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Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century?
Martin Rees
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Description for Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century?
Paperback. Our planet may be insignificant on a cosmic scale, but the evolution of intelligent life here makes it unusual, it is likely to be unique in our galaxy. Yet we may be on the verge of destroying int, of destroying ourselves - over the next century the future of life in the cosmos could be either jeopardised - of safeguarded for perpetuity. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFFC; JFFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 174.
World authority on astrophysics, Sir Martin Rees, takes us on a journey through all the things which could wipe out mankind in the near future. From asteroids to disease to scientific discoveries gone wrong (from nanobots to the large Hadron collider) these are scenarios from disaster movies, analysed with a serious scientific eye. Some of these things definitely won't happen, some genuinely might – this is one book you won't be able to put down and which you'll never forget.
World authority on astrophysics, Sir Martin Rees, takes us on a journey through all the things which could wipe out mankind in the near future. From asteroids to disease to scientific discoveries gone wrong (from nanobots to the large Hadron collider) these are scenarios from disaster movies, analysed with a serious scientific eye. Some of these things definitely won't happen, some genuinely might – this is one book you won't be able to put down and which you'll never forget.
Product Details
Publisher
Arrow London
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099436867
SKU
V9780099436867
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About Martin Rees
Sir Martin Rees FRS is the most eminent cosmologist in Britain, the Astronomer Royal and Professor at Cambridge. He lives in Cambridge.
Reviews for Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century?
Sir Martin is no doom merchant ... His prognostications, written in laymen's language, are all the more chilling for the reasonable tone in which they are expressed
Sunday Telegraph
Alarming, certainly, but alarmist never - Rees delivers his terrible prophecies with donnish understatement
The Evening Standard
One of the most provocative and unsettling books ... Read more
Sunday Telegraph
Alarming, certainly, but alarmist never - Rees delivers his terrible prophecies with donnish understatement
The Evening Standard
One of the most provocative and unsettling books ... Read more