- Culture, Devil, Evolution, Good and evil
In a sweeping narrative that moves lucidly among sophisticated scientific disciplines and covers the entire span of the earth's, as well as mankind's, history, Howard Bloom challenges some of our most popular scientific assumptions.
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- Author
- Howard K. Bloom
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 481
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Atlantic Monthly Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780802142412
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