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Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Fiction
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Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 9780151639748
Author : James Carroll
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 2007-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780618872015
An analysis of the Pentagon, the military, and their vast, frequently hidden influence on American life argues that the Pentagon has, since its inception, operated beyond the control of any force in government or society.
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Technology and civilization
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Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Technological civilization
ISBN : 9780156623414
Bibilography, v. 2, p. 439-469.
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0226550273
Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, Technics and Civilization was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years—and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. “The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.”—Journal of Technology and Culture
Author : Michael T. Klare
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 162779249X
All Hell Breaking Loose is an eye-opening examination of climate change from the perspective of the U.S. military. The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change—still linked, for many people, with polar bears and coral reefs. Yet of all the major institutions in American society, none take climate change as seriously as the U.S. military. Both as participants in climate-triggered conflicts abroad, and as first responders to hurricanes and other disasters on American soil, the armed services are already confronting the impacts of global warming. The military now regards climate change as one of the top threats to American national security—and is busy developing strategies to cope with it. Drawing on previously obscure reports and government documents, renowned security expert Michael Klare shows that the U.S. military sees the climate threat as imperiling the country on several fronts at once. Droughts and food shortages are stoking conflicts in ethnically divided nations, with “climate refugees” producing worldwide havoc. Pandemics and other humanitarian disasters will increasingly require extensive military involvement. The melting Arctic is creating new seaways to defend. And rising seas threaten American cities and military bases themselves. While others still debate the causes of global warming, the Pentagon is intensely focused on its effects. Its response makes it clear that where it counts, the immense impact of climate change is not in doubt.
Author : Tom Gervasi
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
"A Vintage original."--Verso t.p.
Author : Rosa Brooks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476777861
A former top Pentagon official, daughter of anti-war activists, wife of an Army Green Beret and human rights activist presents a scholarly examination of how a constant state of war is contrary to America's founding values, undermines international rules and compromises future security. --Publisher
Author : Sharon Weinberger
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0385351798
Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, DARPA has been responsible for countless inventions and technologies that have evolved from the agency's mission- forward-thinking solutions to the Pentagon's challenges. Sharon Weinberger gives us a riveting account of DARPA's successes and failures, useful innovations and wild-eyed schemes- we see how the nuclear threat sparked investment in computer networking, which led to the Internet, as well as plans to power a missile-seeking particle beam by draining the Great Lakes...how, in Vietnam, DARPA developed technology for the world's first armed drones and was also responsible for Agent Orange... how DARPA's recent success with self-driving cars is counterbalanced with its disappointing contributions to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Weinberger has spoken to dozens of former DARPA and Pentagon officials--many of whom had never been interviewed before about their work with the agency--and synthesized countless documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The result is a riveting history of a meeting point of science, technology, and politics.