num_pages: 352
description: Mumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language, and social organization. “It is a stimulating volume, informed both with an enormous range of knowledge and empathetic spirit” (Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York Times). Index; photographs.
language: English
title: Technics and Human Development
titlecomplete: Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1)
genres: Architecture, Technology, Politics, Philosophy, Cultural, Science, Nonfiction, Sociology, History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 285
awards: awardedAt: -63129600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Science, Philosophy and Religion
publisher: Mariner Books