Cosmos by Carl Sagan

This visually dazzling book with over 250 full-color outlines, numerous of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan’s thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan’s surprising capacity to create logical thoughts both comprehensible and energizing, Cosmos is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization developed up together. The book also investigates shuttle missions of discovery of the nearby planets, the research within the Library of ancient Alexandria, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, the beginning of life, the death of the Sun, the advancement of universes, and the origins of matter, suns, and universes.