение классической саги Карла Сагана и следующий отрезок путешествия сквозь пространство и время — к мирам, отстоящим от нас на многие миллиарды километров, к науке будущего. И книга, и новый сезон научно-популярного сериала, на котором она основана, утверждают, что наука и цивилизация всегда шли рука об руку. Энн Друян, соавтор и верная спутница Карла Сагана, собрала по крупицам доказательства тому: и на дне океана, где зародилась жизнь, и в космосе, который ныне исследуют наши космические станции, и в истории Вселенной, зародившейся в момент Большого взрыва, и среди самых причудливых форм жизни, которые когда-либо населяли…

In 1977, two extraordinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copped phonograph record as a message to possible extra-terrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft in some distant space and time. Each record contained 118 photographs of our planet; almost 90 minutes of the world's greatest music; an evolutionary audio essay on "The Sounds of Earth"; and greetings in almost sixty human languages (and one whale language). This book is an account, written by those chiefly responsible for the contents of the Voyager Record, of why they did it, how they selected the repertoire, and precisely what the record contains.

Introductory music from the original score for COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey composed by Alan Silvestri, used with permission from Cosmos Studios, Inc. and Chappers Music. All rights reserved. Special thanks to Fuzzy Planets, Inc.

World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a Roots for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits--self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics--are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals. Astonishing in its scope, brilliant in its insights, and an absolutely compelling read, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a triumph of popular science. Introductory music from the…

In 1977, two extraodinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copper phonograph record as a message to possible extra-terrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft in some distant space and time. Each record contained 118 photographs of our planet; almost 90 minutes of the world's greatest music; an evolutionary audio essay on "The Sounds of Earth"; and greetings in almost sixty human languages (and one whale language). This book is an account, written by those chiefly responsible for the contents of the Voyager Record, of why they did it, how they selected the repertoire, and precisely what the record contains.

Cosmos, the widely acclaimed book and television series by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, was about where we are in the vastness of space and time. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is an exploration of who we are. How were we shaped by life's adventure on this planet, by a mysterious past that we are only just beginning to piece together? "We humans are like a newborn baby left on a doorstep, " they write, "with no note explaining who it is, where it came from, what hereditary cargo of attributes and disabilities it might be carrying, or who its antecedents might be." This book is one version of the orphan's file. Sagan and Druyan take us back to…