The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development |
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development Volume 208 of HARVEST BOOKS Volume 1 of The Myth of the Machine, Lewis Mumford The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development, Lewis Mumford |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 4, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0151639736, 9780151639731 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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