Focussing upon the more calamitous cosmic events affecting biological evolution and civilization's advance, this book aims to provide a better understanding of the (paradigm) shift in knowledge and social outlook which is taking place at the present time.The book contends that although m an may choose to believe in a benign cosmos, the real cosmos frequently intrudes and these intrusions have a terminating power extending from civilization to the human species as a whole. We now recognize the hazard in the forms of Spenglerian crises, cosmic winters, ice ages, impact catastrophes and mass extinction.
- ISBN10 981023015X
- ISBN13 9789810230159
- Publish Date 31 August 1999
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 25 January 2006
- Publish Country SG
- Imprint World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 250
- Language English