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How It Ends: From You to the Universe

Chris Impey

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 us a rare glimpse into a universe without us.

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2011
  • Pages: 354
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 0.90in - 0.61lb
  • EAN: 9780393339987
  • Categories: Space Science - Cosmology

About the Author

Impey, Chris: - 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.

Praise for this book

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"