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Beyond Engineering

Beyond Engineering Hard cover - 1997

by Robert Pool

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Drawing on such disparate fields as history, economics, risk analysis, management science, sociology, and psychology, the author of "Eve's Rib" illuminates the complex, often fascinating interplay between machines and society, in this highly readable account of how technology and the modern world shape each other.

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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Part of the "Sloan Foundation Technology Book" series, this book explores the forces that drive technological development along the specific paths that it takes, using the nuclear power industry as a recurrent case-study examp
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  • Title Beyond Engineering
  • Author Robert Pool
  • Binding Hard Cover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date 1997-07-17
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780195107722_pod
  • ISBN 9780195107722 / 0195107721
  • Weight 1.48 lbs (0.67 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.46 x 1.18 in (24.28 x 16.41 x 3.00 cm)
  • Reading level 1300
  • Library of Congress subjects Technology, Technological innovations
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96034364
  • Dewey Decimal Code 600

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Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/1997, Page 1634
  • Library Journal, 08/01/1997, Page 124

About the author

Robert Pool writes for Discover and New Scientist and is author of Eves Rib.