by Henry Petroski (1996)
This book explores the nature of engineering and technology through case studies of familiar objects, from paper clips and aluminum cans to airplanes and modern high-rise buildings. These real-world artifacts (some of which I have written about before) are approached here from a perspective designed to illuminate different facets of the engineering enterprise -- design, analysis, failure, economics, aesthetics, communications, politics, and quality control, to name but a few. The case studies also touch on a variety of engineering fields, including aeronautical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, manufacturing, mechanical, and structural engineering. - Preface.
Rick Delbridge
In a long tradition of ethnographic research in industrial sociology and management/labour studies, this text raises a number of important issues about the best ways to understand the complex and changing nature of work.
Gilles Pronovost
Synthèse et analyse sociologique sur le loisir moderne; c'est en même temps une étude de la société québécoise à travers le prisme du loisir. Cinq niveaux d'analyse: 1. Le système culturel: les rapports à la culture - 2. Les activités de loisir - 3. Les acteurs: les personnes âgées, les travailleurs en loisir, les associations - 4. Les structures sociales: les budgets-temps; l'équipement et le budget des ménages; les structures publiques et para-publiques - 5. Les institutions sociales: la famille; travail et loisir; les médias.
Janisse Ray
A memoir of a childhood, spend in an isolated Georgia community of Crackers, that grew into a passion to save the vanishing longleaf pine ecocystem in which she was raised.
Emily Ross and Angus Holland
Inside the success of 100 Business GeniusesRisk-loving entrepreneurs. Innovative geniuses. Self-starters and mavericks. The world’s greatest businesses were built by unique people, each bringing their own style and savvy to the marketplace. 100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them is a diverse and inspiring collections of great business stories. Covering a variety of success paths, brilliant strategies and engaging entrepreneurs, each profile explores the genius behind the greatest business mindsA mother's inspiration that launched Baby EinsteinAveda's journey from hippie to hipoHow Guinness overcame a centuries-old problem to conquer new marketsTiVo's long fight to explain the genius of their productHow Oprah went from person to empireAnd many moreAn engrossing look at what makes entrepreneurs and business geniuses tick, this book highlights the pivotal moments in the lives of great businesses, with lasting lesson on the art of making...