‎Ingenierie‎

‎Petree J Foster ed.‎

‎The Junior Institution of Engineers. Journal and Record of Transactions. Volume LXVI 1955 - 56‎

‎London: Percival Marshall & Co Ltd. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Ex-lib. 1956. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover with gilt titles and motif plus blind-stamped design. 210mm x 140mm 8" x 6". 460pp. . Percival Marshall & Co Ltd hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : je-66

‎Petree J Foster ed.‎

‎The Junior Institution of Engineers. Journal and Record of Transactions. Volume LXVIII 1957 - 58‎

‎London: Percival Marshall & Co Ltd. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Ex-lib. 1958. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover with gilt titles and motif plus blind-stamped design. 210mm x 140mm 8" x 6". 388pp. . Percival Marshall & Co Ltd hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : je-68

‎Petree J Foster ed.‎

‎The Junior Institution of Engineers. Journal and Record of Transactions. Volume LXXV 1964 - 65‎

‎London: Institute of Engineers. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Ex-lib. 1965. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover with gilt titles and motif plus blind-stamped design. 210mm x 140mm 8" x 6". 404pp. . Institute of Engineers hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : je-75

‎Petree J Foster ed.‎

‎The Junior Institution of Engineers. Journal and Record of Transactions. Volume LXXII 1961 - 62‎

‎London: Institute of Engineers. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Ex-lib. 1962. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover with gilt titles and motif plus blind-stamped design. 210mm x 140mm 8" x 6". 392pp. . Institute of Engineers hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : je-72

‎Petree J. F. & Cooper C.‎

‎Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal July to December Volume 154‎

‎Engineering 1942. Volume 154. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1950grams ISBN: Engineering hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 7981679

‎Petrie G & Kennie T J M eds‎

‎Terrain Modelling in Surveying and Civil Engineering‎

‎Whittles Publishing 1990. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Whittles Publishing hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 6994107 ISBN : 1870325303 9781870325301

‎Petrie G. and Kennie T. eds.‎

‎Terrain Modelling in Surveying and Civil Engineering‎

‎Whittles Publishing 1990. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item850grams ISBN:1870325303 Whittles Publishing hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 8002266 ISBN : 1870325303 9781870325301

‎Petrie G. Kennie TJM. Eds. T. J.‎

‎Terrain Modelling in Surveying and Civil Engineering‎

‎Whittles Publishing 1990. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. 850grams ISBN:1870325303 Whittles Publishing hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 6418926 ISBN : 1870325303 9781870325301

‎Petroski Henry‎

‎ENGINEER OF DREAMS: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Inc. 1995. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. As new in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. NFBS1 <br/> <br/> Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 11319 ISBN : 0679439390 9780679439394

‎Petroski Henry‎

‎Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America‎

‎New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc 1995 Light soiling to the edges. Minor edgewear to the dust jacket. Clean text. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Alfred a Knopf Inc hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 007957 ISBN : 0679439390 9780679439394

‎Petroski Henry‎

‎Remaking the World : Adventures in Engineering‎

‎New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1997. Tiny remainder dot else Fine condition in bright Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean square tight and unmarked. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp apparently never read. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. From the Dust Jacket: "This collection of informative and pleasurable essays by Henry Petroski elucidates the role of engineers in shaping our environment in countless ways big and small. In REMAKING THE WORLD Petroski gravitates this time perhaps toward the big: the English Channel tunnel the Panama Canal Hoover Dam the QE2 and the Petronas Towers in Malaysia now the tallest buildings in the world. He profiles Charles Steinmetz the genius of the General Electric Company; Henry Martyn Robert a military engineer who created Robert's Rules of Order; and James Nasmyth the Scotsman whose machine tools helped shape nineteenth-century ocean and rail transportation. Petroski sifts through the fossils of technology for cautionary tales and remarkable twists of fortune and reminds us that failure is often a necessary step on the path to new discoveries. He explains soil mechanics by way of a game of 'rock scissors paper' and clarifies fundamental principles of engineering through the spokes of a Ferris wheel.". First Edition so stated. Hard Cover. Black spine / yellow boards/DJ Not Price Clipped 24.00. 8vo. xiii 240pp. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 003311 ISBN : 0375400419 9780375400414

‎Petroski Henry‎

‎Small Things Considered : Why There Is No Perfect Design‎

‎New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2003. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 288 pp slight nick to top edge; DJ general edging scuffing. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 003264 ISBN : 1400040507 9781400040506

‎Petroski H‎

‎To Engineer Is Human‎

‎Macmillan 1985. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item500grams ISBN:0333406737 Macmillan hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 8223382 ISBN : 0333406737 9780333406731

‎PETROSKI HENRY‎

‎To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure‎

‎Harvard University Press Cambridge Massachusetts and London England: 2012. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. 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. In To Forgive Design he surveys some of the most infamous failures of our time from the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse and the toppling of a massive Shanghai apartment building in 2009 to Boston's prolonged Big Dig and the 2010 Gulf oil spill. These avoidable disasters reveal the interdependency of people and machines within systems whose complex behavior was undreamt of by their designers until it was too late. Petroski shows that even the simplest technology is embedded in cultural and socioeconomic constraints complications and contradictions. Failure to imagine the possibility of failure is the most profound mistake engineers can make. Software developers realized this early on and looked outside their young field to structural engineering as they sought a historical perspective to help them identify their own potential mistakes. By explaining the interconnectedness of technology and culture and the dangers that can emerge from complexity Petroski demonstrates that we would all do well to follow their lead. Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History at Duke University. "An engaging book� Reading these pages reminds us of how many spectacular failures have occupied the news pages for a week or two in our lifetimes� If Petroski's account proves anything it's that the forces of the real world may eventually prevail on even the mightiest structures."�Bill McKibben The New York Review of Books "A book that is at once an absorbing love letter to engineering and a paean to its breakdowns� This book is a litany of failure including falling concrete in the Big Dig in Boston the loss of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia the rupture of New Orleans levees collapsing buildings in the Haitian earthquake the Deepwater Horizon blowout the sinking of the Titanic the metal fatigue that doomed 1950s-era de Havilland Comet jets�and swaying crumpling bridges from Britain to Cambodia� Readers will encounter a moving discussion of the responsibility of the engineer to the public and the ways young engineers can be helped to grasp them."�Cornelia Dean The New York Times "A fascinating and occasionally unnerving history of engineering failures� After reading this book one might be tempted never to venture across a bridge again. But of course that would miss Petroski's goal: to show how engineers learn from failure and improve their designs� For those who enjoy reading about girders and trusses To Forgive Design is yes riveting� Petroski amply shows the wisdom of the proverb that failure is a good teacher. Even a collapsed bridge leads somewhere."�Matt Ridley The Wall Street Journal "Americans are encouraged to believe that failure is not an option but author Henry Petroski regards it as just about inevitable. A professor of civil engineering and history at Duke University Petroski began his writing career with To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design an influential work that deals with mechanical and engineering failures. This huge sequel devotes much more attention to the interplay between human beings machines buildings and disaster. It's exhaustive relentless often exhilarating�and given its technical nature surprisingly readable� If you're already a bit phobic about flying in a plane crossing a suspension bridge or even driving a car To Forgive Design is probably not for you� Petroski chronicles the story of failure with a measure of affection reminiscent of a biographer of Attila the Hun who develops a grudging fondness for his subject. But whether or not the latter had redeeming qualities the former surely does: Failure reminds us to avoid the sin of pride. I thoroughly enjoyed To Forgive Design even down to the gloomy quote from the famously gloomy writer Samuel Beckett: 'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.'"�Joe Queenan Barron's "Non-engineers needn't worry that the book will be too dense with details; Petroski makes the science easily understandable� This is a book that satisfactorily explains why our determination to push the boundaries guarantees both failure and triumph."�James F. Sweeney The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Engineering is interesting when it works but much more compelling when it doesn't. Petroski may be one of his profession's establishment figures but his key finding is highly critical: because most engineers don't know much about the history of engineering complacency and gee-whizz design software is likely to foment a fairly regular incidence of potentially catastrophic structural failures� Much of the information will be of great interest to engineers and designers� The most brilliantly explained engineering failure concerns the ocean-bed blowout involving the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in 2010. Petroski's exposition is immensely detailed and benefits from being linear in its narrative. This section of the book is exemplary in its remorseless exfoliation of the technical and commercial reasons for the incident."�Jay Merrick The Independent "Mustering a truly staggering array of examples of past engineering failures Petroski makes the case that failure is a necessary component of technological development and that structures machines and other engineered devices do not exist in isolation but instead are designed and used within a tangle of competing constraints and unpredictable scenarios� At his best Petroski is a compelling storyteller and his recounting of past disasters and near-disasters can be fascinating. In addition to several detailed but well-paced narratives of familiar failures such as the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion the book contains a great deal of intriguing arcana� Petroski's greatest asset as a writer is his impressive historical erudition. He seems to have an infinite file of meticulously detailed case studies that illustrate his points and any thought of just how long he must have spent researching inspires mild fear. He has written prolifically for nearly three decades on the topic of failure in engineering and there is no doubt whatsoever that he knows what he's talking about� I would sincerely recommend To Forgive Design to anyone with a particular interest in historical engineering fiascos."�Colin McSwiggen Literary Review "To Forgive Design remains a largely accessible important contribution to the growing library of failure."�Colin Dickey The Los Angeles Review of Books "When a plane crashes or a bridge collapses faulty engineering is the usual suspect. But in seeking the roots of failure we should look beyond design says engineer Henry Petroski. We must probe the political and economic imperatives that shape purposes and use. In this follow-up to his influential To Engineer Is Human Petroski argues that accidents such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are the result of faults as much in 'human machinery' as in mechanical devices. He praises software developers for learning from structural engineering about how to report and analyze mishaps."�Nature "A rewarding read."�Jonathon Keats New Scientist "By critically examining the interdependency of people and machines related to bridge collapses airplane crashes and space shuttle failures Petroski discovers that understanding failure is the only way to bring successful design and engineering into the future."�Megan Wood Salon "For more than two decades Petroski has been delighting and educating readers with tales of engineering failures and how they can lead to safer technology� Always technically well informed and gifted with a comfortable engaging storytelling style Petroski shows readers how engineering design is a compromise between the ideal of perfect safety and the practicalities of limited resources. The lesson is that engineering makes advances through failure but only if the lessons that failure teaches are applied to future projects� To Forgive Design succeeds in conveying Petroski's message in a way that can be appreciated by the general reader and put to practical use by engineering students of all levels."�K.D. Stephan Choice "An authoritative text about the interrelationship between success and failure in the engineering enterprise� Petroski's most gripping passages are his Sherlockian dissections of engineering fiascos and the importance of learning from the vast archive of forensic analyses."�Kirkus Reviews "Petroski follows up his first book To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design with this examination of human failure. In the previous title he primarily considered mechanical and structural failures. Here he looks not only at how people contribute to the failure of engineering designs but also at how analyzing those failures can improve subsequent models. He considers many different types of failures from several infamous bridge collapses to carefully designed intentional failures which are engineered specifically to prevent greater failures. In each case Petroski goes beyond an explanation of the mechanical failure itself to point out how humans created these and other problems through systemic mistakes."�Carla H. Lee Library Journal "Though his focus here is primarily on bridges Petroski extends his analysis to include the sinking of the Titanic the mid-flight explosion of TWA Flight 800 the Challenger tragedy the Y2K computer programming crisis and the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Each has its own unique set of human mechanical and engineering failures and Petroski does a terrific job of identifying and communicating not only what went wrong but what was learned from the failure and how that knowledge has since been put into practice. Fellow engineers and armchair scientists will get the most out of the book but even the layman will find Petroski's study to be accessible informative and interesting."�Publishers Weekly Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2012 hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 83845X1

‎Petroski Henry‎

‎Invention By Design‎

‎CambridgeMa: Harvard University Press 1996. crease t dw rear panel. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/About Fine. Hardcover. Harvard University Press Hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 012088 ISBN : 0674463676 9780674463677

‎Petrov V. A.‎

‎Flowline Group Production Planning‎

‎Business Publications 1968. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item550grams ISBN:0220794715 Business Publications hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 5858313 ISBN : 0220794715 9780220794712

‎Petrucci, S (editor)‎

‎Ionic Interactions : From Dilute Solutions to Fused Salts - Volume I - Equilibrium and Mass Transport‎

‎407 pages. Index. "A comprehensive survey of ionic interactions in the entire range of concentrations from dilute solutions to fused salts... This volume surveys the equilibrium and transport properties of dilute electrolytes and fused salts." - from dust jacket. Book and dust jacket clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Dust jacket now preserved in new archival-grade Brodart cover. Excellent copy. Book‎

‎Pettet J‎

‎Site Surveying and Levelling: Level 2‎

‎Nelson Thornes Ltd 1981. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. With usual stamps and markings In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Nelson Thornes Ltd paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 7513257 ISBN : 0091436214 9780091436216

‎Pettit F.‎

‎Post-digital Electronics‎

‎John Wiley & Sons 1982. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item450grams ISBN:0853124213 John Wiley & Sons hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 6771788 ISBN : 0853124213 9780853124214

‎Petty E R‎

‎Physical Metallurgy of Engineering Materials‎

‎George Allen & Unwin 1968. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Dust Jacket in good condition. George Allen & Unwin hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 3367239

‎Peurifoy RL. Ledbetter WB R. L.‎

‎Construction Planning Equipment and Methods‎

‎McGraw-Hill 1985. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1150grams ISBN:007049763X McGraw-Hill hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 8602444 ISBN : 007049763X 9780070497634

‎Peurifoy R L‎

‎Construction Planning Equipment and Methods Third Edition‎

‎McGraw-Hill 1979. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1200grams ISBN:0070497605 McGraw-Hill hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 6032716 ISBN : 0070497605 9780070497603

‎Peurifoy RL. R. L.‎

‎Formwork for Concrete Structures‎

‎Mcgraw-Hill Inc.Us 1976. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust Jacket in good condition. Mcgraw-Hill Inc.,Us hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 6236791 ISBN : 0070497540 9780070497542

‎PF COOPER‎

‎Biological Fluidized Bed Treatment of Water and Wastewater‎

‎John Wiley & Sons 1981. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item800grams ISBN:0853122628 John Wiley & Sons hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 7134476 ISBN : 0853122628 9780853122623

‎PF. Bestwick P. F.‎

‎Quantitative Production Management: Solutions Manual‎

‎FT Prentice Hall 1982. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. FT Prentice Hall paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 5395234 ISBN : 027301613X 9780273016137