Sex, Bombs And Burgers

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Nowak, Peter
Sex, bombs and burgers : how war, porn and fast food shaped technology as we know it / Peter Nowak.

ISBN 978-0-670-06966-8

1. Technological innovations—Social aspects. 2. Technology—
Social aspects. 3. Technology—History. I. Title.

T15.N69 2010 306.4’6 C2009-906563-0

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