Billions and billions. Reflections on life and death at the turn of the millennia

This is the last book of the famous scientist and popularizer of science by Karl Sagan. In his characteristic intelligible and visual manner, Sagan shows how knowledge in the field of natural sciences and mathematics is used in our daily life, and also considers the most important problems associated with the environment and future of mankind. The sphere of his interests is wide and diverse: it easily moves from the question of inventing chess to the possibility of life on Mars, from the origins of our addictions to football to relations between the United States and Russia, from global warming to the debate about the right of a woman to abortion. In the last essay that the author wrote, struggling with a fatal ailment, his revelations regarding love for family and personal attitude to death and God are presented