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... beginning the social accompaniments of large- scale mechanization . This removal of limits had the effect of under- mining - by now almost totally destroying the earlier forms of poly- technics , and of replacing it with a monotechnics ...
... beginning the social accompaniments of large- scale mechanization . This removal of limits had the effect of under- mining - by now almost totally destroying the earlier forms of poly- technics , and of replacing it with a monotechnics ...
Page 166
... beginning with Power itself : so that one may call it - all the more accurately because of contemporary American overtones - the Pentagon of Power . The basic ingredient was power itself , beginning in the Pyramid Age with such an ...
... beginning with Power itself : so that one may call it - all the more accurately because of contemporary American overtones - the Pentagon of Power . The basic ingredient was power itself , beginning in the Pyramid Age with such an ...
Page 174
... Beginning with a single scientific journal in 1665 , Price tells us that there were a hundred at the beginning of the nineteenth century , a thousand by the middle , 174 MASS PRODUCTION AND HUMAN AUTOMATION.
... Beginning with a single scientific journal in 1665 , Price tells us that there were a hundred at the beginning of the nineteenth century , a thousand by the middle , 174 MASS PRODUCTION AND HUMAN AUTOMATION.
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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