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Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies
by
Charles Perrow
About this title: 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 system helped produce the meltdown and subsequent fire.) By recognizing two dimensions of risk -- complex versus linear interactions, and tight versus loose coupling -- this book provides a powerful ...
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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
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Perrow, Charles
Binding: Hard cover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13: 9780465051434
ISBN: 046505143X
Description: Fair in fair dust jacket. Ex-library. Front endpaper removed. 386 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Normal Accidents Living With High-Risk Technologies
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Perrow, Charles
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13: 9780691004129
ISBN: 0691004129
Description: G. Minor shelf wear. Top 1/4th part of front cover cut off. Underlining. Pages bright, binding solid.; 451 pages. read more
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Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies
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ISBN-13: 9780691004129
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Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies
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Charles Perrow
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1999-09-27
ISBN-13: 9780691004129
ISBN: 0691004129
Description: Very Good. Trade paperback. Clean, tight, square, bright. Stickers on cover. Very minor shelfwear-a few scratches. VG. read more
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Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies
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Charles Perrow
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 27 September, 1999
ISBN-13: 9780691004129
ISBN: 0691004129
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Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies
by
Charles Perrow
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1984-03
ISBN-13: 9780465051434
ISBN: 046505143X
Description: G Good in NONE jacket. Hardback with Dustjacket. Retired From Library, typical library markings and pastedowns. Otherwise, Pages are clean, binding is tight and square. read more
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Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies
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Perrow, Charles
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13: 9780691004129
ISBN: 0691004129
Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 386 p. Princeton Paperbacks. New read more
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Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies
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Charles Perrow
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13: 9780691004129
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Date Published: 1999
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Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies
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Perrow, Charles
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 9780691004129
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Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies
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Charles Perrow
Binding: Book Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13: 9780465051434
ISBN: 046505143X
Description: G in G jacket. Ex-library copy in mylar dustjacket; Other than normal library stamps and stickers, in excellent condition. read more
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Normal Accidents
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Perrow, Charles
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13: 9780465051441
ISBN: 0465051448
Description: Very Good. 8vo over 7.75-9.75'' tall. Nice Tight copy! Previous owner name. 400 pages. read more
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Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies
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Charles Perrow
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780465051434
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Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies
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Charles Perrow
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780465051434
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Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies
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Charles Perrow
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ISBN-13: 9780691004129
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Normal Accidents
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Normal Accidents
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Perrow, Charles
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Date Published: 1999
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Publisher: University Presses Of California, C
Date Published: 1999
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Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies
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Perrow, Charles
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Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press
Date Published: 1999
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Normal Accidents Living With High-Risk Technologies
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Perrow, Charles
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Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13: 9780691004129
ISBN: 0691004129
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 386 pages. (386 pages) 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. edition new ed (Paperback) read more
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Normal Accidents-Living With High-Risk Technologies (Paper Only)
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Perrow
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13: 9780691004129
ISBN: 0691004129
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Normal Accidents: Living With High Risk Technologies
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Perrow, Charles (Author)
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13: 9780691004129
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Normal Accidents
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Perrow
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780465051441
ISBN: 0465051448
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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