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1	Operating manual for spaceship earth more books like this by R Buckminster Fuller add to wishlist Buckminster Fuller (1895a "1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his comprehensive perspective on the worlda (TM)s problems in numerous essays, which offer an illuminating ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.94! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Technological Society more books like this by Jacques Ellul add to wishlist ."..He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendered efficient, and diminished in the process."- Harper's Magazine see all copies from $5.32! new only from $8.36! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Medieval technology and social change more books like this by Lynn White add to wishlist see all copies from $3.45! new only from $12.82! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Understanding media; the extensions of man more books like this by Marshall McLuhan add to wishlist This reissue of "Understanding Media" marks the 30th anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then emerging phenomenon of mass media. Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.58! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Technics & Civilization more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist 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 $24.95! new only from $57.69! \| first editions
6	The Axemaker's Gift more books like this by James Lee Burke, Robert E Ornstein add to wishlist Historian James Burke and psychologist Robert Ornstein illustrate the spiraling impact from humankind's development of technology. Now, the authors argue, we need to learn how to shift human society back into harmony by understanding and respecting the basic wisdom of the nontechnical world. A major achievement that journeys through human culture ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.26! \| first editions
7	Being Digital more books like this by Nicholas Negroponte add to wishlist In this title, the author examines the startling implications of the digital revolution and how it is transforming the way we live. His belief is that all forms of media--text, voice, and video--are changing the fundamental way in which we view information. In the future he predicts that the real gap in society will not be economic, but between ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Pentagon of Power more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.75! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe more books like this by Elizabeth L Eisenstein add to wishlist Although the importance of the advent of printing for the Western world has long been recognized, it was Elizabeth Eisenstein, in her monumental, two-volume work, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, who provided the first full-scale treatment of the subject. This illustrated and abridged edition gives a stimulating survey of the ... see all copies from $4.22! new only from $14.46! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution more books like this by Howard Rheingold add to wishlist Rheingold, author of VIRTUAL COMMUNITY, continues his examination of life in the Cyber Age, focusing his attention in SMART MOBS on mobile technology: cell phones, two-way pagers, and personal data assistants. Rheingold looks at the ways in which these tools have altered the way people interact and augmented their ability to act as a group. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.72! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Technology & the Future more books like this by Albert H Teich (Editor) add to wishlist Technology influences society, and society influences technology - but how? The newly updated 11th edition of "Technology and the Future" helps you answer that question and others with a diverse collection of articles and essays that examine the controversial technological issues affecting society. Written by technology critics and enthusiasts, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.97! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	High Tech High Touch: Technology and Our Search for Meaning more books like this by John Naisbitt, Douglas Philips, Nana Naisbitt add to wishlist This cautionary analysis urges a wired culture to probe the complex issues surrounding rapid technological advancement, including increasing productivity demands in the workplace and potential discriminatory uses of biotechnology. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The medium is the massage more books like this by Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore add to wishlist 30 years after its publication Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage remains his most entertaining, provocative, and piquant book. With every technological and social "advance" McLuhan's proclamation that "the media work us over completely" becomes more evident and plain. In his words, Uso pervasive are they in their personal, political, ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $10.84! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects more books like this by Marshall McLuhan, Jerome Agel (Photographer), Quentin Fiore add to wishlist Millions of "global villagers" connected by the communications revolution Marshall McLuhan foresaw, have never read the most influential, prophetic, and entertaining book ever written on the subject--The Medium is the Massage (originally published in 1967). The authors have selected excerpts from McLuhan's most electrifying theories and insights. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.26! \| first editions
15 view cover	A humane economy : the social framework of the Free Market more books like this by Wilhelm Ropke add to wishlist A Humane Economy offers an understandable and compelling explanation of how economies operate. Over and over, the great Swiss economist stresses one simple point: You cannot separate economic principles from human behavior. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $18.70! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy more books like this by Stanley M Davis, Christopher Meyer add to wishlist Get ready for a whole new world--a world of blur in which traditional boundaries between product and service, capital and people, buyer and seller, and real and virtual no longer apply. Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer have a front row seat to these tectonic changes and, in this groundbreaking book, they not only define the phenomenon but show ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17	The Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousness more books like this by Peter L Berger add to wishlist see all copies from $3.99! first editions
18 view cover	The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution more books like this by Ayn Rand, Peter Schwartz (Editor) add to wishlist In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion", that lionized Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro and launched the Black Panthers and the Theater of the ... see all copies from $3.33! new only from $8.44! \| SVS
19	Good work more books like this by E F Schumacher add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.22! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present more books like this by Professor Thomas J Misa add to wishlist The image of the lone inventor transforming society from the outside has a strong hold on the public's imagination. In reality, though, technologies are products of ongoing social and cultural processes. In Leonardo to the Internet, historian Thomas J. Misa provides a sweeping comparative history of the interrelationship between technology and ... see all copies from $13.13! new only from $13.15! \| SVS
21 view cover	The Printing Press as an Agent of Change more books like this by Elizabeth L Eisenstein add to wishlist Originally published in two volumes, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change is now issued in a paperback edition containing both volumes. The work is a full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change. Professor Eisenstein begins by examining the general implications of the shift from script to ... see all copies from $58.58! new only from $58.58! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Rise of the Network Society more books like this by Manuel Castells add to wishlist This is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information. Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America and Europe, the book aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of the fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world. The global economy is now ... see all copies from $13.50! new only from $25.65! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918 more books like this by Stephen Kern add to wishlist Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. To mark the book's 20th anniversary, Kern provides a new preface about the breakthrough in interpretive approach that has made this a seminal work in interdisciplinary ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $20.12! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Technology Matters: Questions to Live with more books like this by David E Nye add to wishlist This work includes pivotal essays by a provocative Italian philosopher on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains.Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always been to provide necessities. People excel at using ... see all copies from $6.98! new only from $9.64! \| SVS
25 view cover	The testament of Yves Gundron more books like this by Emily Barton add to wishlist This debut novel takes place in what seems to be a long-ago time but is actually the 20th century, in an isolated town somewhere in the British Isles. The town's primitive customs gradually change and become modernized when an American graduate student comes to town on a research project, startles the populace with her exotic ways (not to mention ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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