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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations and Its Prospects
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The classic study of the city -- its origins, its transformations, and its prospects. Winner of the National Book Award.
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Pentagon of Power
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In this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs.
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Technics and Civilization
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Lewis Mumford
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.
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The Culture of Cities
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Lewis Mumford
This offers the first broad treatment of the city in both its historic and its contemporary aspects. "For distinction, entertainment, information, scholarship, and general human interest [this] is one of the most distinguished books" (Forum). Index; photographs.
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The condition of man
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This is the third volume in Lewis Mumford's superb "Renewal of Life" series, which also contains Technics and Civilazation, The Culture of Cities, and The Conduct of Life. The present book explores the historic development of the personality and the community. Ranging from ancient Greece to our own century, the author takes Western man over the ...
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Art and Technics
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Lewis Mumford
Featuring a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake, this classic text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture. Mumford contends that modern man's overemphasis on technics has contributed to the depersonalization and emptiness of much of twentieth-century life. ...
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The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895
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Lewis Mumford
Buried renaissance of Root, Sullivan, Roebling, W. Homer, Eakins, Ryder, others. 12 illustrations.
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The Story of Utopias
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Lewis Mumford
Utopia has long been another name for the unreal and the impossible. We have set utopia over against the world. As a matter of fact, it is our utopias that make the world tolerable to us: the cities and mansions that make people dream of are those in which they finally live. The more that men react upon their environment and make it over after a ...
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The Conduct of Life
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Lewis Mumford (Preface by)
Discusses the ultimated ethical and religious issues the confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization.
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Herman Melville
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Lewis Mumford
In this study of Herman Melville's life and thought, the author primarily relied on Melville's own writings, including his letters, and some of his notebooks. This work is singularly complete in that part of Melville which most matters: his ideas, his feelings, his urges, his vision of life. Wherever possible, the author uses Melville's own ...
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Garden cities of to-morrow
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The classic work that introduced the concept of the Garden City.
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Myth of the Machine
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America & Alfred Stieglitz : a collective portrait
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Waldo Frank
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Erewhon & Erewhon Revisited
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Samuel Butler
1927. Butler's satirical novels revealed his long interest in Darwin's theories of biological evolution, though he had spent a great deal of time criticizing him. Some now find these books prophetic in their discussion about machines becoming intelligent and the extent to which humans would become dependent on them, as well as their increasingly ...
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Sticks and Stones
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Lewis Mumford
Classic of American cultural history; architecture from medieval-inspired earliest forms to 20th century. 21 illus.
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Technics and Human Development: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. I
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Lewis Mumford
Mumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language, and social organization. " It is a stimulating volume, informed both with an enormous range of knowledge and empathetic spirit" (Eliot Fremont ...
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Roots of Contemporary American Architecture: A Series of Thirty-Seven Essays Dating from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present
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Lewis Mumford
Thirty-seven brilliant essays by Adler, Sullivan, Stein, Root, Vaux, Wright, Giedion and others. Fifty-four new photos.
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The city in history
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The transformations of man
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The myth of the machine; the pentagon of power
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The Lewis Mumford Reader
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Donald L Miller (Editor), Lewis Mumford
This volume brings together representative selections of Lewis Mumford's major writings on the central concerns of his life. Praised by Malcolm Cowley as "the last of the great humanists", Mumford (1895-1990) produced a body of cultural criticism and commentary that for its range and richness is unmatched in modern American letters. Author of ...
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Sketches from Life: The Autobiography of Lewis Mumford: The Early Years
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Lewis Mumford
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Interpretations & Forecasts 1922-1972: Studies in Literature, History, Biography, Technics, and Contemporary Society
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Lewis Mumford
A personal selection reflecting 50 years of publication by the winner of the National Medal for Literature for 1972.
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Highway and the City
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Lewis Mumford
A collection of essays by the respected social commentator on some problems faced by cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Paris, on the architecture of Saarinen, Le Corbusier, and Wright, and on city and highway planning.
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The Lewis Mumford reader
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