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Questioning the millennium : a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown / Stephen Jay Gould.

Title
Questioning the millennium : a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown / Stephen Jay Gould.
Author
Gould, Stephen Jay.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

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Description
221 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Two thousand, A.D
  • Millennium (Eschatology)
  • Calendar > Social aspects
Note
  • Includes index.
  • "1999" on spine.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Our Precisely Arbitrary Millennium -- 1.What? -- Redefining the Millennium: From Sacred Showdowns to Current Countdowns -- 2.When? -- Dousing Diminutive Dennis's Debate (DDDD = 2000) -- 3.Why? -- pt. One Bloody-Minded Nature -- pt. Two Five Weeks.
ISBN
  • 9780674061644 (pbk.)
  • 0674061640 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2011018302
OCLC
  • 709670360
  • SCSB-10553099
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library