- Aramis, or the Love of Technology
- Bruno Latour
- The story of the birth and death of Aramis--the guided-transportation system intended for Paris--is told in this thought-provoking and fictional account by several different parties: an engineer and his professor; company executives and elected officials; a sociologist; and finally Aramis itself, who delivers a passionate plea on behalf of technological innovations that risk being abandoned by their makers.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1996
- Invention by Design
- Henry Petroski
- This book offers an insider's look at the political and cultural dimensions of design, development, and production, and reaffirms Petroski as the master explicator of the principles and processes that turn thoughts into the many things that define our material world.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998