Curiosity

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Curiosity

By Alberto Manguel

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About the book

An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does lang...Show more

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ISBN

9780300219807

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2016

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1

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Curiosity

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Paperback

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