Authors: Glyn Morgan

Description: Sommes-nous seuls dans l’univers ? L’humanité sera-t-elle remplacée par des machines intelligentes ? Saurons-nous livrer un monde vivable à nos descendants ? Inspirée par la science et vice-versa, la science-fiction donne vie à nos angoisses et tente de dessiner les contours d’un futur incertain. S'appuyant sur un large éventail d'exemples - nouvelles, romans, films, programmes télévisés, jeux vidéo, romans graphiques, œuvres d'art- de la culture populaire, ce livre magnifiquement illustré aborde cinq thématiques du genre : les robots, les voyages spatiaux, les aliens, les mondes éloignés et l'avenir de la Terre, menacé par l'arme nucléaire ou la crise climatique. A travers les œuvres marquantes qui ont fait l’histoire de la science-fiction, il nous révèle les liens étroits entre la réalité scientifique et les spéculations de créateurs visionnaires. "Le livre que vous tenez entre les mains n’est pas qu’un voyage dans les mondes chatoyants de la science-fiction. C’est aussi une aventure scientifique, une épopée humaine dans l’espace et le temps, et un cheminement intérieur jusqu’aux racines de nos imaginaires, portée par des récits qui, selon l’auteur américain Isaac Asimov « [...] se soucient des réponses de l’être humain aux progrès de la science et de la technologie. »" Roland Lehoucq, Astrophysicien, Extrait de la préface

Langue: fr

Publisher: Dunod

Categories: Art

Authors: Keay Davidson

Description: A penetrating, mesmerizing biography of a scientific icon "Absolutely fascinating . . . Davidson has done a remarkable job."-Sir Arthur C. Clarke "Engaging . . . accessible, carefully documented . . . sophisticated."-Dr. David Hollinger for The New York Times Book Review "Entertaining . . . Davidson treats [the] nuances of Sagan's complex life with understanding and sympathy."-The Christian Science Monitor "Excellent . . . Davidson acts as a keen critic to Sagan's works and their vast uncertainties."-Scientific American "A fascinating book about an extraordinary man."-Johnny Carson "Davidson, an award-winning science writer, has written an absorbing portrait of this Pied Piper of planetary science. Davidson thoroughly explores Sagan's science, wrestles with his politics, and plumbs his personal passions with a telling instinct for the revealing underside of a life lived so publicly."-Los Angeles Times Carl Sagan was one of the most celebrated scientists of this century—the handsome and alluring visionary who inspired a generation to look to the heavens and beyond. His life was both an intellectual feast and an emotional rollercoaster. Based on interviews with Sagan's family and friends, including his widow, Ann Druyan; his first wife, acclaimed scientist Lynn Margulis; and his three sons, as well as exclusive access to many personal papers, this highly acclaimed life story offers remarkable insight into one of the most influential, provocative, and beloved figures of our time—a complex, contradictory prophet of the Space Age.

Langue: en

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Authors: Gabrielle Borisovna

Description: Equal parts scientist and public personality, Carl Sagan was one of the most well-known figures of the 20th century. As an adviser to NASA, he helped plan the first moon landing. As an activist, he warned of the dangers of nuclear war. And through his writings and television show, Sagan nurtured the scientific curiosity of audiences around the world, encouraging even the non-scientifically inclined to understand the possibilities that lay in the cosmos and beyond. The remarkable life of the multi-talented Sagan is chronicled within these pages, which survey his personal and professional challenges and his greatest successes.

Langue: en

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction

Authors: Marcel Chotkowski

Description: As television emerged as a major cultural and economic force, many imagined that the medium would enhance civic education for topics like science. And, indeed, television soon offered a breathtaking banquet of scientific images and ideas—both factual and fictional. Mr. Wizard performed experiments with milk bottles. Viewers watched live coverage of solar eclipses and atomic bomb blasts. Television cameras followed astronauts to the moon, Carl Sagan through the Cosmos, and Jane Goodall into the jungle. Via electrons and embryos, blood testing and blasting caps, fictional Frankensteins and chatty Nobel laureates, television opened windows onto the world of science. But what promised to be a wonderful way of presenting science to huge audiences turned out to be a disappointment, argues historian Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette in Science on American Television. LaFollette narrates the history of science on television, from the 1940s to the turn of the twenty-first century, to demonstrate how disagreements between scientists and television executives inhibited the medium's potential to engage in meaningful science education. In addition to examining the content of shows, she also explores audience and advertiser responses, the role of news in engaging the public in science, and the making of scientific celebrities. Lively and provocative, Science on American Television establishes a new approach to grappling with the popularization of science in the television age, when the medium's ubiquity and influence shaped how science was presented and the scientific community had increasingly less control over what appeared on the air.

Langue: en

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Categories: History

Authors: Musée national d'art moderne (France)

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Langue: fr

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Categories: Art, Modern

Authors: Émile P. Torres

Description: This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existential risks." Many leading intellectuals agree that the risk of human extinction this century may be higher than at any point in our 300,000-year history as a species. This book provides insight on the key questions that inform this discussion, including when humans began to worry about their own extinction and how the debate has changed over time. It establishes a new theoretical foundation for thinking about the ethics of our extinction, arguing that extinction would be very bad under most circumstances, although the outcome might be, on balance, good. Throughout the book, graphs, tables, and images further illustrate how human choices and attitudes about extinction have evolved in Western history. In its thorough examination of humanity’s past, this book also provides a starting point for understanding our future. Although accessible enough to be read by undergraduates, Human Extinction contains new and thought-provoking research that will benefit even established academic philosophers and historians.

Langue: en

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Categories: History

Authors: Carl Abbott

Description: "Abbott offers a fruitful new way to read science fiction, one that also greatly enriches our understanding of western history and its impact on our collective imagination. Detailing the overlap of science fiction and western fiction - especially relating to their mutual interest in and concerns about frontier expansionism - he reveals an unsuspected common ground that informs the writings of both camps." "Reviewing the work of many Hugo and Nebula Award winners, as well as drawing upon popular film and television series (like the Buck Rogers serials), Abbott's study journeys across the far reaches of science fiction's universe."

Langue: en

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Categories: Fiction

Authors: Geoff Hamilton ,Brian Jones

Description: Covers contemporary authors and works that have enjoyed commercial success in the United States but are typically neglected by more "literary" guides. Provides high school and college students with everything they need to know to understand the authors and works of American popular fiction.

Langue: en

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Categories: Fiction

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Langue: en

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Categories: Canada

Authors: Allen Tough

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Langue: en

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Categories: Reference

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Langue: en

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Categories: American literature

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Langue: en

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Categories: Religion and science

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Langue: en

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Categories: United States

Authors: Ray Broadus Browne ,Glenn J. Browne ,Kevin O. Browne

Description: Brief profiles of more than 100 contemporary men and women from all walks of life whose activities reflect heroic traits.

Langue: en

Publisher: Gale Cengage

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Authors: Bob Huxford

Description: Nearly 25,000 titles with current values fill this hardbound book. Much more than just a typical price guide, the book is a directory with scores of actual buyers listed by the subject matter they are searching for, as well as dealers offering the books at listed prices. It will put you in touch with a person interested in buying or selling the books you have piled on your bookshelves

Langue: en

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Categories: Antiques & Collectibles

Authors: British Library

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Langue: en

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Categories: English imprints

Authors: Electre

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Langue: fr

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Authors: Bob Huxford ,Sharon Huxford

Description: 25,000 listings of old books with current values.

Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: Antiques & Collectibles

Authors: Kenneth L. Golden

Description: This study takes a fresh approach to the genre of science fiction - comparative mythology and Jungian psychology, as a contrast to many books in the field which are concerned with a scientific or Freudian perspective. It will be useful not only to scholars in the field of literary studies, but to those using interdisciplinary approaches.

Langue: en

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Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Pamela Gossin

Description: "This reference defines the rapidly emerging interdisciplinary field of literature and science. An introductory essay traces the history of the field, its growing reputation, and the current state of research. Broad in scope, the volume covers world literature from its beginnings to the present and illuminates the role of science in literature and literary studies. Included are more than 650 alphabetically arranged entries on topics, themes, writers, scientists, works, theories and methodologies. A wide range of experts contributed entries, each ending with a brief bibliography. The entire volume closes with a list of works for further reading."--BOOK JACKET.

Langue: en

Publisher: Greenwood

Categories: Literary Criticism