Browse Items (36 total)
- Tags: Civilization
The numbing of the American mind
'The numbing of the American mind', Harpers
Tags: 2000s; 2001; 2002; 2002-4-1; 21st century; Civilization; Military and Weapons; Other; Popular culture; Postmodernism; September 11 Terrorist Attacks; United States; Zengotita, Thomas De
Hindsight into the future
'Hindsight into the future', Harpers
Tags: 2000; 2000-4-1; 2000s; American; Civilization; College students� writings; Forecasting; Henriksson, Anders; History; Humor; Other; Western
The gospel according to Prum
'The gospel according to Prum', Harpers
Tags: 1990s; 1995; 1995-1-1; American influences; Anthropology; Bourne, Will; Cargo cults; Civilization; John Prum Movement (Vanuatu); Social life and customs; Social sciences; Tanna (Vanuatuan people); vanuatu
Untitled
'Untitled', Harpers
Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-11-1; Aksenov, Vasili�i Pavlovich; Astrobiology; Biology; Civilization; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication; Modern
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'Untitled', Harpers
Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-11-1; Astrobiology; Benford, Gregory; Biology; Civilization; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication; Modern
Untitled
'Untitled', Harpers
Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-11-1; Astrobiology; Biology; Burroughs, William S.; Civilization; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication; Modern
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'Untitled', Harpers
Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-11-1; Astrobiology; Biology; Civilization; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication; Koch, Ed; Modern
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'Untitled', Harpers
Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-11-1; Astrobiology; Biology; Civilization; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication; Modern; Nisbet, Robert A.
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'Untitled', Harpers
Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-11-1; Astrobiology; Biology; Civilization; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication; Modern; Sagan, Carl
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'Untitled', Harpers
Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-11-1; Astrobiology; Biology; Civilization; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication; Modern; Simon, John Ivan
Escape from modernism
'Escape from modernism', Harpers
Tags: 1970-; 1980s; 1984; 1984-11-1; Civilization; Critiques and Comments; History; Materialism; Science; Science and civilization; Social aspects; Social evolution; STS; Technology; Technology and civilization; Turner, Frederick W.; United States
The art of moving pictures
'The art of moving pictures', Harpers
Tags: 1970-; 1980s; 1981; 1981-10-1; Appreciation; Art and Fiction; Bettelheim, Bruno; Civilization; Motion pictures; Myth in motion pictures; Other; Science fiction; Star wars (Motion picture); United States
The rage against the future
'The rage against the future', Harpers
Tags: 1970-; 1970s; 1979; 1979-11-1; American; Children; Civilization; Conflict of generations; Forecasting; Future in popular culture; Lapham, Lewis H.; National characteristics; Other; United States
Political technology
'Political technology', Harpers
Tags: 1970s; 1978; 1978-3-1; American; Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph); Civilization; Federal government; History; Institutions and Funding; National characteristics; STS; Technology and civilization; United States
Planetary vistas
'Planetary vistas', Harpers
Tags: 1970s; 1971; 1971-12-1; Civilization; Critiques and Comments; History; Philosophy; Science; Social evolution; STS; Technology and civilization; Thompson, William Irwin
The scientist as prophet
'The scientist as prophet', Harpers
Tags: 1970s; 1971; 1971-11-1; Civilization; Forecasting; Other; Philosophy; Science
Lewis Mumford
'Lewis Mumford', Harpers
Tags: 1945-; 1950s; 1952; 1952-6-1; Architecture; Architecture and philosophy; Brooks, Van Wyck; Civilization; Engineering; Humanism; Lewis Mumford; Philosophy; Social sciences; Technology and civilization; United States
Lessons in living from the stone age
'Lessons in living from the stone age', Harpers
Tags: 1930s; 1939; 1939-7-1; Civilization; Eskimos; Medicine; Northwest Territories; Nutrition; Social life and customs; Stefansson, Vilhjalmur; Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The age of schizophrenia
'The age of schizophrenia', Harpers
Tags: 1930s; 1937; 1937-12-1; Barber, Leslie C.; Civilization; Medicine; Personality and culture; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Social psychology; Western
A biologist looks at England
'A biologist looks at England', Harpers
Tags: 1930s; 1937; 1937-8-1; Biology; Civilization; Ecology; England; English; Haldane, J. B. S. (John Burdon Sanderson); National characteristics; Zoology
Machines and individuals
'Machines and individuals', Harpers
Tags: 1930s; 1936; 1936-12-1; Civilization; Critiques and Comments; Dresser, Peter Van; Mechanization; Modern; Social aspects; Social change; STS
Progress and catastrophe
'Progress and catastrophe', Harpers
Tags: 1930s; 1936; 1936-2-1; Casson, Stanley; Civilization; Crises; Critiques and Comments; History; Progress; STS
Biology and human progress
'Biology and human progress', Harpers
Tags: 1930s; 1936; 1936-1-1; Biology; Civilization; Human biology; Other; Pearl, Raymond; Social aspects; Social evolution
Flight across Africa
'Flight across Africa', Harpers
Tags: 1930s; 1934; 1934-6-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Africa; Air travel; Civilization; Description and travel; Engineering; Race relations; Samuel, Maurice
Sold out to the future
'Sold out to the future', Harpers
Tags: 1930s; 1932; 1932-7-1; Civilization; Economic policy; Economics; Helton, Roy Addison; Social sciences; Time perspective; To 1933; United States
The future of the great city
'The future of the great city', Harpers
Tags: 1920s; 1929; 1929-12-1; Architecture; Chase, Stuart; City and town life; City planning; Civilization; Engineering; Forecasting; Infrastructure (Economics); New York; New York (N.Y.); New York (State); United States
The animal ideal in America
'The animal ideal in America', Harpers
Tags: 1920s; 1929; 1929-8-1; Animal nature; Behaviorism (Psychology); Biology; Civilization; Communism; Cost and standard of living; Human beings; Keyserling, Hermann, Graf von; Materialism; Moral conditions; Philosophy; Soviet Union; United States; Zoology
The future of man
'The future of man', Harpers
Tags: 1920s; 1928; 1928-9-1; Civilization; Forecasting; Forecasting in literature; Joad, C. E. M. (Cyril Edwin Mitchinson); Social prediction; Social sciences
Reorganizing the world
'Reorganizing the world', Harpers
Tags: 1920s; 1928; 1928-3-1; Civilization; Forecasting; Great Pyramid (Egypt); International relations; Martin, Edward Sandford; Millennium; Other
Is progress a delusion?
'Is progress a delusion?', Harpers
Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-11-1; Civilization; Critiques and Comments; Durant, Will; History; Philosophy; Progress; STS; World history