Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology—prominent research themes in

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George Grant--philosopher, conservative, Canadian nationalist, Christian--was one of Canada's most significant thinkers, and the author of Lament for a Nation,

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