As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed.   Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind—threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends. No conversation about the dangers of technology and its unavoidable effects on society can begin without a careful reading of this book.  "A magnificent book . . . He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendered efficient, and diminished in the process.”—Harper's   “One of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth-century. In it, Jacques Ellul convincingly demonstrates that technology, which we continue to conceptualize as the servant of man, will overthrow everything that prevents the internal logic of its development, including humanity itself—unless we take necessary steps to move human society out of the environment that 'technique' is creating to meet its own needs.”—The Nation   “A description of the way in which technology has become completely autonomous and is in the process of taking over the traditional values of every society without exception, subverting and suppressing these values to produce at last a monolithic world culture in which all non-technological difference and variety are mere appearance.”—Los Angeles Free Press

The Technological Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Jacques Ellul

Sociology

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Is There a Doctor in the House?Finally, answers to all those strange questions you'd like to ask your own doctor but haven't had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. If you've ever wanted to ask a doctor . . .How do people in wheelchairs have sex?Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast?Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever?Why does asparagus make my pee smell?Why do old people grow hair on their ears?Is the old adage "beer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer. . .," really true?. . .then Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for you.Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician, and Mark Leyner, bestselling author and well-known satirist, Why Do Men Have Nipples? offers real factual and really funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.

Why Do Men Have Nipples?

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mark Leyner

Billy Goldberg

Men's Health

A Civil Action

A Civil Action [paperback] Harr, Jonathan [Jan 01, 1998]

Jonathan Harr

Rules & Procedures

Wildwood Wisdom teaches ages old survival skills, including how to live off the land, put up a tipi, make buckskin clothes, build a bed in the woods and much more. Author Ellsworth Jaeger pays tribute to the generations of wilderness men and women--Indian and European--who used their skill and ingenuity in woodcraft to survive in early America.

Wildwood Wisdom

Science & Math

Jaeger, Ellsworth

Nature & Ecology

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...four corner-posts and any intermediate posts which may be necessary, nailing the plates on top of the posts to hold the frame together (Fig. 172), afterward fitting the other posts in place, as shown in the sketch. We have not yet arrived at the part of the book where we can build as extensive houses as the one shown here. The drawing is only inserted at this place because it naturally comes with the use of the cross-cut saw. You can, however, without much trouble, build a small pole house without the veranda, and after you have learned how to build the big log houses you can turn back to this page and try a pole house like Fig. 171. Sawing on an Angle Fig. 174 shows how to saw off poles on the bias, as a woman would say, or on an angle, as a man would say. Suppose, for instance, you want to cut the poles to fit the dormer over the veranda shown in Fig. 171. Measure off the height of the middle pole, then the distance along the base from the middle pole to the corner at the eaves. Next fit the poles you are going to use closely together to cover that distance; hold them in place by nailing a plank temporarily across the bottom ends; then place another plank at the point marked for the height of the middle pole, run it down to the bottom plank, and nail it temporarily along this line. Now take hold of one end of the saw, as the fellow does in Fig. 174, and let another boy take the other end of the saw; then by working it back and. forth along the line you may saw off the protruding ends of the poles. Proceed in the same manner along the base-board. You will then have half the dormer poles all nicely tacked together and cut in the right shape so that they may be evenly fitted in place, and after they are secured there the marking planks may be knocked off. Fi...

Shelters, Shacks and Shanties

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Board, D.C.

Shelter Publications Staff

Gardening & Landscape Design

Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. In these stories the Op unravels a murder with too many clues, looks for a girl with eyes the color of shadows on polished silver, and tangles with a crooked-eared gunman called the Whosis Kid.

Continental Op

Literature & Fiction

United States

Big Sleep

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

RAYMOND CHANDLER

Mystery

The Weaker Vessel

ANTONIA FRASER

The national parks of the Pacific Southwest and Hawaii combine an unparalleled grace and nobility with qualities of otherworldliness and fantasy. This book provides a tantalizing invitation to eight parks: from the primeval Sequoia and Redwood and the legendary Yosemite to the primitive wilderness areas of Kings Canyon and Lassen Volcanic, down the California coast to the Channel Islands and across the Pacific to Haleakala, and on to the moonscape of the Hawaii volcanoes. This volume features 180 color photographs; 13 maps which include access and trail maps; facility charts for each park, providing addresses, phone numbers, hours, services for the disabled; trails charts indicating length, ascent, degree of difficulty, and where to go to get away from crowds; an Appendix identifying 75 animals and plants commonly found in the parks, with full-color photographs.

Sierra Club Guides to the National Parks of the Pacific Southwest and Hawaii (The Sierra Club guides)

Travel

Sierra, Club

The Sierra Club Guides to the National Parks of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska

The Sierra Club Guides to the National Parks of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska

Perry, John

Perry, Jane Greverus

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