Alok Jha: 5 books

Book cover of Manuale dell’apocalisse

Manuale dell’apocalisse

Cinquanta ipotesi sulla fine del mondo

by Alok Jha
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 15, 2014

Il mondo come noi lo conosciamo finirà. Presto o tardi, ma finirà. Semmai sarebbe opportuno domandarci quale sarà la fine che attende il nostro pianeta e, con esso, tutta l’umanità che ospita e contiene. Alok Jha, in questo libro dall’apparenza catastrofistica e scanzonata, ma in realtà una...
Book cover of 50 Ways the World Could End

50 Ways the World Could End

The Doomsday Handbook

by Alok Jha
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011

Death by Euphoria. Dysgenics. Population Death Spiral. Genetic Superhumans. Geomagnetic Reversal. Galactic Collision. Strangelets. Whether we like it or not, everything's going to come to a pretty unpleasant halt on our planet at some point in the future. What we don't know is what form our...
Book cover of The Doomsday Handbook
by Alok Jha
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

We live in a world positively teeming with threats and apocalyptic scenarios. Many of them are familiar: terrorism, deadly viruses, global warming and war, but many others most of us can't even imagine: self-replicating nanobots that can devour an entire planet, high-energy experiments that threaten...
Book cover of Il libro dell'acqua

Il libro dell'acqua

La storia straordinaria della più ordinaria delle sostanze

by Alok Jha
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 17, 2016

Tra le sostanze presenti sulla Terra, l’acqua è probabilmente l’unica di cui proprio tutti conoscono la formula chimica: H2O. Ma possiamo davvero dire di conoscere fino in fondo questa sostanza così comune e, all’apparenza, così semplice? L’acqua si muove in continuazione, si trova sotto...
Book cover of How to Live Forever

How to Live Forever

And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Science

by Alok Jha
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012

How to clone a sheep. How to build a brain. How to boil a planet. How to save the world. From the microscopic to the cosmic, this book takes you on a glorious tour of the known universe and beyond, encompassing alien worlds, bizarre life forms, quantum weirdness, parallel dimensions and dissected brains along the way.
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