Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Tenner, Edward
ISBN 10: 0679425632 ISBN 13: 9780679425632
Published by Knopf, 1996
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VG-/VG. *AUTOGRAPHED/SIGNED* by author Edward Tenner in ink on half-title page, orange photo-illustrated jacket, dust jacket in archival plastic protector. Light shelf wear with light scuffs to page edges, price-clipped jacket flaps, autographed copy sticker on front cover, previous owner's ink note on flyleaf, tightly bound, clean text and illustrations. Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS. Seller Inventory # 331576
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In this fascinating book, historian of science Edward Tenner takes a fine-toothed comb to several realms of technological intervention and discovers a resolute pattern of "revenge effects, "paradoxical, ironic consequences of the step s we take supposedly to improve our lives. Whether proliferating technology is fated to lead us to utopia, we can be certain that it has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.
About the Author: 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.
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Title: Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the ...
Publisher: Knopf
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good-.
Dust Jacket Condition: /Very Good.
Signed: Signed
Edition: First Edition.
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Why Things Bite Back- Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (Signed)
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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0679425632
ISBN 13: 9780679425632
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Seller: Stanley Louis Remarkable Books, Saint Charles, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First. From the publisher: "In this fascinating book, historian of science Edward Tenner takes a fine-toothed comb to several realms of technological intervention and discovers a resolute pattern of "revenge effects, "paradoxical, ironic consequences of the step s we take supposedly to improve our lives. Whether proliferating technology is fated to lead us to utopia, we can be certain that it has plenty of tricks up its sleeve." This copy is fine with gray cloth spine on gray paper-covered boards and silver titles on the spine. No marks or damage at all. The unclipped DJ is also fine. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Seller Inventory # B523