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To Engineer Is Human
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 31, 1992
Price: $14.95
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 31, 1992
Price: $14.95
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The Evolution of Useful Things
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1994
Price: $14.95
Petroski tells fascinating stories about the arduous processes that resulted in paper clips, Post-its, Phillips-head screwdrivers, Scotch tape, and fast-food "clamshell" containers. "Petroski . . . an examines the simplest . . . tools in our lives with an appraising eye."--Washington Post Book World. 45 illus. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1994
Price: $14.95
Petroski tells fascinating stories about the arduous processes that resulted in paper clips, Post-its, Phillips-head screwdrivers, Scotch tape, and fast-food "clamshell" containers. "Petroski . . . an examines the simplest . . . tools in our lives with an appraising eye."--Washington Post Book World. 45 illus. Read more >
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The Toothpick
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $15.95
A celebration culture and technology, as seen through the history of the humble yet ubiquitous toothpick, from the best-selling author of The Pencil.
From ancient Rome, where emperor Nero made his entrance into a banquet hall with a silver toothpick in his mouth, to nineteenth-century Boston, where Charles Forster, the father of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $15.95
A celebration culture and technology, as seen through the history of the humble yet ubiquitous toothpick, from the best-selling author of The Pencil.
From ancient Rome, where emperor Nero made his entrance into a banquet hall with a silver toothpick in his mouth, to nineteenth-century Boston, where Charles Forster, the father of... Read more >
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The Pencil
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 10, 1992
Price: $20.00
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. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 10, 1992
Price: $20.00
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. Read more >
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Remaking the World
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $14.95
Science/Engineering
"Petroski has an inquisitive mind, and he is a fine writer. . . . [He] takes us on a lively tour of engineers, their creations and their necessary turns of mind." --Los Angeles Times
From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats of engineering have changed our environment in countless ways... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $14.95
Science/Engineering
"Petroski has an inquisitive mind, and he is a fine writer. . . . [He] takes us on a lively tour of engineers, their creations and their necessary turns of mind." --Los Angeles Times
From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats of engineering have changed our environment in countless ways... Read more >
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The Book on the Bookshelf
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $14.95
From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage.
Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $14.95
From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage.
Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious... Read more >
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Pushing the Limits
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $14.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $14.95
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... Read more >
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eBook.
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Small Things Considered
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.95
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Engineers of Dreams
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 29, 1996
Price: $16.95
Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who built the St. Louis, the George Washington... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 29, 1996
Price: $16.95
Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who built the St. Louis, the George Washington... Read more >
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Paperboy
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $14.00
Anyone wondering what sort of experience prepares one for a future as an engineer may be surprised to learn that it includes delivering newspapers. But as Henry Petroski recounts his youth in 1950s Queens, New York–a borough of handball games and inexplicably numbered streets–he winningly shows how his after-school job amounted... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $14.00
Anyone wondering what sort of experience prepares one for a future as an engineer may be surprised to learn that it includes delivering newspapers. But as Henry Petroski recounts his youth in 1950s Queens, New York–a borough of handball games and inexplicably numbered streets–he winningly shows how his after-school job amounted... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Toothpick
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $27.95
Like The Pencil, Henry Petroski’s The Toothpick is a celebration of a humble yet elegant device. As old as mankind and as universal as eating, this useful and ubiquitous tool finally gets its due in this wide-ranging and compulsively readable book. Here is the unexpected story of the simplest of implements—whether... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $27.95
Like The Pencil, Henry Petroski’s The Toothpick is a celebration of a humble yet elegant device. As old as mankind and as universal as eating, this useful and ubiquitous tool finally gets its due in this wide-ranging and compulsively readable book. Here is the unexpected story of the simplest of implements—whether... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Essential Engineer
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 23, 2010
Price: $26.95
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 23, 2010
Price: $26.95
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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Paperboy
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
Henry petroski has been called “the poet laureate of technology.” He is one of the most eloquent and inquisitive science and engineering writers of our time, illuminating with new clarity such familiar objects as pencils, books, and bridges. In Paperboy, he turns his intellectual curiosity inward, on his own past.
Petroski grew... Read more >
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
Henry petroski has been called “the poet laureate of technology.” He is one of the most eloquent and inquisitive science and engineering writers of our time, illuminating with new clarity such familiar objects as pencils, books, and bridges. In Paperboy, he turns his intellectual curiosity inward, on his own past.
Petroski grew... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Pushing the Limits
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
In the ever increasing push for longer bridges, taller buildings, bigger stadiums, and grander projects of all kinds, engineers face new challenges that redefine our sense of both aesthetics and functionality. Pushing the Limits describes two dozen adventures in engineering that provide a fresh look at the past, a unique view... Read more >
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
In the ever increasing push for longer bridges, taller buildings, bigger stadiums, and grander projects of all kinds, engineers face new challenges that redefine our sense of both aesthetics and functionality. Pushing the Limits describes two dozen adventures in engineering that provide a fresh look at the past, a unique view... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Small Things Considered
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Henry Petroski, “America’s poet laureate of technology” (Kirkus Reviews)–author of The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things–now gives us an entertaining and perceptive study of design in everyday life, while revealing the checkered pasts, and some possible futures, of familiar objects.
Chairs, lightbulbs, cup holders, toothbrushes, doorknobs, light switches, potato peelers... Read more >
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Henry Petroski, “America’s poet laureate of technology” (Kirkus Reviews)–author of The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things–now gives us an entertaining and perceptive study of design in everyday life, while revealing the checkered pasts, and some possible futures, of familiar objects.
Chairs, lightbulbs, cup holders, toothbrushes, doorknobs, light switches, potato peelers... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Toothpick
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $15.95
A celebration culture and technology, as seen through the history of the humble yet ubiquitous toothpick, from the best-selling author of The Pencil.
From ancient Rome, where emperor Nero made his entrance into a banquet hall with a silver toothpick in his mouth, to nineteenth-century Boston, where Charles Forster, the father of... Read more >
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $15.95
A celebration culture and technology, as seen through the history of the humble yet ubiquitous toothpick, from the best-selling author of The Pencil.
From ancient Rome, where emperor Nero made his entrance into a banquet hall with a silver toothpick in his mouth, to nineteenth-century Boston, where Charles Forster, the father of... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
The Essential Engineer
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 23, 2010
Price: $26.95
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... Read more >
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 23, 2010
Price: $26.95
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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
The Essential Engineer
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 23, 2010
Price: $20.00
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... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 23, 2010
Price: $20.00
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... Read more >
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