📚 Technology and Civilization

Books with technology and civilization on their catalogue record, first published between 1910 and 2022, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject technology and civilization in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,978 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	ההיסטוריה של המחר	Yuval Noah Harari	2015	39
	21 Lessons for the 21st Century	Yuval Noah Harari	2018	33
	The Gutenberg Galaxy	Marshall McLuhan	1962	27
	Der Mensch und die Technik	Oswald Spengler	1931	22
	Marvels of Modern Science	Paul Severing	1910	20
	Future (DK Eyewitness Books)	Michael Tambini	1995	18
	Summa technologiae	Stanisław Lem	1964	17
	Operating manual for spaceship earth	R. Buckminster Fuller	1969	16
	Studies in ancient technology	R. J. Forbes	1955	15
	Technik und Wissenschaft als „Ideologie“	Jürgen Habermas	1968	14
	Previews & premises	Alvin Toffler	1983	13
	The myth of the machine	Lewis Mumford	1967	12
	The medium is the massage	Marshall McLuhan	1967	12
	Technics and civilization	Lewis Mumford	1934	11
	Medieval technology and social change	Lynn Townsend White	1962	11
	A social history of engineering	W. H. G. Armytage	1961	10
	Civilization at the crossroads	Radovan Richta	1967	10
	The printing press as an agent of change	Elizabeth L. Eisenstein	1979	10
	Le systeme des objects	Jean Baudrillard	1968	9
	Remaking Society	Murray Bookchin	1989	9
	No Filter	Sarah Frier	2020	9
	The illusion of technique	William Barrett	1978	8
	Rise of the machines	Thomas Rid	2016	8
	Medieval technology and social change	Lynn White Jr	1962	7
	Hombres y engranajes	Ernesto Sabato	1970	7
	Today and Tomorrow and ... [32 essays]	Isaac Asimov	1973	7
	Energy in world history	Vaclav Smil	1994	7
	The shock of the old	David Edgerton	2006	7
	How the World Really Works	Vaclav Smil	2022	7
	Irrigation civilizations	Julian Haynes Steward	1955	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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