THE ESSENTIAL ENGINEER
Reviewed 7/10/2011
THE ESSENTIAL ENGINEER
Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
Henry Petroski
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, February 2010
Rating:
4.5
High
ISBN-13 978-0-307-27245-4
ISBN 0-307-27245-1
274pp.
HC/BWI
$26.95
Books by Henry Petroski
To Engineer Is Human
:
The Role of Failure in Successful Design
July 1985
ISBN 9780679734161
Beyond Engineering
:
Essays and Other Attempts to Figure without Equations
April 1986
ISBN 9780312077853
The Pencil
:
A History of Design and Circumstance
1990
ISBN 9780679734154
The Evolution of Useful Things
Nov. 1992
ISBN 9780679740391
Design Paradigms
:
Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering
Nov. 1994
ISBN 9780521466493
Engineers of Dreams
:
Great Bridge Builders and The Spanning of America
Nov. 1995
ISBN 9780679760214
Invention by Design
:
How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
Nov. 1996
ISBN 9780674463684
Remaking the World
:
Adventures in Engineering
Nov. 1997
ISBN 9780375700248
The Book on the Bookshelf
Nov. 1999
ISBN 9780375706394
Paperboy
:
Confessions of a Future Engineer
Nov. 2002
ISBN 9780375718984
Small Things Considered
:
Why There Is No Perfect Design
Nov. 2003
ISBN 9781400032938
Pushing the Limits
:
New Adventures in Engineering
Nov. 2004
ISBN 9781400032945
Success Through Failure
:
The Paradox of Design
Nov. 2006
ISBN 9780691136424
The Toothpick
:
Technology and Culture
Nov. 2007
ISBN 9780307279439
The Essential Engineer
:
Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
Nov. 2010
ISBN 9780307272454
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