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Summary: Questioning the Millennium
Review: Stephen Jay Gould is entertaining. His work Questioning the Millennium is that questioning, but entertaining. I like Gould as an author and his essays are thought provoking.This work is no different. Complex calendars and the idea of a millennium and how it effects us as a whole. A whole host of ideas brought to us from Gould's questioning mind. This is a rather short work of essays, but no less provoking. As with all of Gould's essays... either you like them or despise them, idiosyncrasies and all. Nonetheless this is entertaining.
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Summary: Questioning the Millennium
Review: Stephen Jay Gould is entertaining. His work Questioning the Millennium is that questioning, but entertaining. I like Gould as an author and his essays are thought provoking. This work is no different. Complex calendars and the idea of a millennium and how it effects us as a whole. A whole host of ideas brought to us from Gould's questioning mind. This is a rather short work of essays, but no less provoking. As with all of Gould's essays... either you like them or despise them, idiosyncrasies and all. Nonetheless this is entertaining.
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Summary: Typical Stephen Jay Gould -- interesting, informative
Review: Stephen Jay Gould takes a topic we think we know something about and then turns us -- not the topic -- on our heads and gives us a new view. Just what a century IS would seem to be clear, but it's not, especially since we're about to change all of the digits in the year after 1999. Sometimes one has to read Gould a couple of times to be perfectly clear what he's saying, but it's worth it. And he's at his absolute best talking baseball. Efrem Zimbalist is a good reader.
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Summary: a great read
Review: The book was of perfect length. I thought it was a difficult to put down, information-rich short essay. I can honestly say that I've never really thought about calendrics before and Gould gives a wonderful description of the arbitrary and somewhat absurd nature of placing these numbers on nature. The book is concise and cohesive and ends on a beautiful note. I'll never look at easter and christmas the same and finally I understand leap years!
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Summary: should have looked at his e-mail, because,
Review: the Millennium Event has been verified by the researchers at PEAR, Princeton University-School of Applied Science. Kochab, orange giant, in the little dipper, exhausted its fuel, and is a "supernova." The explosion should be seen in 1999....details:
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Summary: Mostly boring
Review: This book is as interesting as it is long. Which is to say, not very.
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Summary: Stick this in everyone's stocking
Review: This is one of those rare tomes that I believe should be read by everyone. It shows the silliness of human behavior in several instances, and how unimportant dates and times really are. It is sufficient to say, "I'll meet you by the well when the sun is high." Try it, and if you don't like it, then a brain transfer is in order!
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Summary: When is a century not a century? Gould at his best.
Review: This provocative series of essays covers such topics as evolutionary biology, Christian history, astronomy and calendrics to arrive at a discussion of when to celebrate the new century -- 2000 or 2001. It is brightly written and fun to listen to, even if you have to listen to it a second time to make sure you understood what he was saying.
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Summary: Cuts through the silliness with facts and reason
Review: Whatever your opinion about the Millennium, this book will give you some facts to fill in the blanks of your knowledge. Gould is expert at this sort of explanation and at backing up his opinion with reason. It's well written, enjoyable and even surprisingly heart-warming in parts. Gould's opinion will be disappointing to all those people who feel that if something arbitrary was held true by experts in the past, we must follow it to the letter forevermore. His opinion will be refreshing to those who want to know WHY, WHAT, and WHEN and to those who would celebrate while the red-faced sticklers grumble.
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Summary: A Joyous Quest In Search Of The Millenium
Review: Without a doubt, this is one of the thinner volumes in Gould's prolific canon of fine scientific writing. Once more we are blessed with Gould's excellent erudition and prose, looking at the concept of a millenium from religious, historical and scientific perspectives. Although Gould does not give a definitive answer as to when the current millenium begins, he does acknowledge that traditionalists would regard 2001 as the start of the 21st Century and the third millenium of the Christian Era. Anyone interested in a joyous, intriguing look on the notion of a millenium should not miss this slender tome.
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