Kasner, Edward and Newman, James R. Mathematics and the Imagination. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.
Kaufmann, William J. Stars and Nebulas. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1978.
Maffei, Paolo. Monsters in the Sky. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1980.
Murdin, P. and Allen, D. Catalogue of the Universe. New York: Crown Publishers, 1979.
*Shklovskii, I.S. Stars: Their Birth, Life and Death. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1978.
Sullivan, Walter. Black Holes: The Edge of Space, The End of Time. New York: Doubleday, 1979.
Weisskopf, Victor. Knowledge and Wonder, second edition. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1979.
Excellent introductory college textbooks on astronomy include:
Abell, George. The Realm of the Universe. Philadelphia: Saunders College, 1980.
Berman, Louis and Evans, J.C. Exploring the Cosmos. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.
Hartmann, William K. Astronomy: The Cosmic Journey. Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth, 1978.
Jastrow, Robert and Thompson, Malcolm H. Astronomy: Fundamentals and Frontiers, third edition. New York: Wiley, 1977.
Pasachoff, Jay M. and Kutner, M.L. University Astronomy. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1978.
Zeilik, Michael. Astronomy: The Evolving Universe. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
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Abbott, E. Flatland. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1963.
*Arp, Halton. “Peculiar Galaxies and Radio Sources.” Science, Vol. 151, p. 1214, 1966.
Bok, Bart and Bok, Priscilla. The Milky Way, fourth edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.
Campbell, Joseph. The Mythic Image. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974.
Ferris, Timothy. Galaxies. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1980.
Ferris, Timothy. The Red Limit: The Search by Astronomers for the Edge of the Universe. New York: William Morrow, 1977.
Gingerich, Owen (ed.). Cosmology + l. A Scientific American Book. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1977.
*Jones, B. “The Origin of Galaxies: A Review of Recent Theoretical Developments and Their Confrontation with Observation.” Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 48, p. 107, 1976.
Kaufmann, William J. Black Holes and Warped Space-Time. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1979.
Kaufmann, William J. Galaxies and Quasars. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1979.
Rothenberg, Jerome (ed.). Technicians of the Sacred. New York: Doubleday, 1968.
Silk, Joseph, The Big Bang: The Creation and Evolution of the Universe. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1980.
Sproul, Barbara C. Primal Myths: Creating the World. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
*Stockton, A.N. “The Nature of QSO Red Shifts.” Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 223, p. 747, 1978.
Weinberg, Steven. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe. New York: Basic Books, 1977.
*White, S.D.M. and Rees, M.J. “Core Condensation in Heavy Halos: A Two-Stage Series for Galaxy Formation and Clustering.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 183, p. 341, 1978.
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Human Ancestors. Readings from Scientific American. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1979.
Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. New York: Macmillan, 1964.
Leakey, Richard E. and Lewin, Roger. Origins. New York: Dutton, 1977.
*Lehninger, Albert L. Biochemistry. New York: Worth Publishers, 1975.
*Norris, Kenneth S. (ed.). Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
*Payne, Roger and McVay, Scott. “Songs of Humpback Whales.” Science, Vol. 173, p. 585, August 1971.
Restam, Richard M. The Brain. New York: Doubleday, 1979.
Sagan, Carl. The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence. New York: Random House, 1977.
Sagan, Carl, Drake, F.D., Druyan, A., Ferris, T., Lomberg, J., and Sagan, L.S. Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record. New York: Random House, 1978.
*Stryer, Lubert. Biochemistry. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1975.
The Brain. A Scientific American Book. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1979.
*Winn, Howard E. and Olla, Bori L. (eds.). Behavior of Marine Animals, Vol. 3: Cetaceans. New York: Plenum, 1979.
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Asimov, Isaac. Extraterrestrial Civilizations. New York: Fawcett, 1979.
Budge, E.A. Wallis. Egyptian Language: Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics. New York: Dover Publications, 1976.
de Laguna, Frederica. Under Mount St. Elias: History and Culture of Yacutat Tlingit. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972.
Emmons, G.T. The Chilkat Blanket. New York: Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, 1907.
Goldsmith, D. and Owen, T. The Search for Life in the Universe. Menlo Park: Benjamin/Cummings, 1980.
Klass, Philip. UFO’s Explained. New York: Vintage, 1976.
Krause, Aurel. The Tlingit Indians. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1956.
La Pérouse, Jean F. de G., comte de. Voyage de la Pérouse Autour du Monde (four volumes). Paris: Imprimerie de la Republique, 1797.
Mallove, E., Forward, R.L., Paprotny, Z., and Lehmann, J. “Interstellar Travel and Communication: A Bibliography.” Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 33, No. 6, 1980.
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*Sagan, Carl (ed.). Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI). Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1973.
Sagan, Carl and Page, Thornton (eds.). UFO’s: A Scientific Debate. New York: W.W. Norton, 1974.
Shklovskii, I.S. and Sagan, Carl. Intelligent Life in the Universe. New York: Dell, 1967.
Story, Ron. The Space-Gods Revealed: A Close Look at the Theories of Erich von Daniken. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
Vaillant, George C. Aztecs of Mexico. New York: Pelican Books, 1965.
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Drell, Sidney D. and Von Hippel, Frank. “Limited Nuclear War.” Scientific American, Vol. 235, p. 2737, 1976.
Dyson, F. Disturbing the Universe. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
Glasstone, Samuel (ed.). The Effects of Nuclear Weapons. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1964.
Humboldt, Alexander von. Cosmos. Five volumes. London: Bell, 1871.
Murchee, G. The Seven Mysteries of Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.
Nathan, Otto and Norden, Heinz (eds.). Einstein on Peace. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.
Perrin, Noel. Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword 1543–1879. Boston: David Godine, 1979.
Prescott, James W. “Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, p. 10, November 1975.
*Richardson, Lewis F. The Statistics of Deadly Quarrels. Pittsburgh: Boxwood Press, 1960.
Sagan, Carl. The Cosmic Connection. An Extraterrestrial Perspective. New York: Doubleday, 1973.
World Armaments and Disarmament. SIPRI Yearbook, 1980 and previous years, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. New York: Crane Russak and Company, 1980 and previous years.
APPENDICES
Courant, Richard and Robbins, Herbert. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
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