Uncommon Sense: Understanding Nature's Truths Across Time and Culture

by Anthony F. Aveni

In Uncommon Sense, Aveni explores the common and conflicting ways that ancient and contemporary societies have searched for the literal truth about the natural world's mysteries, from dinosaur bones to the Star of Bethlehem. Aveni demonstrates that a society's approach to making sense of the natural world can serve as a working definition of its culture, so strongly does it resonate with fundamental values and assumptions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870818287
• ISBN13: 9780870818288
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"