Walden Two

Walden Two
ISBN-10
1603840362
ISBN-13
9781603840361
Series
Walden Two
Category
Psychology
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2005-07-15
Publisher
Hackett Publishing
Author
B. F. Skinner

Description

A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.

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