(1st) 259 pages. Mathematics of Catastrophe, Black Holes, Velikovsky, ancient myths, genetic engineering, quakes, Ice Ages, Extinction--one cheerful book. DJ and book, both Very Fine.

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Title

Doomsday : The Science of Catastrophe

Publisher

Reader's Digest Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Publication Date

1977

Language

English

ISBN 10

0883491397

ISBN 13

9780883491393

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Fine

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Science

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Synopsis

Catastrophe is an essential force in nature, not aberrational, but inevitable. Catastrophe is a creative event that we must accept as such. There is no antiscientism about such a philosophical acceptance, nor should this book be considered an attack on science. Rather, it hopes to offer a slightly different perspective on our understanding of the universe. With that viewpoint we intend to point out once again what the British biologist J. B. S. Haldane had learned at the close of a long and distinguished career: "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

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