عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
CB161 .R38 2003
CB161
.
R38
2003
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0465068626
(Number (ISBN
9780465068623
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
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TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Our final hour :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century on earth and beyond /
First Statement of Responsibility
Martin Rees
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
viii, 228 pages ;
Dimensions
22 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Disasters-- Forecasting
End of the world
Twenty-first century, Forecasts
Futurology
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
303
.
49/09/05
Edition
21
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
CB161
Book number
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R38
2003
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Rees, Martin J.,1942-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20160712071547.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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