Comet
by Carl Sagan | 
Pale Blue Dot
by Carl Sagan | 
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard P. Feynman | 
Physics of the Impossible
by Michio Kaku | 
Black Holes and Time Warps
by Kip S. Thorne | 
Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur
by Tom Lancaster | 
Nightwatch
by Terence Dickinson | 
The Character of Physical Law
by Richard P. Feynman | 
Einstein and the Quantum
by A. Douglas Stone | 
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
by Richard Courant | 
The Singularity Is Near
by Ray Kurzweil | 
Universe
by Martin Rees | 
The Machinery of Life
by David S. Goodsell | 
The Music of the Primes
by Marcus du Sautoy | 
Theoretical Physics
by Georg Joos | 
Understanding the Universe
by Don Lincoln | 
Power, Sex, Suicide
by Nick Lane | 
The Ocean World
by Jacques-Yves Cousteau | 
Every Day On Earth
by Steve Murrie | 
The Tangled Web
by Michal Zalewski |
In 1977, two extraodinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copper phonograph record as a message to possible extra-terrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft in some distant space and time. Each record contained 118 photographs of our planet; almost 90 minutes of the world's greatest music; an evolutionary audio essay on "The Sounds of Earth"; and greetings in almost sixty human languages (and one whale language). This book is an account, written by those chiefly responsible for the contents of the Voyager Record, of why they did it, how they selected the repertoire, and precisely what the record contains.