Sex, Bombs and Burgers [electronic resource] : How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology as We...
Sex, Bombs and Burgers [electronic resource] : How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology as We Know It.
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Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2010.
Date
2010.
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English
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1 online resource (372 p.)
Contents
Part title; Title page; Contents; Introduction: A Shameful Trinity; 1 Weapons of Mass Consumption; 2 Better Eating Through Chemistry; 3 Arming the Amateurs; 4 A Game of War; 5 Food From the Heavens; 6 The Naked Eye Goes Electronic; 7 The Internet: Military Made, Porn Perfected; 8 Seeds of Conflict;...
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Publisher
Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2010.
Date Published
2010.
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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.
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From the unexpected origins of mobile phones, microwave ovens and plastic packaging to the links between Barbie and US missile systems and why Niue, Polynesia is the phone-sex capital of the world, this is a fascinating examination of how much of modern life can be directly traced to one of three questionable aspects of human activity - war, porn,...
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Sex, Bombs and Burgers [electronic resource] : How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology as We Know It.
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74VvxErZ3j3g
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvxErZ3j3g
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ISBN
9781741768152
DDC
360
MMS ID
991016788259702626