Facts and Fallacies: A Book of Definitive Mistakes and Misguided Predictions
por Morgan, Chris & David Langford
- Usado
- Perto de Excelente
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Perto de Excelente/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0312279590
- ISBN 13
- 9780312279592
- Livreiro
-
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, gilt titles on spine, 176 pp, index. Edges of boards sunned, else fine. DJ covered with adhesive plastic, else fine. This is an entertaining collection of mistaken opinions of the past, generally on topics of which actual knowledge is possible. Technological opinions seemed to be more hilariously wrong when they were too conservative rather than too optimistic, but I for one am sorry that this prediction of T. Baron Russell, in his book One Hundred Years Hence (1905), never came to pass: "...however rapidly and however frequently the the trains or airships of the period may travel, the process of making up van loads of mail matter for despatch to remote centres, and redistribution there, is far too clumsy for what commerce will demand a hundred years hence. No doubt the soil of every civilised country will be permeated by vast networks of pneumatic tubes: and all letters and parcels will be thus distributed at a speed hardly credible today." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/VG. 21½ X 14 cm.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- SSFL00004
- Título
- Facts and Fallacies: A Book of Definitive Mistakes and Misguided Predictions
- Autor
- Morgan, Chris & David Langford
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Perto de Excelente
- Condição de sobrecapa
- VG
- Edição
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0312279590
- ISBN 13
- 9780312279592
- Editorial
- St. Martin's Press
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 1981
- Palavras-chave
- Folklore Forecasting Humor Humour
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Humor;
- X weight
- 32 oz
- Size
- 21½ X 14 cm
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