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The Beginning and the End

Author:: Isaac Asimov (author)
Language:: English
Original language:: English
Publisher:: Pocket Books
Categories:: Anthology, astronomy, essay and science
Publication year:: 1978
Original publication year:: 1977
ISBN:: 0-671-47644-0
Has read?: Yes
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Introduction

A THE PAST

1 The Real Cyrano

2 Of What Use?

3 The Democracy of Learning

4 The Monsters We Have Lived With

5 The Fossil Fuels

6 A Stop of Water

B THE PRESENT

7 Smart, but Not Smart Enough?

8 Recipe for an Ocean

9 Technology and Energy

10 The Glorious Sun

11 Astronomy

12 The Large Satellites of Jupiter

13 The Natural Satellites

14 Of Life Beyond

15 The Beginning and the End

16 Gravitation, Unlimited

17 Man and Computer

C THE FUTURE

18 The Big Weather Change

19 Tighten Your Belt

20 America—A.D. 2176

21 The Coming Decades in Space

22 Colonizing the Heavens

23 The Moon as Threshold