Browse Items (36 total)

'Athenian conceptions of a future life', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1901; 1901-11-1; Athens; Cemeteries; Civilization; Forteana; Future life in art; Greece; Greek; Mythology; Quinn, Daniel; Survival After Death; To 146 B.C

'Insects and civilization', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1902; 1902-6-1; Agriculture; Beneficial insects; Biology; Civilization; Effect of insects on; Entomology; Insect pests; Insects; McCook, Henry C. (Henry Christopher); Symbolic aspects; Zoology

'The Chicago of China', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1918; 1918-10-1; China; Civilization; Commerce; Cost and standard of living; Engineering; Hankow; Hankow (China); Iron industry and trade; manufacturing; Production; Social conditions; Steel industry and trade; Weyl, Walter E. (Walter Edward)

'This simian world', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-3-1; 1920s; Behavior evolution; Biology; Civilization; Day, Clarence; Evolution; Human beings; Human evolution; Origin; Social evolution

'The mind in the making (part II)', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-10-1; 1920s; Civilization; Classical; Critiques and Comments; History; Intellectual life; Robinson, James Harvey; Social evolution; STS

'The spirit of our age', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1945; 1920; 1920-11-1; 1920s; Civilization; Critiques and Comments; Kiser, Samuel E. (Samuel Ellsworth); Popular culture; STS; United States

'Is progress a delusion?', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-11-1; Civilization; Critiques and Comments; Durant, Will; History; Philosophy; Progress; STS; World history

'Reorganizing the world', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1928; 1928-3-1; Civilization; Forecasting; Great Pyramid (Egypt); International relations; Martin, Edward Sandford; Millennium; Other

'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

'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 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

'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

'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

'Biology and human progress', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1936; 1936-1-1; Biology; Civilization; Human biology; Other; Pearl, Raymond; Social aspects; Social evolution

'Progress and catastrophe', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1936; 1936-2-1; Casson, Stanley; Civilization; Crises; Critiques and Comments; History; Progress; STS

'Machines and individuals', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1936; 1936-12-1; Civilization; Critiques and Comments; Dresser, Peter Van; Mechanization; Modern; Social aspects; Social change; STS

'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

'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

'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

'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

'The scientist as prophet', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1971; 1971-11-1; Civilization; Forecasting; Other; Philosophy; Science

'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

'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

'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

'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

'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

'Untitled', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-11-1; Astrobiology; Biology; Civilization; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication; Modern; Simon, John Ivan

'Untitled', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-11-1; Astrobiology; Biology; Civilization; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication; Modern; Sagan, Carl

'Untitled', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-11-1; Astrobiology; Biology; Civilization; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication; Modern; Nisbet, Robert A.

'Untitled', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-11-1; Astrobiology; Biology; Civilization; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication; Koch, Ed; Modern