WHY THINGS BITE BACK: Technology and ... - Edward Tenner (SIGNED 1996 Hardcover)

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Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9780679425632
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679425632
ISBN-13
9780679425632
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1148189

Product Key Features

Book Title
Why Things Bite Back : Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Social Aspects, Ecology
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Nature, Technology & Engineering, Science
Author
Edward Tenner
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
25.5 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
95-038036
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
303.48/3
Synopsis
In this fascinating book, historian of science Edward Tenner takes a fine-toothed comb to several realms of technological intervention and discovers a resolute pattern of "revenge effects, "paradoxical, ironic consequences of the step s we take supposedly to improve our lives. Whether proliferating technology is fated to lead us to utopia, we can be certain that it has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.
LC Classification Number
T14.5.T459 1996

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