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        Rational Accidents

        Rational Accidents

        Rational Accidents

        Reckoning with Catastrophic Technologies

        by John Downer

        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.
        Dark Star

        Dark Star

        Dark Star

        A New History of the Space Shuttle

        by Matthew H. Hersch

        ISBN: 9780262546720

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 26, 2023

        A captivating history of NASA's Space Transportation System—the space shuttle—chronicling the inevitable failures of a doomed design.
        A Woman’s Right to Know

        A Woman's Right to Know

        A Woman's Right to Know

        Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain

        by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn

        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

        No Heavenly Bodies

        No Heavenly Bodies

        A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure

        by Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren

        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

        An Introduction to System Safety Engineering

        by Nancy G. Leveson

        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

        Inside the Star Factory

        Inside the Star Factory

        The Creation of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Largest and Most Powerful Space Observatory

        by Chris Gunn and Christopher Wanjek

        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

        Lifelines of Our Society

        Lifelines of Our Society

        A Global History of Infrastructure

        by Dirk van Laak

        Foreword by Paul N. Edwards

        Translated by Erik Butler

        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

        Selling the American People

        Selling the American People

        Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech

        by Lee McGuigan

        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

        Milk and Honey

        Milk and Honey

        Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land

        by Tamar Novick

        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

        Forecasting Travel in Urban America

        The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World

        by Konstantinos Chatzis

        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.
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