Adams Robert Mcc (110 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 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. This work builds a different approach to understanding the circumstances that drive technological change, stressing its episodic, irregular nature.…

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Condition: 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. …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 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. This work builds a different approach to understanding the circumstances that drive technological change, stressing its episodic, irregular nature.…

paperback. Condition: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

Condition: 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. …

paperback. Condition: Good.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 79, pp. 265-279, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, last page in facsimile, else VG.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; boards bowed; otherw ise in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Dust jacket shows ligh t scuffing and shelf wear.

Paperback. Sold as is. Binding cracked between page 98/99; scuffed and creased wrappers; previous owner's name. 191 pp.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 110, No 2, pp. 105-110 4to, Extracted from orig vol, thus begins with title page, trimmed & stapled pamphlet, else VG.

200 pages. Large paperback: H 27.75cm x L 22.75cm. Red and black glossy paper covers, slender light crease near center fore-edge margin of front cover. Some foxing to top edge; past owner's ink signature and phone number at top of front free endpaper; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. With color plates, Foreword by Genrikh P. Popov, Preface by Robert McC. Adams, Acknowledgements by James T. Demetrion, Introduction by E.V. Basner and A.P. Gusarova, essay "Between East and West: Russian Art of the Early Twentieth Century" by John E. Bowlt, and Select Bibliography. Pages 43-194 comprised of "Catalog of the Exhibition" by E.V. Basner, A.P. Gusarova, S.M. Ivanitskii, V.P. Kniazeva, G.K. Krechina, V.F. Kruglov, and O.N. Shikhireva. Published as the accompanying catalog for an exhibition held at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., from July 12 to September 25, 1988; exhibition organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden with the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and the State Russian Museum, Leningrad. Please note that the ISBN for the hardcover and this paperback edition is the same. ISBN 0874744954.…

Adams, Robert McC., 1926-. Paths of fire: an anthropologist's inquiry into Western technology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, 1st printing number line, xvi, 332pp., good dust-jacket, a few small tears, very good black cloth. 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 innovation that mark the path of technology have gradually accelerated and 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's 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. Adams concludes with an argument for active government support of science and technology research that should be read by anyone interested in America's ability to compete globally. - CONTENTS: Paths of fire: the idea of technological change -- The useful arts in western antiquity -- Technology and the new European society -- England as the workshop of the world -- Atlantic crossing: the American system emerges -- The United States succeeds to industrial leadership -- The competitive global system -- New paths: technological change in a borderless world. 9780691026343 ISBN 0691026343. …

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. Stamped on front endpage. (society, urban, evolution).

Condition: 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. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ix, 191 pp plust publsiher's ad.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1966. Anthropological Theory, Archaeology, Middle East, Mesoamerica. Aldine Press, 191p., very good cloth and good dust jacket. 10/24 (+1 at home).

1966. Anthropological Theory, Archaeology, Middle East, Mesoamerica. Aldine Press, 191p., good cloth and good dust jacket.

paperback. Condition: Good. Dinged top corner. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.

Hardback. Reprint edition. Good to Very Good condition in a Good to Very Good condition dustjacket. Dust spotting to edges of book and dustjacket, light musty odor, Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, otherwise a Tight, sound, unmarked copy.

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

Condition: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. book has light waer to ends of spine and corners, mild toning to parts of cover, light bump/crease to top of spine, otherwise in solid clean shape.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 332 pp.