A story based loosely around the state of Bardo from the Tibetan Book of the Dead - an intermediate state where the dead arrive prior to rebirth. Accustomed to a life of seclusion at home with his parents, Valentine is suddenly faced with making his own in a bizarre world.
Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe. All of this was artificial. All this was temporary. All this is ending.
This volume examines historical and imaginary scenarios of apocalypse, the depiction of its likely triggers, and imagined landscapes in the aftermath of global destruction.
It's just a matter of when. A Guide to the End of the World focuses on the many potential catastrophes facing our planet and our species in the future, and looks at both the probability of these events happening and our chances of survival.
This is no ordinary novel.
This is no ordinary apocalypse.
In this deeply knowledgeable book, two leading historians of the Maya answer these questions in a succinct, readable, and accessible style. Matthew Restall and Amara Solari introduce, explain, and ultimately demystify the 2012 phenomenon.
In this “often riotous, ultimately moving Cat’s Cradle for our time,” a Texas couple prepares for the apocalypse (Kirkus Reviews).
Derrick is sure that doomsday is coming, and he's prepping to survive--whether his friends believe him or not--in this middle grade novel for readers of Gary Schmidt, Gordon Korman, and Jack Gantos Ever since his mother was killed in the ...
See also Hodgson 1991, pp. 110–11, 383–8, 401–20; Herbert 1993, chapter 10; and Penrose 1994, particularly chapter 7. Feynman 1960. Amabilino and Stoddart 1994. von Neumann 1966. Drexler 1986, p. 19. Drexler 1992.
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions.