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Miller, Ron

Is the End of the World Near?: From Crackpot Predictions to Scientific Scenarios

120 pp. | Twenty-First Century | October, 2011 | Library ISBN 978-0-7613-7396-4 $33.26

(3) YA Miller examines doomsday scenarios for their scientific merit or lack thereof. First he debunks religious and cultural myths and twentieth-century pseudoscience predictions, then he digs into more probable ways that the earth or the human race could end: through radiation bursts, asteroid impacts, disease, global warming, or nuclear war. Stock color photographs and illustrations round out the compelling volume. Reading list, timeline, websites. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford