Technics and Civilization
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This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the machine and to trace its social results. "An extraordinarily wide-ranging, sensitive, and provocative book about a subject upon which philosophers have so far shed but little light" (Journal of Philosophy). Index; illustrations.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780156882545 |
Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Imprint: | Mariner Books |
Pub date: | 15 Nov 1963 |
Edition: | New Edition |
DEWEY: | 303.483 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 495 |
Weight: | 566g |
Height: | 203mm |
Width: | 139mm |
Spine width: | 31mm |