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Questioning the Millennium is Stephen Jay Gould's 1997 book on the cultural and historical meaning of the millennium.
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- PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION
Predicting: The Biggest Millennial Fallacy
- PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Our Precisely Arbitrary Millennium
- WHAT?
- WHEN?
- WHY?
- Part One: Bloody-Minded Nature
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With a humorous Everyman approach, Gould juggles a mind-boggling array of various calendrical concepts as he explains why creating a reliable calendar was one of man's greatest struggles. Whether nailing down the precise date of the birth of Christ or airing his suspicion that God is a New York Yankees fan, Gould teaches rather than preaches. |
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—Entertainment Weekly
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Gould eloquently charts . . . our stubborn, foolish, and occasionally glorious efforts, through science, religion, and philosophy, to continue to try to understand. |
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—The New York Times
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In Questioning the Millennium, a collection of three witty and erudite essays . . . the noted paleontologist and science popularizer ponders the meaning of the upcoming calendar hoopla. As always, he is irreverent, idiosyncratic, and original. |
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—San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle
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However out-of-left-field the subject, [Gould] still manages to charm with characteristically energetic, down-to-earth lucidity. Gently iconoclastic, always illuminating essays from the science writer whose prose can bring to life not only theories but even the fossils themselves. |
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—Kirkus Reviews
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