Meganet Tapa dura - 1997

Westview Press, 1997-08. Hardcover. New. BRAND NEW COPY, Perfect Shape

Good. First Edition with complete number line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Inscribed and dated by the author on the first fly page. The inscription reads: "August 1997 To (I can't read the first name) Meyers with warm regards. Wilson Drizard". The pages are crisp, clean and with the exception of the inscription, free of writing and other marks. The page edges have lite shelf dust along the top edge but are otherwise clean with sharp corners. The binding is in good, strong condition. The black fabric cover has slight edge wear but is otherwise clean with sharp corners. The dust jacket is present with lite shelf/edge wear but is otherwise clean. Overall, a very well preserved collectible copy with mild wear. We ship six days a week with tracking provided.

Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. DJ has sticker residue at bottom of spine and front. Some library markings.. x, 262 p. Meganet Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. So Paulo, Brazil's largest city, has more mobile phones than does Paris. The largest phone system in Kampuchea is cellular. In the next twenty years, within one generation, everyone on earth will be able to place a phone call to anyone else anywhere. This Meganet is a patchwork of networks, big and small, local and global, primitive and high-tech, that fit together because they share compatible technologies. Wilson Dizards Meganet is a report on the progress and setbacks in expanding Meganet resources to everyone on earth. He examines not only the advantages, from toll-free numbers and credit cards, but the downsides, from the potential invasions of privacy to the question of who will and who should control Meganet. Dizard describes the likely… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.