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    Death from the Skies!: The Science Behind the End of the World (Paperback) By (author) Philip Plait, By (author) Ph D Philip Plait

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    Short Description for Death from the Skies!With wit, humor, and an infectious love of astronomy that could win over even the science-phobic, this fun and fascinating book presents some of the most fearsome end-of-the-world calamities, and gives the odds on whether any of them will actually occur.
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  • With wit, humor, and an infectious love of astronomy that could win over even the science-phobic, this fun and fascinating book reminds us that outer space is anything but remote. The scientist behind the popular website badastronomy.com, Philip Plait presents some of the most fearsome end-of-the-world calamities (for instance, incoming asteroids and planet-swallowing black holes), demystifies the scientific principles at work behind them, and gives us the odds that any of them will step out of the realm of sci-fi to disrupt our quiet corner of the cosmos. The result is a book that is both terrifying and entertaining-a tour of the violent universe we live in, written with an enthusiasm that every stargazer will appreciate.