How It Ends: From You to the Universe

Author:   Chris Impey (University of Arizona in Tucson)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
ISBN:  

9780393069853


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   19 April 2010
Replaced By:   9780393339987
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained


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How It Ends: From You to the Universe


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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.

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Author:   Chris Impey (University of Arizona in Tucson)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.639kg
ISBN:  

9780393069853


ISBN 10:   0393069850
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   19 April 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Replaced By:   9780393339987
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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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.

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