Axemaker's Gift: Technology's Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Axemaker's Gift Historian James Burke and psychologist Robert Ornstein illustrate the spiraling impact from humankind's development of technology. Now, the authors argue, we need to learn how to shift human society back into harmony by understanding and respecting the basic wisdom of the nontechnical world. A major achievement that journeys through human culture and issues a wake-up call for us all to take contro
Full description- Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher
- Published: 02 January 2000
- Format: Paperback 348 pages
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- Categories: Popular Culture | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Psychology | Impact Of Science & Technology On Society | History Of Science | Technology: General Issues | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780874778564 ISBN 10: 0874778565
- Sales rank: 492,211
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Full description for Axemaker's Gift
At the close of this century of creativity and discovery, humanists and scientists alike wonder: How could human beings in all their brilliance - those "axemakers" with the genius to invent, lead, inspire, heal, design - have brought the world to the brink of destruction? The answers can be found in The Axemaker's Gift, an imaginative and brilliantly informed double-edged history of human culture. James Burke, a leading expert on the interaction of technology and society, and Robert Ornstein, a pioneer in charting the evolution of consciousness, show how the interaction between innovation and the brain has continually reshaped the world and, more important, the way we think.
