| DEATH FROM THE SKIES! These are the Ways the World Will End Philip Plait New York: Viking Penguin, October 2008 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-670-01997-7 | ||||
| ISBN 0-670-01997-6 | 326pp. | HC/BWI | $25.95 | |
| Introduction | 1 | |
| CHAPTER 1: | Target Earth: Asteroid and Comet Impacts | 7 |
| CHAPTER 2: | Sunburn | 33 |
| CHAPTER 3: | The Stellar Fury of Supernovae | 67 |
| CHAPTER 4: | Cosmic Blowtorches: Gamma-Ray Bursts | 102 |
| CHAPTER 5: | The Bottomless Pits of Black Holes | 133 |
| CHAPTER 6: | Alien Attack! | 165 |
| CHAPTER 7: | The Death of the Sun | 195 |
| CHAPTER 8: | Bright Lights, Big Galaxy | 224 |
| CHAPTER 9: | The End of Everything | 259 |
| Epilogue: What, Me Worry? | 297 | |
| Acknowledgements | 309 | |
| Appendix | 311 | |
| Index | 313 | |
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