The Value of Convenience

The Value of ConvenienceIn this volume, Tierney identifies convenience as the value of central importance to the development of modern technical culture. While revealing modern attitudes toward technology, the human body, mortality, and necessity, Tierney focuses on the cultural value of convenience and on modern attitudes which emphasize consumption rather than production of technology.

traveled extensively throughout Egypt and Sudan between 1817 and 1822

From 1973 through 1979

but poorly understood

growing environment and grain quality can be obtained

Lluis Pasqual

Explores the concept of the Limit (barzakh)

Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam

and the omissions that pock all of our careers

the interpretation of communicative messages and the effects of communication on both speaker and listener

Information Professional

The incentive structures present within public institutions mean that government action may well fail to improve economic welfare and frequently has results different from those intended

interacts with the people and traditions of Khan al-Khalili