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By: Eugene S. Ferguson
ISBN: 9780262560788
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1994
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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This essay demonstrates that good engineering is as much a matter of intuition and nonverbal thinking as of equations and computation. It argues that a system of engineering education that ignores nonverbal thinking will produce engineers who are dangerously ignorant of the many ways in which the real world differs from the mathematical models constructed in academic minds.
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By: Matthew Wisnioski
ISBN: 9780262529792
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.
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By: Matthew Wisnioski
ISBN: 9780262550734
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"A cultural history that reveals how the relentless pursuit of innovation has transformed our society, our institutions, and our inner selves"--
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By: Melanie Feinberg
ISBN: 9780262544405
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"An engaging look at how we think about data in our everyday lives, from shopping for an appliance to stepping on a scale to cooking rice in another country"--
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By: Jessica M. Smith
ISBN: 9780262542166
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"First in-depth analysis of engineers working in resource extraction, focusing particularly on those who viewed social responsibility as fundamental to their profession"--
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By: Christopher Ali
ISBN: 9780262543064
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"This study of the political economy of rural broadband combines critical policy analysis with stories of rural Americans and offers solutions for solving the rural-urban digital divide"--
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By: Donna J. Drucker
ISBN: 9780262544696
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"History and analysis of the principal types of fertility technologies from the 1860s to the present"--
(Hardback)
By: Ross Mason
ISBN: 9781682229934
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Konstantinos Chatzis
ISBN: 9780262048101
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: David P. Billington
ISBN: 9780262044301
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"Radical Engineering presents the history and engineering principles of key 20th-century US-based innovations"--
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By: Rachael Pells
ISBN: 9781847943408
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 23rd June 2022
Publisher: Cornerstone
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By: Silvia Casini
ISBN: 9780262045292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"This book provides an overview of how we obtain information from long-dead mammals and explains what this information can tell us of relevance to ongoing pressing environmental issues"--
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By: Bon Ku
ISBN: 9780262543606
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th February 2022
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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By: Albert Folch
ISBN: 9780262046893
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"This book presents a history of microfluidic devices, primarily through interviews with some of their progenitors. It also discusses the science, engineering, and myriad applications, including the rapid pregnancy test, inkjet printing, glucose sensors, and genome sequencing"--
(Hardback)
By: Melanie Swalwell
ISBN: 9780262044776
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"A history of "homebrew" gaming, focusing explicitly on the Australian and New Zealand contexts"--
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By: Trevor Norton
ISBN: 9781444732580
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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'Norton writes with wit and a fine eye for the poetry in the scientific world...funny and gripping.' The Guardian
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By: Erin Malone
ISBN: 9780262548892
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"A collection of profiles of important women in the field of interaction design"--
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By: Glenn Adamson
ISBN: 9780262511865
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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The first publication documenting the work of Brooks Stevens, one of America's most influential twentieth-century designers.
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By: Tom Jenkins
ISBN: 9780771050916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
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(Hardback)
By: Ariel Ekblaw
ISBN: 9780262046374
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 14th October 2021
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"Inspired by the "Whole Earth Catalog," this book features 40 flight-tested prototypes of futuristic objects developed through research funded by MIT Space Exploration Initiative. It includes never-before-seen images of these objects in microgravity and on the International Space Station"--
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By: Nikolaus Correll
ISBN: 9780262047555
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"An introduction to robotics for undergraduates in engineering. The book is explicitly robot-agnostic, reflecting the timeliness of fundamental concepts"--
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By: Nancy G. Leveson
ISBN: 9780262546881
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"The book covers the fundamentals of safety engineering that includes general discussions of risk, ethics, and societal/policy implications. It also presents the historical and legal frameworks in which this field exists"--
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By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262048057
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 9th February 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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By: Pagan Kennedy
ISBN: 9780593073476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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A businessman struggles with his luggage at an airport and pioneers the wheeled suitcase. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and dreams up the mobile phone. Why were these particular people able to identify a problem, and how did they discover the solutions that everyone else missed
