- industrial management, environmental aspects, recycling, Long Now Manual for Civilization
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage.
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Contemporary, spare, earnest and warm.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Alternatives, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780224087865
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First sentence
“In the spring of 1912, one of the largest moving objects ever created by human beings left Southampton, England, and began gliding toward New York.”
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