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Powershift :
(Toffler, Alvin) |
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Bibliographical information (record 326000) |
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Powershift : |
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knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century / |
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Toffler, Alvin
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Bantam books,
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ISBN: |
0553292153
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Edition: |
1991.
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Classification: |
HN17.5 |
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303.4 |
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-549) and index.
- The powershift era -- Muscle, money, and mind -- Beyond the age of glitz -- Force : the Yakuza component -- Wealth : Morgan, Milken--and after -- Knowledge : a wealth of symbols -- Material-ismo! -- The ultimate substitute -- The checkout battle -- Extra-intelligence -- Net power -- The widening war -- The executive thought police -- Total information war -- The cubbyhole crash -- The flex-firm -- Tribal chiefs and corporate commissars -- The autonomous employee -- The power-mosaic -- Coda : the new system for wealth creation -- The decisive decades -- The invisible party -- Info-tactics --Meta-tactics -- A market for spies -- The info-agenda -- The image makers -- Subversive media -- The "screenie" generation -- Coda : yearnings for a new dark age -- The global "K-factor" -- The fast and the slow -- Socialism's collision with the future -- The power of balance -- Triads : Tokyo, Berlin, Washington -- The global gladiators -- Coda : freedom, order, and chance.
- Discusses power at the edge of the 21st century. Deals with violence, wealth and knowledge and the roles they play in our lives; and discusses new paths to power opened by a world of upheaval.
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7445700600
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Yeniboğaziçi Grand LibraryN/A (HN17.5 .T6417 1991)
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General Collection |
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