Myth of the Machine : Techniques and Human Development Condition:Like New exuberant’ Financial Times‘Impossible to resist’

exuberant’ Financial Times‘Impossible to resist’ Daily Telegraph‘Twists and turns like a corkscrew of venomous snakes’ Stuart MacBride‘It has everything – intrigue

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A thriller for our times

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Myth of the Machine : Techniques and Human Development Condition:Like New exuberant’ Financial Times‘Impossible to resist’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.