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  • Implosion

    Lessons from National Security, High Reliability Spacecraft, Electronics, and the Forces Which Changed Them

    by L. Parker Temple ...
    Implosion is a focused study of the history and uses of high-reliability, solid-state electronics, military standards, and space systems that support our national security and defense. This book is unique in combining the interdependent evolution of and interrelationships among military standards, solid-state electronics, and very high-reliability space systems.Starting with a brief description of ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

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  • The Department of Mad Scientists

    How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs

    by Michael Belfiore ...
    The first-ever inside look at DARPA—the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—the maverick and controversial group whose futuristic work has had amazing civilian and military applications, from the Internet to GPS to driverless carsAmerica's greatest idea factory isn't Bell Labs, Silicon Valley, or MIT's Media Lab. It's the secretive, Pentagon-led agency known as DARPA. Founded by Eisenhower ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Normal Accidents

    Living with High Risk Technologies

    by Charles Perrow ...
    Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Clockspeed

    Winning Industry Control In The Age Of Temporary Advantage

    by Charles H. Fine ...
    Learn how businesses can survive—and thrive—in the midst of constant change, with this informative and accessible guide.In Clockspeed, Charles Fine draws on a decade's worth of research at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management to introduce a new vocabulary for understanding the forces of competition and making strategic decisions that will determine the destiny of your company, as well as your ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Rescuing Prometheus

    Four Monumental Projects that Changed Our World

    by Thomas P. Hughes ...
    "A rare insight into industrial planning on a huge scale...Excellent." --The EconomistRescuing Prometheus is an eye-opening and marvelously informative look at some of the technological projects that helped shape the modern world. Thomas P. Hughes focuses on four postwar projects whose vastness and complexity inspired new technology, new organizations, and new management styles. The first use of ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $5.99 CAD

  • Transportation Security

    by Clifford Bragdon ...
    Insecure transportation systems are costing our worldwide mobility-based economy as much as 6% of GDP annually. The effectiveness of security measures vary widely. In the United States, depending on the mode of transportation, it ranges from "medium effectiveness for airports to "low effectiveness for maritime, rail, transit, and intermodal activities. Situational awareness and interoperability ... Read more

    $82.39 CAD

  • Managing Technological Innovation

    Competitive Advantage from Change

    by Frederick Betz ...
    Written by the author who helped crystalize the field of technology management and the management of innovation with the first two editions of Managing Technological Innovation, this Third Edition brings the subject in line with current business strategy. It also presents information in a newer organized format that aligns more closely with how the topics are presented and discussed in the ... Read more

    $169.99 CAD

  • Definitive Guide to Transportation, The

    Principles, Strategies, and Decisions for the Effective Flow of Goods and Services

    by CSCMP, Deepak Iyengar, Shashank Rao, Thomas Goldsby ...
    Series series Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
    This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain transportation processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it brings together up-to-the-minute principles, strategies, and decisions for cost-efficiently and effectively moving goods between sellers and buyers. CSCMP and Thomas ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • GPS Declassified

    by Richard D. Easton ...
    GPS Declassified examines the development of GPS from its secret, Cold War military roots to its emergence as a worldwide consumer industry. Drawing on previously unexplored documents, the authors examine how military rivalries influenced the creation of GPS and shaped public perceptions about its origin. Since the United States’ first program to launch a satellite in the late 1950s, the nation ... Read more

    $49.27 CAD

  • Space Safety Regulations and Standards

    Edited by Joseph N. Pelton, Ram Jakhu ...
    When international rules and regulations governing space travel were first being developed, only a few countries had any space presence and commercial space activity was non-existent. Today, over 50 countries have on-orbit satellites and commercial space presence is essential to commercial telecommunications and broadcasting, yet international space law remains in its infancy.Space Safety ... Read more

    $176.79 CAD

  • Digital State

    The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry

    by Thomas J. Misa ...
    Accounts of the early events of the computing industry—the Turing machine, the massive Colossus, the ENIAC computer—are well-told tales, and equally well known is the later emergence of Silicon Valley and the rise of the personal computer. Yet there is an extraordinary untold middle history—with deep roots in Minnesota. From the end of World War II through the 1970s, Minnesota was home to the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Drones - The Next Generation of Unmanned Flight

    by Lawrence E. Wilson ...
    Drones - The Next Generation of Unmanned Flight is the most recent eBook in the Genesys Publishing's Technology and Innovation Series. We address key questions including: What is the history and background of drone technology? What is the market size and growth for drones over the coming decade? What are the three major market segments for drones and the most important applications in each sector? ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus