| How It Ends: From You to the Universe Contributor(s): Impey, Chris (Author) |
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ISBN: 039333998X ISBN-13: 9780393339987 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Cosmology |
| Dewey: 523.19 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.61 lbs) 354 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 us a rare glimpse into a universe without us. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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. |
