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KUECKEN JOHN A
How To Make Home Electricity From Wind Water & Sunshine
Tab Books Summit: 1979. Hardcover no dustjacket. Very good condition. This a technical book and not a political one and the attempt is made to provide practical technical suggestions regarding the generation of home electricity. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0830697853. Tab Books, Summit: 1979 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 89793X1 ISBN : 0830697853 9780830697854
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U. S. Army Coastal Engineering Research
Shore Protection Manual Vol. 1
2002-06-06. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 0894990926 ISBN : 0894990926 9780894990922
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Engineering Science Reference
Performance-Based Seismic Design of Concrete Structures and Infrastructures Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering
2017-02-03. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 1522520899 ISBN : 1522520899 9781522520894
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DREXLER ARTHUR INTRODUCTION
Twentieth Century Engineering
The Museum of Modern Art New York: 1964. Softcover. Good condition. Prepared to accompany an exhibition held at The Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1964. Contains 138 photos of engineering achievements during the twentieth century. The Museum of Modern Art, New York: 1964 paperback
Bookseller reference : 89374X1
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Peterson M B and Winer W O Eds.
Wear Control Handbook
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1980. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item2750grams ISBN: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6386824
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Vanier; J.
Dictionary of Aeronautical Term: Abridged Form
New York: American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth cover with black lettering on spine and top cover. Cover has some wear at corners and head tail of spine. Binding sound. Previous owner's name on front endpaper dated 1931. No other marks in book. Book is in German French and English languages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 141 pages . American Society of Mechanical Engineers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 16867
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Guan Heng Yeoh PhD. Mechanical Engineering Computational Fluid Dynamics University of New South Wales Sydney h. D.
Computational Techniques for Multiphase Flows
2009-02-07. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 0080467334 ISBN : 0080467334 9780080467337
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Nils Dalarsson MSc Engineering Physics 1982brLicentiate Swedish degree between MSc and PhD Theoretical Physics 1990brPhD T
Tensors Relativity and Cosmology
2005-09-09. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 012200681X ISBN : 012200681x 9780122006814
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David Rubenstein PhD. Biomedical Engineering Stony Brook University h. D.
Biofluid Mechanics Second Edition: An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics Macrocirculation and Microcirculation Biomedical Engineering
2015-03-04. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 0128009446 ISBN : 0128009446 9780128009444
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Mirjana Dalarsson MSc Engineering Physics 1984brLicentiate Engineering Physics 1989
Tensors Relativity and Cosmology Second Edition
2015-09-07. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 0128033975 ISBN : 0128033975 9780128033975
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Hawkins N. Nehemiah ME. M. E.
Hawkins' Indicator Catechism A Practical Treatise for the Use of Erecting and Operating Engineers Superintendents Students of Steam Engineering etc.
New york City NY: Theo. Audel & Co. Near Fine. 1903. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Includes chapters: Preparing Indicator for Use Reducing Motions Piping Up Indicator Taking Indicator Cards The Diagrams Figuring Steam Consumption by the Diagram Revolution Counters Examples of Diagrams Indicating Air Compressors Description of Indicators etc. "Hawkins' Indicator Catechism of which this is a newly copyrighted edition has been before the public for a space of five years during which time it has attained a considerable sale and has given satisfaction to its purchasers; it has proved its value in building up the studen in a sound knowledge of principles and in the details of indicator practice already thoroughly established." "Nehemiah Hawkins 1833 � January 15 1928 was an American inventor publisher and author pen name Theodore Audel born in Providence Rhode Island. He started working with the G&C Merriam Company of Springfield MA. In Chicago he established a magazine called Steam � soon sold and incorporated into Power � then moved to New York. He was survived by a son and two daughters. He wrote or commissioned and published under his own name many of the popular Audel's Guidespopular with engineers and craftsmen and published by Theodore Audel & Company of New York. He sometimes used the pseudonym William Rogers6 a likely reference to Roger Williams." . Theo. Audel & Co. hardcover
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Team Citrix Engineering
Citrix Access Security for IT Administrators
McGraw-Hill Education. PAPERBACK. 0071485430 BRAND NEW GIFT QUALITY! NOT OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER!VCF . New. McGraw-Hill Education paperback
Bookseller reference : OTF-Y-9780071485432 ISBN : 0071485430 9780071485432
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Engineering Co. Grumman Aircraft
LEM Lunar Excursion Module Familiarization Manual
Periscope Film LLC. PAPERBACK. 1935700669 BRAND NEW GIFT QUALITY! NOT OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER!VCF . New. Periscope Film LLC paperback
Bookseller reference : OTF-Y-9781935700661 ISBN : 1935700669 9781935700661
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Department RSMeans Engineering
RSMeans Open Shop BCCD 2014 RSMeans Open Shop Building Construction Cost Data
RS Means. PAPERBACK. 1940238145 US Edition Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Emailed Tracking from USA . Good. RS Means paperback
Bookseller reference : Z1940238145Z3 ISBN : 1940238145 9781940238142
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National Research Council; Policy and Global Affairs; Committee on Women in Science and Engineering; Panel for the Study of Gend
From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineer
National Academies Press 2001-11-16. Paperback. New. Brand New Crisp and Clean National Academies Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 19262 ISBN : 0309055806 9780309055802
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NYSTROM ERIC C
Seeing Underground: Maps Models And Mining Engineering In America
University of Nevada Press Reno: 2014. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Digging mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War little mining was deep enough to require maps. However the major finds of the mid-nineteenth century such as the Comstock Lode were vastly larger than any before in America. In Seeing Underground Nystrom argues that as industrial mining came of age in the United States the development of maps and models gave power to a new visual culture and allowed mining engineers to advance their profession gaining authority over mining operations from the miners themselves. Starting in the late nineteenth century mining engineers developed a new set of practices artifacts and discourses to visualize complex pitch-dark three-dimensional spaces. These maps and models became necessary tools in creating and controlling those spaces. They made mining more understandable predictable and profitable. Nystrom shows that this new visual culture was crucial to specific developments in American mining such as implementing new safety regulations after the Avondale Pennsylvania fire of 1869 killed 110 men and boys; understanding complex geology as in the rich ores of Butte Montana; and settling high-stakes litigation such as the Tonopah Nevada Jim Butler v. West End lawsuit which reached the US Supreme Court. Nystrom demonstrates that these neglected artifacts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have much to teach us today. The development of a visual culture helped create a new professional class of mining engineers and changed how mining was done. Eric C. Nystrom is associate professor of history at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the editor of Mining History News and the author of "Underground Photography and American Mining Before 1920" which won the 2010 John Townley Award for best journal article from the Mining History Association. "No previous historian has attempted anything like Nystrom's study. This book will be the standard reference for information on the history of mine mapping for years to come." -- Terry Reynolds professor of history emeritus at Michigan Technological University "There are no other works that explore maps and models and their relationship with the industrialization of mining -- it is a significant contribution." -- David Wolff Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Black Hills State University University of Nevada Press, Reno: 2014 hardcover
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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
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PETROSKI HENRY
To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure
Harvard University Press Cambridge Massachusetts and London England: 2014. Softcover. 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: 2014 paperback
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Spindler W. H. editor
Handbook of Drainage and Construction Products
Armco. Very Good. 1955. Hardcover. Very good binding Clean text. 579 pages. 11 chapters. Outer boards have sunning. Illustrated with numerous photographs figures charts and drawings. Includes Strength Research and Design Durability Studies and Design Economics Drainage problems Installation Instructions etc. ; . Armco hardcover
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Staff of Engineering Research Associates Inc.
HIGH-SPEED DEVICES.
McGraw-Hill: 1950. 451 pages. "This timely book acquaints the reader with various mathematical methods and the physical mechanisms which have been developed for use in automatic computation. Straightforward in its approach the material presented has been confined to methods which already exist or which seem liekly to be available shortly." Supervised by C. B. Tompkins J. H. Wakelin and edited by W. W. Stifler Jr. FINE HARDCOVER GOOD DUST JACKET. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. McGraw-Hill: Hardcover
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Engineering and Management Pre Industrial Engineering & Management Pres
Beyond the Basics of Reengineering: Survival Tactics for the 90's
Inst of Industrial Engineers. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support the African Children's Educational Trust A-CET. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Through our work with A-CET we have helped give hundreds of young people in Africa the vital chance to get an education. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Inst of Industrial Engineers unknown
Bookseller reference : Z1-M-003-00839 ISBN : 0898061385 9780898061383
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Chemical Engineering
The Market for Liquid Gas and Air Handling Equipment in the Chemical Process Industries.
McGraw-Hill 1963. Paperback. Good. McGraw-Hill 1963. Good. Paperback Oblong paperback. 193 pages. Pages clean tight. Small mended tear in cover. Ink name in margin of front cover. Faint spotting on cover and edges. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care. McGraw-Hill paperback
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EAI Engineering Animation Incorporated Staff
Atlas of Digital Human Anatomy
Mosby 1997-09-01. Textbook Binding. Used:Good. Mosby unknown
Bookseller reference : DADAX0815186568 ISBN : 0815186568 9780815186564
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Institution of Engineering and Technology G. W. Irwin Editor K. Warwick Editor K. J. Hunt Editor
Neural Network Applications in Control I E E Control Engineering Series
Institution of Engineering and Technology 1995-12-01. Hardcover. Used:Good. Institution of Engineering and Technology hardcover
Bookseller reference : DADAX0852968523 ISBN : 0852968523 9780852968529
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Dale Ila Miles Riggs Editor Agriculture and Engineering Service Cooperative Extension Natural Resource Corporate Author
Pumpkin Production Guide Nraes Series.
Northeast Regional 2002-12-01. Spiral-bound. Used:Good. Northeast Regional unknown
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Committee on Engineering as an International Enterprise National Academy of Engineering Thomas H. Lee Editor Proctor P. Reid
National Interests in an Age of Global Technology <i>Prospering in a Global Economy:</i> A Series
National Academies Press 1991-01-01. Paperback. Used:Good. National Academies Press paperback
Bookseller reference : DADAX0309043298 ISBN : 0309043298 9780309043298
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Timothy J. Ward Editor American Society of Civil Engineers Water Resources Engineering divisi Corporate Author
Watershed Management: Planning for the 21st Century : San Antonio Texas August 14-16 1995 : Proceedings of the Symposium Sponsored by the Watershed Management Committee
Amer Society of Civil Engineers 1995-08-01. Paperback. Used:Good. Amer Society of Civil Engineers paperback
Bookseller reference : DADAX0784401020 ISBN : 0784401020 9780784401026
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Michael W. Grutzeck Engineering Foundation U. S. Shondeep L. Sarkar Shondeep L. Sarkar Editor Engineering Foundation Corpora
Advances in Cement and Concrete: Proceedings of an Engineering Foundation Conference July 24-29 1994 New England Center University of New Hampshir
Amer Society of Civil Engineers 1994-07-01. Paperback. Used:Good. Amer Society of Civil Engineers paperback
Bookseller reference : DADAX0784400342 ISBN : 0784400342 9780784400340
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Radisav D. Vidic Editor Frederick G. Pohland Editor American Society of Civil Engineers Environmental Engineering Divison Corp
Innovative Technologies for Site Remediation and Hazardous Waste Management: Proceedings of the National Conference Pittsburgh July 23-26 1995
Amer Society of Civil Engineers 1995-07-01. Paperback. Used:Good. Amer Society of Civil Engineers paperback
Bookseller reference : DADAX0784400954 ISBN : 0784400954 9780784400951
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Asce Csce National Conference on Environmental Engineering Gary C. Schafran Editor
Environmental Engineering 1999: Proceedings of the Asce-Csce National Conference on Environmental Engineering July 25-28 1999 Norfolk Virginia
Amer Society of Civil Engineers 1999-07-01. Paperback. Used:Good. Amer Society of Civil Engineers paperback
Bookseller reference : DADAX0784404356 ISBN : 0784404356 9780784404355
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Ill. National Conference on Environmental Engineering 1998 Chicago Thomas E. Wilson American Society of Civil Engineers Enviro
Water Resources and the Urban Environment-98: Proceedings of the 1998 National Conference on Environmental Engineering June 7-10 1998 Chicago Illinois
Amer Society of Civil Engineers 1998-05-01. Paperback. Used:Good. Amer Society of Civil Engineers paperback
Bookseller reference : DADAX078440349X ISBN : 078440349X 9780784403495
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Tex. National Congress on Civil Engineering Education 2001 Houston Donn E. Hancher Donn E. Hancher Editor American Society of
Civil Engineering Education Issues 2001: Proceedings of the Third National Congress on Civil Engineering Education October 10-13 2001 Houston Texas
Amer Society of Civil Engineers 2001-08-01. Paperback. Used:Good. Amer Society of Civil Engineers paperback
Bookseller reference : DADAX0784405905 ISBN : 0784405905 9780784405901
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Steering Committee on Product Liability and Innovation National Academy of Engineering Janet R. Hunziker Editor Trevor O. Jon
Product Liability and Innovation: Managing Risk in an Uncertain Environment
National Academies Press 1994-01-01. Hardcover. Used:Good. National Academies Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : DADAX0309051304 ISBN : 0309051304 9780309051309
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Andrews J. G. & R. R. McLone
Mathematical Modeling
London: Butterworth. Near Fine. 1976. Trade paperback. 0408106018 . Binding sound and tight without spine crease. Cover has minimal wear. Pages clean and unmarked other than previous owner's name stamp on top edge of text block and on first page. Not a former library book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 260 pages . Butterworth paperback
Bookseller reference : 15137 ISBN : 0408106018 9780408106016
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Samaras Demetrios G.
Theory of Ion Flow Dynamics
Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth cover has minimal wear at edges. Binding sound. Previous owner's name on top of text block and on front free endpaper pages otherwise unmarked. Lacking DJ. Not a former library book. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 635 pages . Prentice-Hall hardcover
Bookseller reference : 15145
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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING May 1941 Function of the Design Engineer
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 1941. Single Issue Magazine. Good. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING unknown
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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING April 1941 Inland Ocean Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Seaway
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 1941. Single Issue Magazine. Good. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING unknown
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Pa. Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering 1997 Philadelphia Teresa M. Adams Editor American Society of Civil Engineers. T
Computing in Civil Engineering: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress Held in Conjunction With A/E/C Systems '97 : Philadelphia Pennsylvania June 16-18 1997
Amer Society of Civil Engineers 1997-06-01. Paperback. Used:Good. Amer Society of Civil Engineers paperback
Bookseller reference : DADAX0784402507 ISBN : 0784402507 9780784402504
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Industrial & Engineering Chemistry
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry May 1925
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 1925. Single Issue Magazine. Good. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry unknown
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Industrial & Engineering Chemistry
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry April 1925
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 1925. Single Issue Magazine. Good. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry unknown
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Industrial & Engineering Chemistry
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry September 1924
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 1924. Single Issue Magazine. Good. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry unknown
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Industrial & Engineering Chemistry
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry January 1925
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 1925. Single Issue Magazine. Good. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry unknown
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Industrial & Engineering Chemistry
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry March 1925
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 1925. Single Issue Magazine. Good. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry unknown
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Industrial & Engineering Chemistry
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry November 1924
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 1924. Single Issue Magazine. Good. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry unknown
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Industrial & Engineering Chemistry
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry October 1924
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 1924. Single Issue Magazine. Good. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry unknown
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Industrial & Engineering Chemistry
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry February 1924
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 1924. Single Issue Magazine. Good. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry unknown
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MEIKSINS PETER & SMITH CHRIS WITH BERNER BOEL; CRAWFORD STEPHEN; GISPEN KEES; MCCORMICK KEVIN & WHALLEY PETER
Engineering Labour: Technical Workers In Comparative Perspective
Verso London/New York: 1996. Softcover. Very good condition. Engineers often perceived as central agents of industrial capitalism are thought to be the same in all capitalist societies occupying roughly the same social status and performing similar functions in the capitalist enterprise. What the essays in this volume reveal however is that engineers are trained and organized quite distinctly in different national contexts. The book includes case studies of engineers in six major industrial economies: Japan France Germany Sweden Great Britain and the United States. Through a comparison of these six cases the authors develop an approach to national differences which both retains the place of historical diversity in the experience of capitalism and accomodates the forces of convergence from increasing globalization and economic integration. Includes an Index. ISBN: 185984135X. Verso, London/New York: 1996 paperback
Bookseller reference : 70392X1 ISBN : 185984135X 9781859841358
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MAGG DR. ING. JULIUS
Dieselmaschinen: Grundlagen Bauarten Probleme
VDI-Verlag G.M.B.H. Berlin: 1928. Hardcover no dustjacket. Good condition considering its age. Covers are worn and stained. German Text. VDI-Verlag G.M.B.H., Berlin: 1928 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 63940X1
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FRENCH THOMAS E.; VIERCK CHARLES J
A Manual Of Engineering Drawing For Students And Draftsmen
McGraw-Hill Book Company New York: 1953. Hardcover no dustjacket. Fair condition. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York: 1953 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 15906X1
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WOOLDRIDGE DEAN E
Mechanical Man: The Physical Basis Of Intelligent Life
McGraw-Hill New York: 1968. Softcover. Reading copy. Water stain on top edge. ISBN: 0070718458. McGraw-Hill, New York: 1968 paperback
Bookseller reference : 32181X1 ISBN : 0070718458 9780070718456
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