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Beyond engineering : how society shapes technology / Robert Pool.
LIBRA T45 .P66 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pool, Robert, 1955-
- Series:
- Sloan technology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology.
- Technological innovations.
- Nuclear energy.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 358 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-348) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195107721
- OCLC:
- 35235533
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