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A Is for Armageddon is a stunningly illustrated, eye-openingly informative, and wickedly entertaining catalog of disasters that may possibly culminate in the end of the world as we know it. Richard Horne--author of 101 Things to Do Before You Die and illustrator of the blockbuster New York Times bestseller The Dangerous Book for Boys, as well as the covers for J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter School Books for Comic Relief, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Quidditch Through the Ages--combines science, religion, and sociology with good old fashioned paranoia to explore humankind's dire future. From the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to super volcanoes, A Is for Armageddon is a delectable compendium of doom--and in plenty of time for 2012!

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A beautifully illustrated, delightfully dystopian guide to the apocalypse. --BrainPickings.org Richard Horne's beautifully illustrated new book 'A Is for Armageddon: An Illustrated Catalogue of Disasters' is the perfect last-minute gift for the end of days alarmist on your holiday list. --Flavorpill A catalog of potentially life-on-earth-ending catastrophes that will warm a pessimist's heart...Horne takes a decidedly tongue-in-cheek approach to the end of days, reveling, like any good pessimist, in the sheer misery of it all. His compendium is colorfully illustrated and quite exhaustive. --The New Yorker For real calamity, Richard Horne is your man, and A Is for Armageddon is his illustrated catalog of all the ways you and the world might bite it. In his hands the means to the End become wonders to behold...[A] Technicolor parade of visual metaphors. --New York Times Horne gives us an Armageddon that's vivid and flashy with hip characterizations and humor that's the equivalent of the comic relief in a Shakespearean tragedy....Don't let the jokes and splashy colors fool you, though. He's as thoughtful as he is comprehensive. --Los Angeles Times

Horne gives us an Armageddon that's vivid and flashy with hip characterizations and humor that's the equivalent of the comic relief in a Shakespearean tragedy....Don't let the jokes and splashy colors fool you, though. He's as thoughtful as he is comprehensive. --Los Angeles Times

A beautifully illustrated, delightfully dystopian guide to the apocalypse. --BrainPickings.org

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Richard Horne is a British writer, graphic designer, and artist whose bestselling books (published in sixteen languages worldwide) include 101 Things to Do Before You Die, 101 Things to Do Before You're Old and Boring, and 101 Things You Need to Know . . . and Some You Don't! The illustrator of The Dangerous Book for Boys, Horne also designed and illustrated the covers for J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter School Books for Comic Relief series, including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages. He lives in London.

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