Doomsday Handbook: 50 Ways the World Could End -

Alok Jha

Quercus

2011

272 páginas

9h 4m

ISBN-13: 9781782069461

We live in a world teeming with deadly threats and apocalyptic horrors. Many of them are familiar: terrorism, lethal viruses, global warming and war, but many others most of us can't even imagine: self-replicating nanobots that can devour an entire planet, high-energy experiments that threaten to suck the Earth into a mini black hole, and even super-sophisticated scientific devices that can put an end to the entire universe. All these and more are explored in Alok Jha's lively and entertaining book. Ranging in scope from the very real perils of chemical pollution, resource depletion and overpopulation to the wilder shores of strangelets, superstorms and extraterrestrial invasion, The Doomsday Handbook is your complete guide to the science and sociology behind each potential apocalypse and what (if anything) we can do to prevent it.

This is an electrifying trip through the multitude of terrors vying to wipe out our species.

Resenhas (1)

3 (Bom)

A little book about apocalyptic scenarios. Like all the books of this kind, some of the selected scenarios are funny and interesting and others are a bit boring and borderline nonsensical. Anyway it is a funny book and each chapter is self-contained.