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Questioning the Millennium A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown

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Publisher's Synopsis

Gould looks at the origins of the term millennium in the Biblical prophecies, describes how the meaning of the word has evolved to its present usage, and tackles the debate over whether the millennium ends in 1999 or at the end of 2000AD.

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Vintage

Vintage

Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

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ISBN: 9780099283324
Publisher: Vintage
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
DEWEY: 529.2
DEWEY edition: 21
Number of pages: 190
Weight: 215g
Height: 197mm
Width: 129mm

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