Prairie Dogs : : Communication and Community in an Animal Society / / C. N. Slobodchikoff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Slobodchikoff, C. N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Repetitive Consumption --; 2. The Annual Model Change --; 3. Hard Times --; 4. Radio, Radio --; 5. The War and Postwar Progress --; 6. The Fifties and Sixties --; 7. Chips --; 8. Weaponizing Planned Obsolescence --; 9. Cell Phones and E-Waste --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674043756; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674043756
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: C. N. Slobodchikoff.

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