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Year: 1973, 1975
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Edition: 1st Dell printing of the 1st edition
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Pages: xiii + 274, ill.
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Pages In File: 292
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Language: English
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Topic: 181
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Identifier: 0440133017, 9780440133018
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Toc: Preface
Part One: COSMIC PERSPECTIVES
1. A Transitional Animal
2. The Unicorn of Cetus
3. A Message from Earth
4. A Message to Earth
5. Experiments in Utopias
6. Chauvinism
7. Space Exploration as a Human Enterprise I. The Scientific Interest
8. Space Exploration as a Human Enterprise II. The Public Interest
9. Space Exploration as a Human Enterprise III. The Historical Interest
Part Two: THE SOLAR SYSTEM
10. On Teaching the First Grade
11. “The Ancient and Legendary Gods of Old”
12. The Venus Detective Story
13. Venus Is Hell
14. Science and “Intelligence”
15. The Moons of Barsoom
16. The Mountains of Mars I. Observations From Earth
17. The Mountains of Mars II. Observations From Space
18. The Canals of Mars
19. The Lost Pictures of Mars
20. The Ice Age and the Cauldron
21. Beginnings and Ends of the Earth
22. Terraforming the Planets
23. The Exploration and Utilization of the Solar System
Part Three: BEYOND THE SOLAR SYSTEM
24. Some of My Best Friends Are Dolphins
25. “Hello, Central Casting? Send Me Twenty Extraterrestrials”
26. The Cosmic Connection
27. Extraterrestrial Life: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
28. Has the Earth Been Visited?
29. A Search Strategy for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligence
30. If We Succeed
31. Cables, Drums, and Seashells
32. The Night Freight to the Star