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The Axemaker's Gift: Technology's Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture

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"A detailed, original and persuasive reading of cultural and intellectual history."--Los Angeles Times. "A genuine tour de force."--San Francisco Chronicle.

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ISBN-13:	9780874778564
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/31/1997
Edition description:	1ST TRADE
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 8.99(h) x 1.05(d)
Age Range:	18 - 14 Years

About the Author

James Burke is a science historian and presenter known for his 1978 documentary series The Connections and the 1985 series The Day the Universe Changed. His other works include The Axemaker's Gift, and American Connections: The Founding Fathers Networked.

The Axemaker's Gift - James Burke and Robert Ornstein Prologue
I. Getting an Edge
1. Getting an Edge
2. Token Contribution
3. The ABC of Logic
II. Cutting Up the World
4. Faith of Power
5. Fit to Print
6. New Worlds
7. Root and Branch
8. Class Act
9. Doctor's Order
III. Picking Up the Pieces
10. Journey's End
11. Forward to the Past
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