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A brilliant overview of the last 40 years of global politics, and how neoliberal influence has driven the restoration of class power all over the world.

Very clear and comprehensible insight into the world of neutrinos, how they were first discovered and the amazing journey that led to its introduction into the standard model of physics.

This book is about man's curiosity towards the stars and how this curiosity has spurred our scientific research. He explains, in very understandable terms, human history and its history in the Galaxy with an unbreidled enthousiasm that is really pulls in the reader. Mister Sagan takes us on an epic voyage through all of space and time, where he teaches us about our solar system and its creation, about the evolution of mankind and its future, and he explores the most strange and fascinating places in the universe, and how we as a species have unravelled these mysteries, and how we keep unravelling the myriads of mysteries that lay before us.

I found this book to be a marvellous prediction of how our future will look like. The eugenics, indoctrination and the handing out of calming psycho-actives has merely begun in this age, so when we look a couple generations further into the abyss of the future, we might suspect mr. Huxley was right on the money. What I liked most in this read was the second part of the book, "Brave New World Revisited", where the author, after many years, reflects back on his predictions, at times explaining them while at other times updating his views.

This is an excellent little book on the illusion of free will. [a:Sam Harris|16593|Sam Harris|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1274184541p2/16593.jpg] delivers excellent reasoning, especially with his neuroscientific background, so his authority on this topic is almost immediately apparent.