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To Forgive Design : Understanding Failure
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To Forgive Design : Understanding Failure Hardcover - 2016

by Petroski, Henry

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  • Title To Forgive Design : Understanding Failure
  • Author Petroski, Henry
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 426
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 03/31/2016
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4370315-6
  • ISBN 9780674065840 / 0674065840
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.43 x 5.79 x 1.36 in (21.41 x 14.71 x 3.45 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects System failures (Engineering)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011044194
  • Dewey Decimal Code 620.004

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About the author

Henry Petroski's previous books include To Engineer Is Human, which was developed into a BBC television documentary; The Pencil; The Evolution of Useful Things; and Engineers of Dreams. Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History at Duke University.

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