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Normal Accidents
Language: en
Pages: 464
Authors: Charles Perrow
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-12 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building i
The Limits of Safety
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Scott Douglas Sagan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-05 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Environmental tragedies such as Chernobyl and the Exxon Valdez remind us that catastrophic accidents are always possible in a world full of hazardous technologi
Accidents of Nature
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: Harriet McBryde Johnson
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-02 - Publisher: Macmillan

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Having always prided herself on blending in with "normal" people despite her cerebral palsy, seventeen-year-old Jean begins to question her role in the world wh
Friendly Fire
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Scott A. Snook
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-19 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peace
Post Normal Accident
Language: en
Pages: 177
Authors: Jean-Christophe Le Coze
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-15 - Publisher: CRC Press

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Post Normal Accident revisits Perrow’s classic Normal Accident published in 1984 and provides additional insights to our sociological view of safety-critical