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    Curiosity

    by Alberto Manguel


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    • ISBN-13: 9780300219807
    • Publisher: Yale University Press
    • Publication date: 03/28/2016
    • Edition description: Reprint
    • Pages: 392
    • Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

    Table of Contents

    Introduction 1

    1 What Is Curiosity? 11

    2 What Do We Want to Know? 31

    3 How Do We Reason? 49

    4 How Can We See What We Think? 65

    5 How Do We Question? 83

    6 What Is Language? 107

    7 Who Am I? 127

    8 What Are We Doing Here? 147

    9 Where Is Our Place? 165

    10 How Are We Different? 183

    11 What Is an Animal? 201

    12 What Are the Consequences of Our Actions? 219

    13 What Can We Possess? 235

    14 How Can We Put Things in Order? 255

    15 What Comes Next? 273

    16 Why Do Things Happen? 295

    17 What Is True? 311

    Notes 329

    Acknowledgments 363

    Index 365

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    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

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