The Sagan Society
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The Sagan Society would like to recommend these books to you.  Readings like these are an important part of your higher education at UGA.

Consider checking out some of the books listed below from UGA's Main, Science, or Law libraries. Don't forget the Athens-Clarke County Library. Or, order one online.  You can buy used books cheap from Powells' Bookstore, or new books from Amazon and Barnes and Noble

Bible Prophecy: Failure or Fulfillment? by Tim Callahan (1997, 274p).

The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Nobel Laureate Francis Crick (1994).

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins (1987).

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond (1992).

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (1998). 

Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris (1988).

The Great Code: The Bible and Literature by Northrop Frye (1981).

Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession  by Robert Fuller (1995).

Fads & Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner (1957, 320p).

The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold? by Martin Gardner, ed. (1998, 157p).

Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown by Stephen Jay Gould (1997, 190p).

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter (1979).  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Scams from the Great Beyond: How to Make Easy Money Off of ESP, Astrology, UFOs, Crop Circles, Cattle Mutilations, Alien Abductions, Atlantis, Channeling, and Other New Age Nonsense by Peter Huston (1997, 201p).

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.  The #3 Book of the Century.

Ulysses by James Joyce.  The Book of the Century.

Summer for the Gods by Edward Larson (1997). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human. by Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin. (1992).

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are by Carl Sagan (1992, 505p).

The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan (1996, 457p).

Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan (1997, 241p).

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