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Bonus chapter! Already a classic, the 2017 updated edition of "Smartphone Love affair" contains a new chapter on our Commander-in-Chief's Twitter habits. Is president Donald J. Trump addicted to Twitter? Are you addicted to Twitter? Read this exciting "Bonus Chapter" to find out.
With his current effort, Dr. Roberts asks readers if they may be getting "Too Much of a Good Thing" regarding their smartphone use. This is no hoity-toity treatise but a...
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W. W. Norton
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2024.
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English
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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 planetary aspects--often occurring in health care, infrastructure,...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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What role should corporate culture play in the development of an airplane? Discover what went wrong in the development of Boeing's 737 MAX and how the flawed design of the airplane's flight control system led to 346 deaths in two separate crashes. Have we learned the apparently difficult lesson that prioritizing the corporate bottom line over technological excellence does not work?
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