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Success through failure : the paradox of design / Henry Petroski.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petroski, Henry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Engineering design--Case studies.
- Engineering design.
- System failures (Engineering)--Case studies.
- System failures (Engineering).
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- 1 From Plato's Cave to PowerPoint 10
- 2 Success and Failure in Design 44
- 3 Intangible Things 81
- 4 Things Small and Large 97
- 5 Building on Success 116
- 6 Stepping-Stones to Super-Spans 139
- 7 The Historical Future 163.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-218) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0691122253
- OCLC:
- 62341568
- Publisher Number:
- 9780691122250
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