Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation
by Mary Catherine Bateson
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394474872
- ISBN 13
- 9780394474878
- Seller
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NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. In 1968, a conference was held to explore the ultimate question- Are the problems created by man's pursuit of his conscious purposes- problems that now threaten to destroy both the web of meaning in human life and the ecological web of this planet- actually within the competence of man to solve? 324 pages plus index. No markings, covers lightly splayed. Record # 380313
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- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 380313
- Title
- Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation
- Author
- Mary Catherine Bateson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0394474872
- ISBN 13
- 9780394474878
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- This edition first published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Social Sciences, Psychology, , .
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