Technics and Human Development: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. I (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780156623414)

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-Smith, New York Times). Index; photographs.


Author: Lewis Mumford
ISBN-10: 0156623412
ISBN-13: 9780156623414
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1971
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.20d