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London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1947. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. blue cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 495 pp covers are worn on the edges spine sunned and slightly stained pages are dampstained owner's name written on the front endpaper
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81116
- Title
- Technics and Civilization
- Author
- Mumford, Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Science, Social Sciences, Technology
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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