Countdown to the Millennium
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780102002003
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780102002003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mona Johnian
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Published: 1994-12-12
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ISBN-13: 9780882707198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Great Britain. Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 10
ISBN-13: 9780101458924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John J. Kohut
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780452269156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe three News of the Weird bestsellers have demonstrated that lunacy is alive and well, and that modern life is getting loopier every day. This new collection of incredible news bulletins is proof positive that truth really is stranger than fiction.
Author: Rodney Matthews
Publisher: Collins & Brown
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9781850283942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of fantasy and science fiction works by illustrator Rodney Matthews.
Author: Rodney Matthews
Publisher: Overlook Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780879517809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor almost 30 years, the visionary art of Rodney Matthews has been published worldwide on album covers, posters, books, T-shirts, and now on CD-ROM. This book includes the first comprehensive catalog of Matthews' album cover work and provides a glimpse of his computer game designs and exciting upcoming TV projects. 100 color illustrations.
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2012-01-04
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 0609606107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this new edition of Questioning the Millennium, best-selling author Stephen Jay Gould applies his wit and erudition to one of today's most pressing subjects: the significance of the millennium. In 1950 at age eight, prompted by an issue of Life magazine marking the century's midpoint, Stephen Jay Gould started thinking about the approaching turn of the millennium. In this beautiful inquiry into time and its milestones, he shares his interest and insights with his readers. Refreshingly reasoned and absorbing, the book asks and answers the three major questions that define the approaching calendrical event. First, what exactly is this concept of a millennium and how has its meaning shifted? How did the name for a future thousand-year reign of Jesus Christ on earth get transferred to the passage of a secular period of a thousand years in current human history? When does the new millennium really begin: January 1, 2000, or January 1, 2001? (Although seemingly trivial, the debate over this issue tells an intriguing story about the cultural history of the twentieth century.) And why must our calendars be so complex, leading to our search for arbitrary regularity, including a fascination with millennia? This revised edition begins with a new and extensive preface on a key subject not treated in the original version. As always, Gould brings into his essays a wide range of compelling historical and scientific fact, including a brief history of millennial fevers, calendrical traditions, and idiosyncrasies from around the world; the story of a sixth-century monk whose errors in chronology plague us even today; and the heroism of a young autistic man who has developed the extraordinary ability to calculate dates deep into the past and the future. Ranging over a wide terrain of phenomena--from the arbitrary regularities of human calendars to the unpredictability of nature, from the vagaries of pop culture to the birth of Christ--Stephen Jay Gould holds up the mirror to our millennial passions to reveal our foibles, absurdities, and uniqueness--in other words, our humanity.
Author: Ohio University. School of Telecommunications
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Published: 1999*
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