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Rational Accidents
Reckoning with Catastrophic Technologies
ISBN: 9780262546997
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 16, 2024
An unflinching look at the unique challenges posed by complex technologies we cannot afford to let fail—and why the remarkable achievements of civil aviation can help us understand those challenges.
A Woman's Right to Know
Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780262544399
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 12, 2023
The history of pregnancy testing, and how it transformed from an esoteric laboratory tool to a commonplace of everyday life.
No Heavenly Bodies
A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780262546904
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
The compelling and little-known history of satellite communications that reveals the Soviet and Eastern European roles in the development of its infrastructure.
An Introduction to System Safety Engineering
An Introduction to System Safety Engineering
ISBN: 9780262546881
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 14, 2023
A comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the foundations of classical safety engineering, with an emphasis on preparing for future challenges.
Inside the Star Factory
The Creation of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Largest and Most Powerful Space Observatory
ISBN: 9780262047906
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 17, 2023
A fascinating, ground-level backstage pass to the creation, launch, and reach of the James Webb Space Telescope.
Lifelines of Our Society
A Global History of Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780262546386
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.
Selling the American People
Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech
ISBN: 9780262545440
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 18, 2023
How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet.
Milk and Honey
Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land
ISBN: 9780262039079
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 11, 2023
An innovative historical analysis of the intersection of religion and technology in making the modern state, focusing on bodily production and reproduction across the human-animal divide.
Forecasting Travel in Urban America
Forecasting Travel in Urban America
The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World
ISBN: 9780262048101
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 11, 2023
A history of urban travel demand modeling (UTDM) and its enormous influence on American life from the 1920s to the present.
Rational Accidents
Reckoning with Catastrophic Technologies
ISBN: 9780262546997
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 16, 2024
An unflinching look at the unique challenges posed by complex technologies we cannot afford to let fail—and why the remarkable achievements of civil aviation can help us understand those challenges.
A Woman's Right to Know
Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780262544399
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 12, 2023
The history of pregnancy testing, and how it transformed from an esoteric laboratory tool to a commonplace of everyday life.
No Heavenly Bodies
A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780262546904
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
The compelling and little-known history of satellite communications that reveals the Soviet and Eastern European roles in the development of its infrastructure.
An Introduction to System Safety Engineering
An Introduction to System Safety Engineering
ISBN: 9780262546881
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 14, 2023
A comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the foundations of classical safety engineering, with an emphasis on preparing for future challenges.
Inside the Star Factory
The Creation of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Largest and Most Powerful Space Observatory
ISBN: 9780262047906
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 17, 2023
A fascinating, ground-level backstage pass to the creation, launch, and reach of the James Webb Space Telescope.
Lifelines of Our Society
A Global History of Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780262546386
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.
Selling the American People
Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech
ISBN: 9780262545440
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 18, 2023
How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet.
Milk and Honey
Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land
ISBN: 9780262039079
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 11, 2023
An innovative historical analysis of the intersection of religion and technology in making the modern state, focusing on bodily production and reproduction across the human-animal divide.
Forecasting Travel in Urban America
Forecasting Travel in Urban America
The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World
ISBN: 9780262048101
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 11, 2023
A history of urban travel demand modeling (UTDM) and its enormous influence on American life from the 1920s to the present.