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Entropy : a new world view / by Jeremy Rifkin with Ted Howard ; afterword by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen.

Title
Entropy : a new world view / by Jeremy Rifkin with Ted Howard ; afterword by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen.
Author
Rifkin, Jeremy
Publication
New York : Viking Press, 1980.

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Additional Authors
  • Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
  • Howard, Ted, 1950-
  • Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas
Description
xi, 305 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Human ecology > Philosophy
  • Entropy
  • Civilization > Philosophy
  • Philosophy
  • Quality of life
  • Quality of Life
  • Écologie humaine > Philosophie
  • Entropie
  • Civilisation > Philosophie
  • Philosophie
  • Qualité de la vie
  • entropy
  • philosophy
  • quality of life
Genre/Form
Association copies (Provenance)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-300) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
P.1 World views -- P.2 The entropy law -- P.3 Entropy : a new historical frame -- P.4 Nonrenewable energy and the approaching entropy watershed -- P.5 Entropy and the industrial age -- P.6 Entropy : a new world view.
ISBN
  • 0670297178
  • 9780670297177
LCCN
80014869
OCLC
  • 6251858
  • SCSB-9957251
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library