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Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
by Tenner, Edward
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0679425632
- ISBN 13
- 9780679425632
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Grey boards, foil titles on spine, xiii, 346, [3] pp, index. Remainder mark. DJ has 1 cm tear at head of spine. From the DJ: "Edward Tenner is a connoisseur of what he calls 'revenge effects'--the unintended, ironic consequences of the mechanical, chemical, biological, and medical forms of ingenuity that have been hallmarks of the progressive, improvement-obsessed twentieth century. In seeking out these revenge effects, he ranges far and wide in our cultural landscape to discover an insistent pattern of paradox that implicates everything from black lung to bluebirds, wooden tennis rackets to Windows 95. ... [Why Things Bite Back] is written not for committed technophiles or determined technophobes...but for innocent laypeople stumbling through a Rube Goldberg world and trying to make sense of it." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . Near Fine/VG. 24 X 16½ cm.
Synopsis
Edward Tenner, former executive editor for physical science and history at Princeton University Press, holds a visiting research appointment in the Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences at Princeton University. He received the A.B. from Princeton and the Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and has held visiting research positions at Rutgers University and the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1991-92 he was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow and in 1995-96 is a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TESC00015
- Title
- Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
- Author
- Tenner, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- 3rd ptg
- ISBN 10
- 0679425632
- ISBN 13
- 9780679425632
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Technology and Society
- Bookseller catalogs
- Technical;
- X weight
- 48 oz
- Size
- 24 X 16½ cm
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