New York: The Viking Press, (1989). Hardcover first edition - "A ground-breaking book that changes the way we look at our world, our culture, ourselves." A book which is both provocative and entertaining as it offers a tour of the modern age from Darwin to quarks - among the topics discussed are computer art, concrete poetry, Dada experiments, word games, the British cracking of the Germans' Enigma code in WW II, and automobiles as "thin-steel sculptures." Illustrated throughout with four full-colored plates inserted. Bibliography and index. xix, 389 pp. ISBN: 0-670825050.