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  • Accidents and Disasters

    Lessons from Air Crashes and Pandemics

    par Satish Chandra ...
    Collections series Engineering (R0)
    This book deals with the contemporary subject of perception of risk and its influence on accidents and disasters. The contents examine the conventional viewpoints on human errors, incubation of errors, complexity and organisational deviance as a cause for accidents. Work of Mary Douglas with regard to risk, Charles Perrow's work on the normal accident theory and Diane Vaughan's theory on ... En savoir plus

    $57.69 CAD

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  • Mission Economy

    A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

    par Mariana Mazzucato ...
    Longlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Big Ideas & New Perspectives“She offers something both broad and scarce: a compelling new story about how to create a desirable future.”—New York TimesAn award-winning author and leading international economist delivers a hard-hitting and much needed critique of modern capitalism in which she argues that, to solve the massive crises facing ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

    par Sidney Dekker ...
    When faced with a ’human error’ problem, you may be tempted to ask 'Why didn’t these people watch out better?' Or, 'How can I get my people more engaged in safety?' You might think you can solve your safety problems by telling your people to be more careful, by reprimanding the miscreants, by issuing a new rule or procedure and demanding compliance. These are all expressions of 'The Bad Apple ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

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  • The Human Factor

    Revolutionizing the Way We Live with Technology

    par Kim Vicente ...
    What links the frustrations of daily life, like VCR clocks and voicemail systems, to airplane crashes and a staggering “hidden epidemic” of medical error?Kim Vicente is a professor of human factors engineering at the University of Toronto and a consultant to NASA, Microsoft, Nortel Networks and many other organizations; he might also be described as a “technological anthropologist.” He spends his ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Death of Homo Economicus

    Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation

    par Peter Fleming ...
    In today's workplaces we work harder and longer, labouring under the illusion that this will bring us more wealth. As this myth becomes increasingly preposterous, it's time to understand why we believe in it, and where it came from.The Death of Homo Economicus explores the origin of this oppressive myth, in order to destroy it. The story begins with the creation of a fake persona labelled the ... En savoir plus

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  • Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents

    par James Reason ...
    Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic. One of the greatest challenges we face is to develop more effective ways of both understanding and limiting their occurrence. This lucid book ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Safety Anarchist

    Relying on human expertise and innovation, reducing bureaucracy and compliance

    par Sidney Dekker ...
    Work has never been as safe as it seems today. Safety has also never been as bureaucratized as it is today. Over the past two decades, the number of safety rules and statutes has exploded, and organizations themselves are creating ever more internal compliance requirements. At the same time, progress on safety has slowed to a crawl. Many incident- and injury rates have flatlined. Worse, excellent ... En savoir plus

    $72.82 CAD

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  • Drift into Failure

    From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems

    par Sidney Dekker ...
    What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner’s tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $101.68 CAD Maintenant $90.68 CAD

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  • Ethics, Technology, and Engineering

    An Introduction

    par Ibo van de Poel, Lamber Royakkers ...
    Featuring a wide range of international case studies, Ethics, Technology, and Engineering presents a unique and systematic approach for engineering students to deal with the ethical issues that are increasingly inherent in engineering practice.Utilizes a systematic approach to ethical case analysis -- the ethical cycle -- which features a wide range of real-life international case studies ... En savoir plus

    $59.99 CAD

  • Canadian Failures

    Stories of Building Toward Success

    par Alex Benay ...
    The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017Successful Canadians write about failure, and how it got them where they are today.What does it mean to fail? To some of the most successful Canadians, it was a rite of passage, a stepping stone to greater things, or even a brilliant source of inspiration. Olympic golds, successful businesses, pioneering medical advances — all came about after a series of missteps ... En savoir plus

    $8.69 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Organizational Accidents Revisited

    par James Reason ...
    Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents introduced the notion of an ’organizational accident’. These are rare but often calamitous events that occur in complex technological systems operating in hazardous circumstances. They stand in sharp contrast to ’individual accidents’ whose damaging consequences are limited to relatively few people or assets. Although they share some common causal ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management

    Modifié par Bent Flyvbjerg ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management provides state-of-the-art scholarship in the emerging field of megaproject management. Megaprojects are large, complex projects which typically cost billions of dollars and impact millions of people, like building a high-speed rail line, a megadam, a national health or pensions IT system, a new wide-body aircraft, or staging the Olympics. The book ... En savoir plus

    $39.19 CAD