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Dirty little secrets of the twentieth century / (Dunnigan James F)

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Dirty little secrets of the twentieth century /
Author:	Dunnigan James F Search Author in Amazon Books
Publisher:	W. Morrow,
ISBN:	0688170684
Edition:	c1999.
Classification:	D422
Dewey:	909.82

Detailed notes

- Includes index.

- Operating Instructions -- 1. Then and Now. The View from There. Life Has Changed. The Population Explosion. Moving Every Five Years. The Shaving Revolution. The Taming of the Curse. The Real Reason We Live Longer. Where Modern Medicine Came From. The Microbes Strike Back. AIDS Before AIDS. The New Immigrants. Crime. Dressing Up, and Down. Freud Takes a Pill. Good Eating. Olympic Feats of Bureaucratic Development -- 2. Entertainment. An Avalanche of Media. Great Unknown Innovators of Cinema. Great Hits and Misses in Movie Technology. The Curse of the Close-up. The Century of Celebrity. Visible Generations. Recordings. Sex. Drugs. Rock and Roll. Shopping as Entertainment. Radio. Television. Cable TV. World Wide Web. What PCs Are Really Used For. On-line All the Time -- 3. Making a Living. What We Earned Then and Now. Inflation. Unemployment. The World's Greatest Job Machine. Down on the Farm. The Green Revolution. The Educational Advantage. Every Man a Scholar. Marketing. A New Product for Everyone. The Consumer Society. One Step, Two Step. Packaging. Women at Work -- 4. Buildings. Houses for Everyone. Cooled by Refrigeration. Mobile Living. The Automation of Housework. The Robotic Kitchen. Freedom of the Road. You'll Never Walk Alone. Miles of Aisles. Malling the Landscape -- 5. Technology. The Real Scientific Revolution. The Really Important Inventions. The Age of the Automobile. Operations Research. Where the Personal Computer Came From. BASIC, Macros, and Roll-Your-Own Software. Workstations. The DP Empire Strikes Back. The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread. The Hundred-Year-Old Answering Machines -- 6. The Military. The Twentieth-Century Military Breakthroughs. The Great Ideas That Weren't. Little-Recognized Weapons and Equipment That Changed Warfare. The Camp Followers Take Over. A Century of Infantry Rifles. Never Throw Anything Away. Death from Above. Still Walking After All These Years. Moving the Wounded. Send in the Droids. Nuclear Weapons -- 7. Politics. Democide. Nongovernment Governments. The Religious Wars of the Twentieth Century. The Terrorism Business. Storm Troopers Are Bad, but It's Been Worse -- App. Inflation Multiples.