Pool Robert:
Beyond Engineering
How Society Shapes Technology
Oxford University Press (United States), 1997
Hardback, 370 pages
Size: 234x156 mm
ISBN: 9780195107722
ISBN-10: 0195107721
Beyond Engineering
Part of the "Sloan Foundation Technology Book" series, this book explores the forces that drive technological development along the specific paths that it takes, using the nuclear power industry as a recurrent case-study example, but drawing in other technologies, such as personal computers and software, and electrical power and space flight.

