Do you feel like we are living in the last days? Does it seem like everything is on the brink and one disaster follows another? A small comforting fact is that you are not the first to feel this way. If there is one thing people throughout history agree on, it is that history will not be around for much longer.

This book is about the apocalypse and how people have always believed it is very near. Over thousands of years, we will encounter strange sects, failed prophets, and mass panics, holy warriors leading revolutions with the expectation of the last days, and suburbanites waiting for aliens to save them from a doomed Earth. We will travel back to the 'worst time to be alive,' as the world is shaken by a simultaneous pandemic and environmental crisis. And we will look to the future to pose the unsettling question: how might it all end?

But it is also a book about how we live in a world where disaster is always in the air - whether it's a madman with a nuclear button or the slow burn of environmental collapse. Because when we talk about the end of the world, we actually mean the end of our world. Our obsession with doomsday is really about change: our fear of it, our desire for it, and how - ultimately - we can find hope in it.

Pages: 384, Year of Publication: 0225, Dimensions: 15.2x15.2cm