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Praise for Sleepers, Wake! [A]n extremely interesting and provocative book...The author is justified in claiming that its central message is relevant to all industrial societies and it deserves to be widely read in all of them...What makes this book a much better attempt than most is the breadth of the approach, the sense of history, and the sense of humor...it is strong on the political implications of the information revolution and has admirable things to say on the dangers of technological disfranchisement and technological determinism. The critique of the role of the automobile in urban societies has seldom been put better...[A] book which should not be missed. --Chris Freeman, University of Sussex, Prometheus: critical studies in innovation

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Barry Jones was a Labor member of the Victorian and Commonwealth parliaments, led the campaign to abolish the death penalty, and became Australia's longest-serving minister for science from 1983 to 1990. His books include Sleepers, Wake!, A Thinking Reed, Dictionary of World Biography, The Shock of Recognition, and, most recently, What is to be Done: political engagement and saving the planet. He received a Companion of the Order of Australia, Australia's highest award, in 2014, and, at the age of 89, is a 'living national treasure'.

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