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Although we may try to keep it tucked at the back of our minds, most of us are aware of our own mortality. The book talks about the end of all life including yours, as well as the end of the nonliving worlduniverse, in both a philosophical and scientific manner. Its twenty years in the life of a scot named ian mcevoy, just mcevoy to everyone he knows. Mar 26, 2012 chris impey is a distinguished professor in the department of astronomy at the university of arizona and the criticallyacclaimed author of beyond, how it began, and how it ends, and four other books, as well as two astronomy textbooks.
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