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20 produkter
Think Like An Engineer
Inside the Minds that are Changing our Lives
Häftad, 2016
123 kr
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Discover the secrets of the minds that built our world – and how they might teach us to think differently and innovate better.'Smart, insightful, and fascinating.' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs: The Exclusive BiographyDubai’s Burj Khalifa – the world’s tallest building – looks nothing like …
Making Better Choices
Design, Decisions, and Democracy
Av Charles E. Phelps, Guru Madhavan
Inbunden, 2021
698 kr
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Systems engineering offers a set of capabilities and competencies to design and manage complex systems as they evolve. Drawing from social choice research and systems engineering practice, Making Better Choices examines how we make decisions together and the tools we use to arrive at those …
Making Better Choices
Design, Decisions, and Democracy
Av Guru Madhavan, Charles E. Phelps
E-bok, 2021
499 kr
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Systems engineering offers a set of capabilities and competencies to design and manage complex systems as they evolve. Drawing from social choice research and systems engineering practice, Making Better Choices examines how we make decisions together and the tools we use to arrive at those …
Making Better Choices
Design, Decisions, and Democracy
Av Guru Madhavan, Charles E. Phelps
E-bok, 2021
499 kr
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Systems engineering offers a set of capabilities and competencies to design and manage complex systems as they evolve. Drawing from social choice research and systems engineering practice, Making Better Choices examines how we make decisions together and the tools we use to arrive at those …
Health Risks of Indoor Exposure to Particulate Matter
Workshop Summary
Av Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
749 kr
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines PM as a mixture of extremely small particles and liquid droplets comprising a number of components, including "acids (such as nitrates and sulfates), organic chemicals, metals, soil or dust particles, and allergens (such as fragments of pollen …
Making Medicines Affordable
A National Imperative
Av Committee on Ensuring Patient Access to Affordable Drug Therapies, Board on Health Care Services m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
981 kr
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Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed untreatable. At the same time, however, the United States is facing the vexing challenge of a seemingly uncontrolled rise in …
Guiding Cancer Control
A Path to Transformation
Av Committee on a National Strategy for Cancer Control in the United States, Board on Health Care Services m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
803 kr
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Throughout history, perhaps no other disease has generated the level of social, scientific, and political discourse or has had the degree of cultural significance as cancer. A collective in the truest sense of the word, "cancer" is a clustering of different diseases that afflict individuals in …
Applied Minds
How Engineers Think
Inbunden, 2015
260 kr
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Dubai's Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest building—looks nothing like Microsoft’s Office Suite, and digital surround sound doesn’t work like a citywide telecommunication grid. Yet these engineering feats have much in common.Applied Minds explores the unique visions and mental tools of engineers to …
Applied Minds
How Engineers Think
Häftad, 2016
181 kr
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In this engaging account of innovative triumphs, Guru Madhavan examines the ways in which engineers throughout history created world-changing tools, from ATMs and ZIP codes to the digital camera and the disposable diaper. Equal parts personal, practical, and profound, Applied Minds charts a path to …
Wicked Problems
How to Engineer a Better World
Inbunden, 2024
294 kr
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Our world is filled with pernicious problems: how, for example, did novice pilots learn to fly without taking to the air and risking their lives? We have generated solutions over time but challenges like these—wicked problems that tangle personal, public and environmental factors—are not going away …
Notes to a Young Engineer
Inbunden, 2027
272 kr
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In Notes to a Young Engineer , Guru Madhavan charts what it means to be an engineer in a human world-and a human in an engineered world. Organized around twelve maxims that move from technical mastery toward civic prudence, he summons an ensemble of engineers who turned their craft toward larger …
Blue Box
Ed Link and the Birth of Modern Aviation
Häftad, 2026
206 kr
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After the Wright brothers helped America “find her wings”, the early days of aviation were fraught with disaster. That is, until 1929, when Ed Link invented the flight simulator, which allowed pilots to train on the ground. Dubbed the “blue box”, the Link Trainer forged more than half a million …
Practicing Sustainability
Av Guru Madhavan, Barbara Oakley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
456 kr
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Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently—much as water is edged and shaped by its container. It is conceived in absolute terms but underpinned by a great diversity of relatively “green”—and sometimes contradictory—practices …
Practicing Sustainability
Av Penny Low, David Koon m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
657 kr
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Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently—much as water is edged and shaped by its container. It is conceived in absolute terms but underpinned by a great diversity of relatively “green”—and sometimes contradictory—practices …
Practicing Sustainability
Av Guru Madhavan, Barbara Oakley m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
453 kr
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Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently—much as water is edged and shaped by its container. It is conceived in absolute terms but underpinned by a great diversity of relatively “green”—and sometimes contradictory—practices …
Think Like An Engineer
Inside the Minds that are Changing our Lives
E-bok, 2015
106 kr
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Discover the secrets of the minds that built our world – and how they might teach us to think differently and innovate better.'Smart, insightful, and fascinating.' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs: The Exclusive BiographyDubai’s Burj Khalifa – the world’s tallest building – looks nothing like …
Engineering and Philosophy
Reimagining Technology and Social Progress
Av Zachary Pirtle, David Tomblin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1641 kr
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Engineers love to build “things” and have an innate sense of wanting to help society. However, these desires are often not connected or developed through reflections on the complexities of philosophy, biology, economics, politics, environment, and culture. To guide future efforts and to best bring …
Engineering and Philosophy
Reimagining Technology and Social Progress
Av Guru Madhavan, David Tomblin m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
2065 kr
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Engineers love to build “things” and have an innate sense of wanting to help society. However, these desires are often not connected or developed through reflections on the complexities of philosophy, biology, economics, politics, environment, and culture. To guide future efforts and to best bring …
Engineering and Philosophy
Reimagining Technology and Social Progress
Av Zachary Pirtle, David Tomblin m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1641 kr
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Engineers love to build “things” and have an innate sense of wanting to help society. However, these desires are often not connected or developed through reflections on the complexities of philosophy, biology, economics, politics, environment, and culture. To guide future efforts and to best bring …
Applied Minds
How Engineers Think
E-bok, 2016
68 kr
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Razum cheloveka sposoben ne tol''ko darit'' chudesa inzhenernoj mysli, no i nahodit'' novye sposoby reshenija razlichnyh problem povsednevnoj zhizni i biznesa. V jetoj knige opisyvaetsja filosofija inzhenernogo myshlenija, kotoraja stoit za proektirovaniem reshenij, osnovannyh na sistemnosti, …
