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Standards

Recipes for Reality

Standards( )
Author: Busch, Lawrence
Series title:Infrastructures Ser.
ISBN:978-0-262-52505-3
Publication Date:Aug 2013
Publisher:MIT Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $40.00
Book Description:

An investigation into standards, the invisible infrastructures of our technical, moral, social, and physical worlds.

Standards are the means by which we construct realities. There are established standards for professional accreditation, the environment, consumer products, animal welfare, the acceptable stress for highway bridges, healthcare, education-for almost everything. We are surrounded by a vast array of standards, many of which we take for granted but each of which...
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Book Details
Pages:402
Detailed Subjects: Technology & Engineering / Industrial Engineering
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.06 x 9.06 x 0.75 Inches
Book Weight:1.212 Pounds



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