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Title: Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan ISBN: 0-345-34629-7 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 December, 1986 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (46 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Thought Provoking But not his best
Comment: I absoloutely love Carl Sagan's works and he was a brilliant man. I especially liked a Demon Haunted World, and Contact, and in flipping through Cosmos that looks very interesting too. This book is thought provoking, but is very technical because of the topic presented. It's not for everyone. But considering the complexity of human intelligence, it is pretty graspable. The critisism for this book would have to be that it is over 25 years old and dated and that he was much younger and i believe that as he got older his writing style changed and grew and his writing became less technical and easier to grasp but still intelligently written. Its amazing to read this book right after one of his later books and see the difference. He was a brilliant man.
Rating: 4
Summary: includes endnote coverage of the cannabis smoker's mind...
Comment: Now I definitely need to read more of Carl Sagan's books. This one is not very recent (he speaks of a new video game called "Pong"), but full of thought-provoking and interesting concepts concerning intelligence and evolution. I was pleasantly surprised to see that he had a chapter pertaining to dreamstates. ("Tales of Dim Eden") Also pertaining to Eden, he illustrates how the Genesis story of Man and his Fall can in some senses really be accurate, not (pseudo)scientifically (as in Creationism...obviously it is a book on evolution and phylogeny) but as a metaphor for several characteristics of the human races emerging onto the present scene of a civilisation stemmed from the frontal lobes. Which in the big picture has been very recent, to show this he condenses the life of the cosmos to a scale Cosmic Calendar of 365 days. Us Earthlings almost miss the New Year's party. Neurologically, the areas of the brain are explored and their respective functions as well as connections to mammallian and reptilian ancestors. (A triune model is used) Finally, he briefly touches on our search for extraterrestrial intelligence and, very appropriately to this setting, exposes the West's lack of appreciation for scientific knowledge the world which we inhabit and our irrational attraction to superstition and bogus claims of occult psuedo-science... something I just had to include somewhere in here.
Rating: 5
Summary: The "OH SO FABULOUS" Book
Comment: Oh my gosh. everyone should TOTALLY read this book. it will give you informative info on all your life questions. i read this book in less than 24 hours and SO CAN YOU! wanna know about dinosaurs and cool aliens? well then DEFINITELY read this book. instead of going to the beach, i stayed in and read this truly intriguing book. oh wow. im such a good student! YOU can be just like me if you read this Carl Sagan dragon junk book. At first you might be discouraged because its REALLY BORING, but if you're into all that space stuff then you'll really like it. my friend OLGA recommended it to me and we just love sharing our thoughts over a nice hot cup of coffee, while checking out the other book worms. anyways be RAD like me and read some carl sagan today!
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Title: Demon-Haunted World by Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan ISBN: 0345409469 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 25 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan ISBN: 0345336895 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan ISBN: 0345384725 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 07 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Cosmos by Carl Sagan ISBN: 0345331354 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 October, 1985 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan ISBN: 0345376595 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 08 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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