Future Shock
- ISBN-10
- 0394425863
- ISBN-13
- 9780394425863
- Series
- Future Shock
- Category
- Social Science / General
- Pages
- 505
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1970
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Alvin Toffler
Description
Predicts the pace of environmental change during the next thirty years and the ways in which the individual must face and learn to cope with personal and social change
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