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Questioning the millennium : a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown
- Title
- Questioning the millennium : a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown / Stephen Jay Gould.
- Author
- Gould, Stephen Jay.
- Publication
- New York : Harmony Books, [1997]
- ©1997
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | CB161 .G67 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 190 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
- Summary
- A series of essays in which the author shares his interest and insights into the coming millenium, focusing on questions of calendrics, astronomy, and history.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Millennium.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Preface: 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? Part One: Bloody-Minded Nature. Part Two: Five Weeks.
- ISBN
- 0609600761
- 9780609600764
- LCCN
- 97006662
- OCLC
- ocm36548842
- 36548842
- SCSB-2128322
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library