La única novela que escribió, Carl Sagan imagina una gran aventura, el primer encuentro del hombre con otros seres inteligentes.

At first it seemed impossible - a radio signal that came not from Earth but from far beyond the nearest stars. But then the signal was translated, and what had been impossible became terrifying. For the signal contains the information to build a Machine that can travel to the stars. A Machine that can take a human to meet those that sent the message. They are eager to meet us: ...(展开全部)

In December， 1999， a multinational team journeys out to the stars， to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there?In Cosmos， Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact， he predicts its future -- and our own.

At first it seemed impossible - a radio signal that came not from Earth but from far beyond the nearest stars. But then the signal was translated, and what had been impossible became terrifying. For the signal contains the information to build a Machine that can travel to the stars. A Machine that can take a human to meet those that sent the message. They are eager to meet us: ...(展开全部)

The noted family therapist presents innovative concepts and techniques conducive to changing one's habits of communication and to establishing open, constructive, and life-enhancing modes of contact and communication within family relationships

In process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact. From woodcut and engraving to lithography and screenprinting, every print is the record of a contact event: the transfer of an image between surfaces, under pressure, followed by release. Contact reveals how the physical properties of print have their own poetics and politics and provides a new framework for u...(展开全部)

克里斯汀•鲁本,纽约国际摄影中心副馆长，曾出版《苏珊•梅瑟拉斯：历史》与《艾米利亚•厄尔哈特：图像与符号》。

Thomas F. Pettigrew是加利福尼亚大学圣克鲁兹分校的社会心理学研究教授。自1956年起，他已经发表了超过400篇论文、书的章节以及评论，以及16本书和专著。佩蒂格鲁因其在过去半个世纪将社会心理学的关注点集中于群际接触领域而广受认可。本书的研究聚焦在找到宏观（文化和结构）、中观（情境）和微观（个体）水平的社会科学理论和研究的联接之上，而群际接触正是构成了这样的一种联接。佩蒂格鲁曾担任社会问题心理研究学会（SPSSI）的主席，曾获得过协会的柯特勒温杰出贡献奖，并两次获得协会的戈登奥尔波特群际研究奖。2002年，实验社会心理学会授予他杰出科学家奖。 Linda R. Tropp是马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的心理学副教授，以及该校和平与暴力心理学项目的主席。她主要的研究兴趣是多数地位群体和少数地位群体的成员间发生的群际接触经验、对社会群体的认同...(展开全部)

Sarah G. Thomason is Professor of Linguistics at University of Michigan.

Surveying situations in which language contact arises, Sarah G. Thomason focuses on what happens to the languages themselves: sometimes nothing, sometimes the incorporation of new words, sometimes the spread of new sounds and sentence structures across many languages and wide swathes of territory. She outlines the origins and results of contact-induced language change, extreme ...(展开全部)