Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century (Record no. 294074)
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fixed length control field | 01661nam a2200157Ia 4500 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 9780553292152 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 303.4 TOF-P |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | Alvin Toffler |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Bantam Books |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1990 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | xxii, 611 pages ; 18 cm |
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
Formatted contents note | 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. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | 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. |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Social history -- 1945- Economic history -- 1945- Power (Social sciences) |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Koha item type | Book |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Processing Center | 01/09/2015 | 303.4 TOF-P | DCB682 | 01/09/2015 | 19/07/2019 | Book | |||||
Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Processing Center | 14/06/2018 | 303.4 TOF-P | DCB824 | 14/06/2018 | 14/06/2018 | Book |