Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Monthly Labor Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Houseboat and River-bottoms People
Author: Elmer Clarence SandmeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Agricultural Economics Literature
Author: Agricultural Economics Literature
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences
Author: Monthly Check-list of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Preventing Occupational Disease and Injury
Author: Barry S. LevyPublisher: American Public Health Association
ISBN: 9780875530437
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
From Impacts to Adaptation
Author: Publisher: Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations
ISBN: 9780662051756
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Discusses current and future risks and opportunities that climate change presents to Canada, with a focus on human and managed systems. Based on analysis of existing knowledge.
The History and Future of Technology
Author: Robert U. AyresPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030713938
Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating phenomenon. With rare exceptions, technology is developed in response to societal needs that have evolutionary roots and causes. In our genus Homo, language evolved in response to a need for our ancestors to communicate, both in the moment, and to posterity. A band of hunters had no chance in competition with predators that were larger and faster without this type of organization, which eventually gave birth to writing and music. The steam engine did not leap fully formed from the brain of James Watt. It evolved from a need to pump water out of coal mines, driven by a need to burn coal instead of firewood, in turn due to deforestation. Later, the steam engine made machines and mechanization possible. Even quite simple machines increased human productivity by a factor of hundreds, if not thousands. That was the Industrial Revolution. If we count electricity and the automobile as a second industrial revolution, and the digital computer as the beginning of a third, the world is now on the cusp of a fourth revolution led by microbiology. These industrial revolutions have benefited many in the short term, but devastated the Earths ecosystems. Can technology save the human race from the catastrophic consequences of its past success? That is the question this book will try to answer.