Isbn: 9780691026343 - paths of fire: an anthropologist's inquiry into western technology (24 risultati)

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Condizione: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condizione: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

1996. Anthropological Theory. Princeton University, 332 p., fine cloth and dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Cloth.; Octavo.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Like New. First Edition. Like new hard cover edition with like new dust jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Clean. Tight binding. No markings. 332 pages.

Condizione: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Printing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Very good hardcover with dust jacket, from a private home collection. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:0691026343. …

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. First Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Black paper over boards. Title page not dated; copyright page dated 1996. 332 pages. Very good condition. DJ is red and glossy with black and white lettering. Covers are crisp and clean; spine has silver lettering. Binding is stiff; pages are bright and clean. Includes a small note with a Smithsonian Institution heading from the Office of the Secretary Emeritus. The typed note is signed by the author, Robert Adams, and reads: With the compliments of the author, and with warm greetings to old friends and colleagues at and "around" the Smithsonian, Bob Adams [signature written in pen]. …

Condizione: Very Good. 1996. hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW sunned to spine. Remains a very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine.

Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. A sweeping history of technological transformation from ancient times until now. Stresses the episodic nature of innovation that has accelerated over time until today, when technical innovation is a constant feature of life. xvi+332 pages,Notes, Bibliography, index. Out of Print. …

Condizione: Very Good. 1996. hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW sunned to spine. Remains a very good copy. . . . .

Hardback. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 332 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xvi,332 pp. "Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here, Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, builds a new approach to understanding the circumstances that drive technological change, stressing its episodic, irregular nature. The result is nothing less than a sweeping history of technological transformation from ancient times until now. Rare in antiquity, the bursts of innovations that mark the advance of technology have gradually accelerated and now have become an almost continuous feature of our culture. Repeatedly shifting in direction, this path has been shaped by a host of interacting social, cultural, and scientific forces rather than any deterministic logic. Thus future technological developments, Adams maintains, are predictable only over the very short term. Adams' account highlights Britain and the United States from early modern times onward. Locating the roots of the Industrial Revolution in British economic and social institutions, he goes on to consider the new forms of enterprise in which it was embodied and its loss of momentum in the later nineteenth century. He then turns to the early United States, whose path toward industrialization initially involved considerable "technology transfer" from Britain. Propelled by the advent of mass production, world industrial leadership passed to the United States around the end of the nineteenth Minor rubbing. Small bump to top page-edge. VG., dustwrapper.…