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پدید آورنده
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رده
CB161 .R38 2003
CB161
.
R38
2003
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
0465068626
9780465068623
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Our final hour :
[Book]
a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century on earth and beyond /
Martin Rees
viii, 228 pages ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index
Prologue -- Technology shock -- The doomsday clock: have we been lucky to survive this long? -- Post-2000 threats: terror and error -- Perpetrators and palliatives -- Slowing science down? -- Baseline natural hazards: asteroid impacts -- Human threats to earth -- Extreme risks: a Pascalian wager -- The doomsday philosophers -- The end of science? -- Does our fate have cosmic significance? -- Beyond earth -- Epilogue
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Publisher's description: Bolstered by unassailable science and delivered in eloquent style, Our Final Hour's provocative argument that humanity has a mere 50/50 chance of surviving the next century has struck a chord with readers, reviewers, and opinion-makers everywhere. Rees's vision of our immediate future is both a work of stunning scientific originality and a humanistic clarion call on behalf of the future of life
Disasters-- Forecasting
End of the world
Twenty-first century, Forecasts
Futurology
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49/09/05
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CB161
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R38
2003
Rees, Martin J.,1942-
20160712071547.0
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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