Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing? Lawrence Krauss' provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million viewers...read more

A tour through the celestial apocalypse, from Revelations to the 'Big Crunch,' covers such topics as the impact of comets and asteroids on Earth, the implications of eclipses and black holes, and the ultimate fate of the universe.

Product Description: Humans are all well aware of the risks to the earth from nuclear weapons and pollution, but there exist other external threats to Earth and our solar system. Frank close discusses and evaluates the dangers from meteor showers, comets, rogue planets and the sun as well as the potential problems of "dark matter", the collapse of the universe under its own gravity, and the possible instability of matter itself...read more