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How it Ends
Chris Impey
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Description for How it Ends
Paperback. "Remarkably upbeat, and imbued with wit, wisdom and a palpable sense of awe over our universe."-Tucson Weekly Num Pages: 352 pages, 68 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 298.
Most of us are aware of our own mortality, but few among us know what science, with insights yielded from groundbreaking new research, has to say about endings on a larger scale. Enter astronomer Chris Impey, who chronicles the death of the whole shebang: individual, species, bio- sphere, Earth, Sun, Milky Way, and, finally, the entire universe.
With a healthy dose of humor, How It Ends illuminates everything from the technologies of human life extension and the evolutionary arms race between microbes and men to the inescapable dimming of the Sun and the ultimate “big rip,” giving ... Read more
Most of us are aware of our own mortality, but few among us know what science, with insights yielded from groundbreaking new research, has to say about endings on a larger scale. Enter astronomer Chris Impey, who chronicles the death of the whole shebang: individual, species, bio- sphere, Earth, Sun, Milky Way, and, finally, the entire universe.
With a healthy dose of humor, How It Ends illuminates everything from the technologies of human life extension and the evolutionary arms race between microbes and men to the inescapable dimming of the Sun and the ultimate “big rip,” giving ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
354
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393339987
SKU
V9780393339987
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Ref
99-1
About Chris Impey
Chris Impey is a distinguished professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona and the critically-acclaimed author of Beyond, How It Began, and How It Ends, and four other books, as well as two astronomy textbooks. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Reviews for How it Ends
"A scientific view of the apocalypse unfolds in this tour of terminations. . . . Impey entertains as he informs about the facts of life and death."
Booklist "Eminently readable. . . . Impey injects humor throughout."
Library Journal
Booklist "Eminently readable. . . . Impey injects humor throughout."
Library Journal