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"Robert Adams's book is a gem. The first chapter alone, with its knowing, judicious, principled, and illuminating overview of this complex subject, is worth the price of admission."--Robert K. Merton, Columbia UniversityTechnology, 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
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- Author
- Robert McCormick Adams
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400810819
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Technology, Western, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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