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1	The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations and Its Prospects more books like this by Lewis Mumford The classic study of the city -- its origins, its transformations, and its prospects. Winner of the National Book Award. see all copies from $8.10! new only from $15.40! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Pentagon of Power more books like this by Lewis Mumford 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.82! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Technics and Civilization more books like this by 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. see all copies from $5.97! new only from $62.96! \| first editions
4	The Culture of Cities more books like this by 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. see all copies from $9.00! new only from $108.65! \| first editions
5	The condition of man more books like this by Lewis Mumford 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 ... see all copies from $2.80! new only from $21.17! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Art and Technics more books like this by 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. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| first editions
7	The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895 more books like this by Lewis Mumford Buried renaissance of Root, Sullivan, Roebling, W. Homer, Eakins, Ryder, others. 12 illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.70! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Story of Utopias more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.75! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Conduct of Life more books like this by 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. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $16.46! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Herman Melville more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
11	Garden cities of to-morrow more books like this by Ebenezer Howard The classic work that introduced the concept of the Garden City. see all copies from $7.95! new only from $16.20! \| SVS
12	Myth of the Machine more books like this by Lewis Mumford see all copies from $2.51! first editions
13	America & Alfred Stieglitz : a collective portrait more books like this by Waldo Frank see all copies from $4.02! first editions
14	Erewhon & Erewhon Revisited more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $2.00! first editions
15	Sticks and Stones more books like this by Lewis Mumford Classic of American cultural history; architecture from medieval-inspired earliest forms to 20th century. 21 illus. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16	Technics and Human Development: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. I more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $6.97! new only from $13.87! \| first editions
17	Roots of Contemporary American Architecture: A Series of Thirty-Seven Essays Dating from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present more books like this by Lewis Mumford Thirty-seven brilliant essays by Adler, Sullivan, Stein, Root, Vaux, Wright, Giedion and others. Fifty-four new photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.50! \| first editions
18	The city in history more books like this by Lewis Mumford see all copies from $8.19! first editions
19	The transformations of man more books like this by Lewis Mumford see all copies from $4.75! new only from $48.04! \| first editions
20	The myth of the machine; the pentagon of power more books like this by Lewis Mumford see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.88! \| first editions
21	The Lewis Mumford Reader more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $5.00! first editions
22	Sketches from Life: The Autobiography of Lewis Mumford: The Early Years more books like this by Lewis Mumford see all copies from $1.99! new only from $80.93! \| first editions
23	Interpretations & Forecasts 1922-1972: Studies in Literature, History, Biography, Technics, and Contemporary Society more books like this by Lewis Mumford A personal selection reflecting 50 years of publication by the winner of the National Medal for Literature for 1972. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24	Highway and the City more books like this by 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. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
25	The Lewis Mumford reader more books like this by Lewis Mumford see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.85! \| first editions

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