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"Comets, Creators and Destroyers" by David H. Levy.

Softcover, ex-library edition, minor shelf wear - good clean used copy and binding.  256 pages with photos and illustrations. 

From the Booklist description -

After a comet he codiscovered crashed into Jupiter in 1994 (chronicled in Levy's Impact Jupiter, 1995), the author became a popular expositor about the icy harbingers of catastrophe. Because two disaster movies starring comets are calculated to hit theaters this summer, the publisher is positioning at ground zero Levy's inexpensive introduction to the subject. Appealing to readers who, just having seen Mother Earth demolished on the big screen, want to know how threatening comets are in reality, Levy explains how astronomers developed an understanding of their real nature and locations in the solar system, their possible role in supplying the earth's life-giving water and carbon, and the evidence of their contribution to cataclysmic extinctions. (The library must-have regarding the dinosaurs' demise is T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez, 1997.) Levy's excitement should rub off on readers getting their first taste of facts and superstitions about comets. An easy call: this will circulate in any library.