Triumph of the Mundane
Subtitle: The Unseen Trends that Shape Our Lives and Environment
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: November 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781559637152
Subjects: Cultural studies; Sociology, Social Studies; The Environment; Social Science; Environmental Studies; Sociology - General; Environmental Policy; Environmental Sociology; Public Policy - General; Sociology; USA; Environmental degradation; Anthropology - Cultural; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Environmental Science; Science / Environmental Science; Effect of human beings on; Human ecology; Nature
First sentence: Americans are the fastest people who have ever lived.
Description: "In Triumph of the Mundane, Hal Kane offers a unique assessment of how and why our day-to-day lives have changed, and considers the wide-ranging impacts of those changes.

Using a variety of indicators of behavior - distances between family members, the things we own, the pace of our lives - he traces recent social transformations and considers the questions that leaders and policymakers must address if they are to reinvigorate our public discourse so that it can improve the quality of our lives."--BOOK JACKET.