Forces of Production : A Social History of Industrial Automation

David F. Noble
Paperback - $86.95

Focusing on the postwar automation of the American metal-working industry--the heart of the modern industrial economy--this is a provocative study of how automation has assumed a critical role in America. David Noble argues that industrial automation ...

Technology Matters : Questions to Live with

David E. Nye
Paperback - $24.95

Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always been to provide necessities. People excel at using old tools to solve new probl ...

All the Modern Conveniences : American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890

Maureen Ogle
Paperback - $54.95

As any American who has traveled abroad knows, the American home contains more, and more elaborate, plumbing than any other in the world. Indeed, Americans are renowned for their obsession with cleanliness. Although plumbing has occupied a central po ...

The Dynamics of Technology for Social Change : Understanding the Factors That Influence Results

Jonathan Peizer
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The Dynamics of Technology for Social Change : Understanding the Factors That Influence Results

Jonathan Peizer
Hardcover - $62.95

Normal Accidents : Living with High Risk Technologies

Charles Perrow
Paperback - $54.95

"Normal Accidents" analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitab ...

The Pencil : A History of Design and Circumstance

Henry Petroski
Paperback - $32.95

Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology to ...

Beyond Engineering

Robert Pool
Hardcover - $128.95

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 ...

Beyond Engineering : How Society Shapes Technology

Robert Pool
Paperback - $54.95

Drawing on such disparate fields as history, economics, risk analysis, management science, sociology, and psychology, science writer Robert Pool examines how society shapes technology, illuminating the complex, often fascinating interplay between mac ...

Smart Mobs : The Next Social Revolution

Howard Rheingold
Paperback - $27.95

From Tokyo to Helsinki, Manhattan to Manila, Rheingold takes readers on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift--a shift he predicts will be as dramatic as the widespread adoption of the PC in the 1980s and the Inte ...