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Each time history repeats itself, the cost goes up. The twentieth century—a time of unprecedented progress—has produced a tremendous strain on the very elements that comprise life itself: This raises the key question of the twenty-first century: How much longer can this go on? With wit and... read more

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THE FRENCH PAINTER and writer Paul Gauguin - by most accounts mad, bad, and dangerous to know - suffered acutely from cosmological vertigo induced by the work of Darwin and other Victorian scientists.

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  1. Ronald Wright (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0786715472
Page Count: 224

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