The Acceleration of History
by Piel, Gerard
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0394473124
- ISBN 13
- 9780394473123
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf [0-394-47312-4] 1972. (Hardcover) 369pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Top edge stained red, graphs, illustrations. A previous owner's stamp inside. "Demolishing the contemporary folklore of the laboratory, of the machine, and of economics, Gerard Piel asserts the responsibility of each citizen for the uses to which society puts the enormous forces now at its command. The values of science show the dilemmas of technology to be political issues demanding urgent, rational action". (Science, Economics, Essays, Machines, Politics, Science, Technology).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 152716
- Title
- The Acceleration of History
- Author
- Piel, Gerard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394473124
- ISBN 13
- 9780394473123
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Science, Economics, Essays, Machines, Politics, Science, Technology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science And Technology;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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