Description: Combining captivating storytelling with eye-opening findings, Inviting Disaster delves inside some of history's worst catastrophes in order to show how increasingly "smart" systems leave us wide open to human tragedy. Weaving a dramatic narrative that explains how breakdowns in these systems result in such disasters as the chain reaction crash of the Air France Concorde to the meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, Chiles vividly demonstrates how the battle between man and machine may be escalating beyond manageable limits -- and why we all have a stake in its outcome. Included in this edition is a special introduction providing a behind-the-scenes look at the World Trade Center catastrophe. Combining firsthand accounts of employees' escapes with an in-depth look at the structural reasons behind the towers' collapse, Chiles addresses the question, Were the towers "two tall heroes" or structures with a fatal flaw
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EAN: 9780066620824
UPC: 9780066620824
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Book Title: Inviting Disaster : Lessons from the Edge of Technology
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Year: 2002
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Social Aspects, Industrial Design / General, Disasters & Disaster Relief, Machinery, Industrial Technology
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Item Weight: 10 oz
Author: James R. Chiles
Item Length: 5 in
Item Width: 8.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
