The Dominion of Canada : containing a historical sketch of the preliminaries and organization of confederation : also, the vast improvements made in agriculture, commerce and trade, modes of travel and transportation, mining, and educational interests
The Dominion of Canada : containing a historical sketch of the preliminaries and organization of confederation : also, the vast improvements made in agriculture, commerce and trade, modes of travel and transportation, mining, and educational interests...
Analyzes the social side of technological risk. This book argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. It asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents.
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Analyzes the social side of technological risk. This book argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. It asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents.
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Good. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Green cloth binding with gilt design on the front cover and gilt print and design on the spine. Marble design end papers and page edging. No markings in the text with a few light soils spots and some pages with foxing and tanning. There is a name and date (Dec 25, 1886) printed on one of the blank front end papers. There is some white spots on the back cover that appear to be paint droppings. The spine has a small edge tear on the front near the bottom end and ther is some very light wear on the top end. The title page states, Fully illustrated with steel and electrotype plate engravings.
