Questioning the Millennium
- Questioning the Millennium
Infobox Book
name =Questioning the Millennium
author =Stephen Jay Gould
genre =Non-fiction, Science
publisher =Harmony Books
release_date =1997
2nd ed. 1999
pages =224
isbn =ISBN 0-609-60541-0
preceded_by =
followed_by =Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
"Questioning the Millennium" is Stephen Jay Gould's 1997 book on the cultural and historical meaning of the millennium.
Contents
- PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION
"Predicting: The Biggest Millennial Fallacy"
- PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION
"Our Precisely Arbitrary Millennium"
- WHAT?
- " [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0609605410/ Redefining the Millennium: From Sacred Showdowns to Current Countdowns] "
- WHEN?
- " [http://www.dilettantepress.com/Essayisthtdocs/Stephen_Jay_Gould.html Dousing Diminutive Dennis's Debate (or DDDD = 2000)] "
- WHY?
- "Part One: Bloody-Minded Nature"
=Blurbs=
Reviews
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07EFDA1131F93AA35752C1A961958260&pagewanted=print The Big Round One] - by Robert Eisner, "The New York Times"
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E0DD1039F932A25752C1A961958260&pagewanted=print 2,000 Years, What's the Big Deal?] - by Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
* [http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1313214 Book review]
Multimedia
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8358969522052723135#20m40s "Questioning the Millennium"] - interview with Gould on "Charlie Rose"
* [http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/2000/coverage.html "Questioning the Millenium "] - interview with Gould on "All Things Considered"
* [http://www.cambridgeforum.org/cfsnd/sjg.ram "Millennium Anxiety"] - interview with Gould on "The Cambridge Forum"
External links
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780609605417 Harmony Books promotional page]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780609605417&view=excerpt Book excerpt]
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_3_109/ai_61524419/print The First Day of the Rest of Our Life] - millennial essay by Stephen Jay Gould
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