The Pentagon of PowerIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs. |
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... increase resulted from cultivation of plants which captured energy di- rectly from the sun , and with the cultivation of the hard grains - wheat , barley , millet , rice - made storage and more equable distribution throughout the year ...
... increase resulted from cultivation of plants which captured energy di- rectly from the sun , and with the cultivation of the hard grains - wheat , barley , millet , rice - made storage and more equable distribution throughout the year ...
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... increase to such an extent in countries like France and England that population experts , as late as 1940 , looked forward to reaching an equilibrium in another generation , or even , in countries like France , a recession . These ...
... increase to such an extent in countries like France and England that population experts , as late as 1940 , looked forward to reaching an equilibrium in another generation , or even , in countries like France , a recession . These ...
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... increase of , 118 ; increase of collective , 246 ; intoxication with , 41 ; invisible ultimate , 275 ; jet , [ 3 ] ; nature of , 265 ; new implosion of , 238 ; Pentagon of , [ 7 ] , 164 , 166 , 192 , 275 , 303 , 374 , 431 , 432 ...
... increase of , 118 ; increase of collective , 246 ; intoxication with , 41 ; invisible ultimate , 275 ; jet , [ 3 ] ; nature of , 265 ; new implosion of , 238 ; Pentagon of , [ 7 ] , 164 , 166 , 192 , 275 , 303 , 374 , 431 , 432 ...
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RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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