Countdown!
Or, How Nigh is the End?
Will be published approx. on 29. September 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-7524-5222-7 (ISBN)
Description
Written with his trademark combination of wit and accessible science, and updated to include the latest theories on asteroids and climate change, this is a must-read book for anyone with an interest in popular science in general, and how the world might end in particular.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 120 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-5222-7 (9780752452227)
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E-Book
09/2009
The History Press Ltd
€8.49
Available for download
Person
Sir PATRICK MOORE attained almost legendary status as an astronomer, writer and broadcaster. A former president of the British Astronomical Society and the Society for Popular Astronomy, he presented The Sky at Night on television for over fifty years. The author of more than seventy books on astronomy, he was also an accomplished composer, pianist and xylophonist. He lived in Selsey, West Sussex.