Paths of Fire by Robert Mcc Adams
Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. This work builds a different approach to understanding the circumstances that drive technological change, stressing its episodic, irregular nature.
Adams's mature reflection on complex, interlocking issues in the historical development and avatars of inventions, science, engineering, and the state.. Paths of Fire is the distillation of a rich life of thought, experience, and action, from the "big shoulders' of Chicago, to the sands of Uruk, to the halls of power and influence along the Mall in Washington, D.C. Journal of Anthropological Research
Robert McC. Adams is a former Provost of the University of Chicago and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution. Currently an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, he is also a Fellow (1995-96) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. His many books and articles have focused on urban and agricultural development over the past six millennia in the Near East.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691026343 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691026343 |
| Title | Paths of Fire |
| Author | Robert M Adams |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1996-10-20 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
| Prizes | Runner-up for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1997 |
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