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Wicked Problems

How to Engineer a Better World

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An ode to systems engineers—whose invisible work undergirds our life—and an exploration of the wicked problems they tackle.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? How should cities process mountains of waste without polluting the environment? Challenges that tangle personal, public, and ... Read more

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An ode to systems engineers—whose invisible work undergirds our life—and an exploration of the wicked problems they tackle.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? How should cities process mountains of waste without polluting the environment? Challenges that tangle personal, public, and
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Notes to a Young Engineer

by Guru Madhavan ...

Prompts to live by—for engineers, and for everyone living in the world engineers have made.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 purposes: one ... Read more

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Prompts to live by—for engineers, and for everyone living in the world engineers have made.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 purposes: one
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Applied Minds

How Engineers Think

by Guru Madhavan ...

"Engineers are titans of real-world problem-solving…In this riveting study of how they think, [Guru Madhavan] puts behind-the-scenes geniuses…center stage." —NatureIn 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 ... Read more

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"Engineers are titans of real-world problem-solving…In this riveting study of how they think, [Guru Madhavan] puts behind-the-scenes geniuses…center stage." —NatureIn 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
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The Blue Box

Ed Link and the Birth of Modern Aviation

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**The story of Ed Link—the unsung engineer who opened the skies for aspiring pilots—and an ode to the art of ingenuity.“A wonderful and energizing book. . . . It is an espresso machine for the imagination.” ?Rory Sutherland, author of Alchemy**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 ... Read more

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**The story of Ed Link—the unsung engineer who opened the skies for aspiring pilots—and an ode to the art of ingenuity.“A wonderful and energizing book. . . . It is an espresso machine for the imagination.” ?Rory Sutherland, author of Alchemy**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
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Making Better Choices

Design, Decisions, and Democracy

by Charles E. Phelps, Guru Madhavan ...

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 decisions. It takes a critical look at the rules and methods we apply to important decisions--from how we run ... Read more

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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 decisions. It takes a critical look at the rules and methods we apply to important decisions--from how we run
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Wicked Problems

How to Engineer a Better World

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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? How should cities process mountains of waste without polluting the environment? Challenges that tangle personal, public, and planetary aspects—often occurring in health care, infrastructure, business, and policy—are known as wicked problems, and they are ... Read more

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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? How should cities process mountains of waste without polluting the environment? Challenges that tangle personal, public, and planetary aspects—often occurring in health care, infrastructure, business, and policy—are known as wicked problems, and they are
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Applied Minds

How Engineers Think

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5 hours 22 min

A journey inside the minds that build our world.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 reveal the enormous-and often understated-influence ... Read more

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A journey inside the minds that build our world.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 reveal the enormous-and often understated-influence
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Engineering and Philosophy

Reimagining Technology and Social Progress

Edited by Zachary Pirtle, David Tomblin, Guru Madhavan ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
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 about human flourishment and a just world, Engineering and Philosophy: Reimagining Technology and ... Read more

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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 about human flourishment and a just world, Engineering and Philosophy: Reimagining Technology and
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Practicing Sustainability

Edited by Guru Madhavan, Barbara Oakley, David Green, David Koon, Penny Low ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
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 that can each make society only more or less sustainable. In Practicing Sustainability, chefs, poets, ... Read more

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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 that can each make society only more or less sustainable. In Practicing Sustainability, chefs, poets,
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Incendiary Circumstances

A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times

by Amitav Ghosh ...

Narrated by Sam Dastor ...

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A journalist who “illuminates the human drama behind the headlines” writes about today’s dramatic events, from terrorist attacks to tsunamis (Publishers Weekly).“An uncannily honest writer,” Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal world events in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and the New Yorker (The New York Times Book Review). This volume brings together the ... Read more

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A journalist who “illuminates the human drama behind the headlines” writes about today’s dramatic events, from terrorist attacks to tsunamis (Publishers Weekly).“An uncannily honest writer,” Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal world events in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and the New Yorker (The New York Times Book Review). This volume brings together the
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Strange Angel

The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons

by George Pendle ...

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Now a CBS All Access series: “A riveting tale of rocketry, the occult, and boom-and-bust 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles” (Booklist).The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon ... Read more

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Now a CBS All Access series: “A riveting tale of rocketry, the occult, and boom-and-bust 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles” (Booklist).The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon
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One, Two, Three

Absolutely Elementary Mathematics

by David Berlinski ...

Narrated by Byron Wagner ...

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From the acclaimed author of A Tour of the Calculus and The Advent of the Algorithm, here is a riveting look at mathematics that reveals a hidden world in some of its most fundamental concepts.In his latest foray into mathematics, David Berlinski takes on the simplest questions that can be asked: What is a number? How do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division actually work? What are ... Read more

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From the acclaimed author of A Tour of the Calculus and The Advent of the Algorithm, here is a riveting look at mathematics that reveals a hidden world in some of its most fundamental concepts.In his latest foray into mathematics, David Berlinski takes on the simplest questions that can be asked: What is a number? How do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division actually work? What are
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