Record details

• ISBN: 0871565099 (pbk.) :
• ISBN: 9780871565099 (pbk.)
• Physical Description: 446 pages ; 24 cm.
• Edition: Sierra Club Books paperback ed.
• Publisher: San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, 1992, c1991.

Content descriptions

General Note:

INCLUDES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES (p. (411)-426) AND INDEX.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-426) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. Questions we should have asked about technology -- ch. 1. Growing up with technology -- ch. 2. Fantasy and reality -- ch. 3. The importance of the negative view -- pt. 2. The inevitable direction of megatechnology -- ch. 4. Seven negative points about computers -- ch. 5. Television (1): audiovisual training for the modern world -- ch. 6. Television (2): satellites and the cloning of cultures -- ch. 7. Corporations as machines -- ch. 8. leaving the earth: space colonies, Disney, and Epcot -- ch. 9. Developing the genetic wilderness -- ch. 10. In the absence of the sacred -- pt. 3. Suppression of the native alternative -- ch. 11. What Americans don't know about Indians -- ch. 12. Indians are different from Americans -- ch. 13. The gift of democracy -- ch. 14. Lessons in stone-age economics -- pt. 4. World war against the Indians -- ch. 15. The imperative to destroy traditional Indian governments: the case of the Hopi and Navaho -- ch. 16. The imminent theft of Alaska -- ch. 17. The theft of Nevada -- ch. 18. Desecration of the sacred lands: the case of native Hawaiians -- ch. 19. World news briefs (1): the Pacific basin and Asia -- ch. 20. World news briefs (2): Canada, Europe, Africa, Latin America -- Epilogue. The new order and the new resistance.

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