Broca's Brain
Reflections on the Romance of Science
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Narrated by:
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Dion Graham
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Written by:
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Carl Sagan
About this listen
Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consequences, and other provocative, fascinating quandaries of the future that we want to see today.
©1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 Carl Sagan (P)2017 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Cornell University Press: "An Analysis of 'Worlds in Collision'" by Carl Sagan, in Scientists Confront Velikovsky, edited by D. Goldsmith. © 1976 by Cornell University Press. Encyclopedia Americana: "UFO's." © 1975 by Americana Corporation. Field Enterprises: "The Climates of Planets" in Science Year 1975. © 1975 by Field Enterprises Educational Corporation. William Morrow & Company, Inc.: Excerpts from The Planets by Diane Ackerman. © 1975, 1976 by Diane Ackerman. Reprinted by permission of William Morrow & Company, Inc.You may also enjoy...
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- Narrated by: Michael York
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Interesting overview
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Written by: Stephen Hawking
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- Written by: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 761
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 659
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 657
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LeVar is like listening to a breathy James T. Kirk
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- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Ann Druyan
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
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Written by: Carl Sagan
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Pale Blue Dot
- A Vision of the Human Future in Space
- Written by: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 136
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 136
In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read by Ann Druyan featuring Carl Sagan
- By Brian on 2018-08-27
Written by: Carl Sagan
-
Contact
- Written by: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 139
The future is here...in an adventure of cosmic dimension. In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who - or what - is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future - and our own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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dubbed corrections distracting
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-04-25
Written by: Carl Sagan
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
- Written by: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- Narrated by: Nick Sagan, Ann Druyan, Clinnette Minnis
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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.
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What the critics say
“Magnificent.... Delightful.... A masterpiece. A message of tremendous hope for humanity.... While ever conscious that human folly can terminate man’s march into the future, Sagan nonetheless paints for us a mind-boggling future: intelligent robots, the discovery of extraterrestrial life and its consequences, and above all the challenge and pursuit of the mystery of the universe.” (Chicago Tribune)
“Go out and buy this book, because Carl Sagan is not only one of the world’s most respected scientists, he’s a great writer.... I can give a book no greater accolade than to say I’m planning on reading it again. And again. And again.” (The Miami Herald)
“Closely reasoned, impeccably researched, gently humorous, utterly devastating.” (The Washington Post)
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- T Woodward
- 2022-08-16
loved the book and it's narration!!!
Carl Sagan's explanation of how he sees the passage of time on this Earth is incredible. His interruption on past beliefs of others is enlightening too.
Dion Graham's narration, with all his emotional backing, is utterly superb!!! You can feel all of what we'd expect if Carl Sagan had narrated it himself!!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Arcdelax
- 2021-09-03
Great performance
Great performance, almost had me believing I was listening to carl sagan himself, with the narrator's enthusiasm.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-02-28
Good
titles and I will be a good day at work and I will be a good day at work
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- D. Urquhart
- 2022-03-23
Excellent but a little dated
Love Carl Sagan, but I can’t help but drop a couple of stars as the content becomes a little dated and therefore somewhat less interesting to read 40+ years later.
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