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The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
ISBN: 9780307473509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world s most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural disasters to the development of efficient automobiles and the search for renewable energy sources. While the scientist may identify problems, it falls to the engineer to solve them. It is the inherent practicality of engineering, which takes into account structural, economic,...
From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the way...
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95,17 zł |
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Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
ISBN: 9780674463684 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Henry Petroski's previous bestsellers have delighted readers with intriguing stories about the engineering marvels around us, from the lowly pencil to the soaring suspension bridge. In this book, Petroski delves deeper into the mystery of invention, to explore what everyday artifacts and sophisticated networks can reveal about the way engineers solve problems. Engineering entails more than knowing the way things work. What do economics and ecology, aesthetics and ethics, have to do with the shape of a paper clip, the tab of a beverage can, the cabin design of a turbojet, or the... Henry Petroski's previous bestsellers have delighted readers with intriguing stories about the engineering marvels around us, from the lowly pencil... |
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133,35 zł |
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To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
ISBN: 9780679734161 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,87 zł |
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Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering
ISBN: 9781400032945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America's poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created-bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering's past, its present, and its future. Along the way it highlights our greatest successes, like London's Tower Bridge; our most ambitious projects, like China's Three Gorges Dam; our most embarrassing moments, like the wobbly Millennium Bridge in London; and our greatest failures, like the...
Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America's poet laureate of technology. ...
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99,50 zł |
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Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering
ISBN: 9780521466493 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From classical temples to twentieth century towers, engineers have learned more about design from failure than from success. The concept of error, according to the author of Design Paradigms, is central to the design process. As a way of explaining the enduring aspects of engineering design, Henry Petroski relates stories of some of the greatest engineering successes and failures of all time. These case studies, drawn from a wide range of times and places, from Ancient Greece and Rome to modern America, serve as paradigms of error and judgment in engineering design. By showing how errors were...
From classical temples to twentieth century towers, engineers have learned more about design from failure than from success. The concept of error, acc...
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144,64 zł |
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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
ISBN: 9780679734154 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology today.
Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centur...
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112,48 zł |
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An Engineer's Alphabet: Gleanings from the Softer Side of a Profession
ISBN: 9781107015067 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Written by America's most famous engineering storyteller and educator, this abecedarium is one engineer's selection of thoughts, quotations, anecdotes, facts, trivia, and arcana relating to the practice, history, culture, and traditions of his profession. The entries reflect decades of reading, writing, talking, and thinking about engineers and engineering, and range from brief essays to lists of great engineering achievements. This work is organized alphabetically and more like a dictionary than an encyclopedia. It is not intended to be read from first page to last, but rather to be dipped...
Written by America's most famous engineering storyteller and educator, this abecedarium is one engineer's selection of thoughts, quotations, anecdotes...
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139,69 zł |
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Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design
ISBN: 9781400032938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? What circuitous chain of improvements led to such innovations as the automobile cup holder and the swiveling vegetable peeler? With the same relentless curiosity and lucid, witty prose he brought to his earlier books, Henry Petroski looks at some of our most familiar objects and reveals that they are, in fact, works in progress. For there can never be an end to the quest for the perfect design.
To illustrate his thesis, Petroski tells the story of the paper drinking cup, which owes its... Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? What circuitous chain of improvements led to such inno...
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86,52 zł |
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Force: What It Means to Push and Pull, Slip and Grip, Start and Stop
ISBN: 9780300274134 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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71,34 zł |
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To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure
ISBN: 9780674416826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur"--P. [4] of cover.
"When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond...
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109,01 zł |
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Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design
ISBN: 9780691180991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,30 zł |
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Messer, Gabel, Reissverschluss: Die Evolution der Gebrauchsgegenstände
ISBN: 9783034861908 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2014 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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217,69 zł |
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