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Product Description: Apocalyptic Anxiety traces the sources of American cultureâs obsession with predicting and preparing for the apocalypse. Author Anthony Aveni explores why Americans take millennial claims seriously, where and how end-of-the-world predictions emerge, how they develop within a broader historical framework, and what we can learn from doomsday predictions of the past...read more
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9781607324706 | Univ Pr of Colorado, May 2, 2016, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Apocalyptic Anxiety traces the sources of American cultureâs obsession with predicting and preparing for the apocalypse.
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9781607323020 | Univ Pr of Colorado, October 15, 2014, cover price $16.95
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9780870819612 | 1 edition (Univ Pr of Colorado, October 15, 2009), cover price $19.95
Product Description: Gazing into the black skies from the Anasazi observatory at Chimney Rock or the Castillo Pyramid in the Maya ruins of Chichén Itzá, a modern visitor might wonder what ancient stargazers looked for in the skies and what they saw...read more
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9780870819001 | Univ Pr of Colorado, September 30, 2008, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Gazing into the black skies from the Anasazi observatory at Chimney Rock or the Castillo Pyramid in the Maya ruins of Chichén Itzá, a modern visitor might wonder what ancient stargazers looked for in the skies and what they saw.
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9780500051528 | Thames & Hudson, May 1, 2008, cover price $29.95
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9780465019519 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, June 1, 1991), cover price $12.95 | also contains Sparky's First Space Adventure: Space Is a Fun, Scary Space | About this edition: Compares contemporary timekeeping methods and related cultural perspectives to those of seminomadic tribes and classical civilizations, tracing the influence of calendars, datebooks, clocks, and other means of measuring humankind's most valuable commodity
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