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Advanced Engineering Mathematicsby Erwin KreyszigISBN 0471488852 (0-471-48885-2)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Advanced Engineering Mathematics'Book summary:This is Brand New Hardcover Edition! Textbook wrapped in Tip Top Condition. Ship from Multiple Locations from Asia Countries. Shipping should take from 3-4 business days within US, Canada, UK, Australia, Japan, and Singapore and other EU countries for ship with EXPEDITE. We do not ship to PO BOX, APO, FPO! Please leave your phone no. for quickly delivery [via]
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Advanced Engineering Mathematics: International Editionby Erwin KreyszigISBN 047133328X (0-471-33328-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Son Ltd
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Advanced Engineering Mathematics: Maple Computer Guideby Erwin KreyszigISBN 0471021407 (0-471-02140-7)
Hardcover, Wiley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Advanced Engineering Mathematics: Maple Computer Guide'Book summary:A revision of the market leader, Kreyszig is known for its comprehensive coverage, careful and correct mathematics, outstanding exercises, helpful worked examples, and self-contained subject-matter parts for maximum teaching flexibility. The new edition provides invitations - not requirements - to use technology, as well as new conceptual problems, and new projects that focus on writing and working in teams. [via]
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Hardcover, Wiley - Advanced Engineering Mathematics: Maple Computer Guide: ISBN 0471553808 (0-471-55380-8)
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Hardcover, Wiley - Advanced Engineering Mathematics: Maple Computer Guide: ISBN 0471862517 (0-471-86251-7)
Hardcover, Wiley - Advanced Engineering Mathematics: Maple Computer Guide: ISBN 0471021407 (0-471-02140-7)
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- Advanced Engineering Mathematics: Maple Computer Guide: ISBN 0471154962 (0-471-15496-2)
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The Ancient Engineersby Lyon Sprague De CampISBN 0345482875 (0-345-48287-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ancient Engineers'Book summary:A reasonably scholarly but nonetheless accessible history of the great engineering feats of the human race up to the Renaissance, including a great chapter on Oriental architecture, a topic often neglected by such surveys. [via]
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The Ancient Engineersby L. Sprague de CampISBN 0345320298 (0-345-32029-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ancient Engineers'Book summary:A reasonably scholarly but nonetheless accessible history of the great engineering feats of the human race up to the Renaissance, including a great chapter on Oriental architecture, a topic often neglected by such surveys. [via]
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Ancient Engineers: Technology and Invention from the Earliest Times to the Renaissanceby L. Sprague de CampISBN 0880294566 (0-88029-456-6)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Engineers: Technology and Invention from the Earliest Times to the Renaissance'Book summary:A reasonably scholarly but nonetheless accessible history of the great engineering feats of the human race up to the Renaissance, including a great chapter on Oriental architecture, a topic often neglected by such surveys. [via]
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The Book on the Bookshelfby Henry PetroskiISBN 0375706399 (0-375-70639-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book on the Bookshelf'Book summary:Consider the book. Though Goodnight Moon and Finnegans Wake differ considerably in content and intended audience, they do share some basic characteristics. They have pages, they're roughly the same shape, and whether in a bookstore, library, or private home, they are generally stored vertically on shelves. Indeed, this is so much the norm that in these days of high-tech printing presses and chain bookstores, it's easy to believe that the book, like the cockroach, remains much the same as it ever was. But as Henry Petroski makes abundantly clear in Book on the Bookshelf, books as we know them have had a long and complex evolution. Indeed, he takes us from the scroll to the codex to the hand-lettered illuminated texts that were so rare and valuable they were chained to lecterns to prevent theft. Along the way he provides plenty of amusing anecdotes about libraries (according to one possibly apocryphal account, the library at Alexandria borrowed the works of the great Greek authors from Athens, had them copied, and then sent the copies back, keeping the originals), book collectors, and the care of books.
Book-lover though he may be, however, Henry Petroski is, first and foremost, an engineer and so, in the end, it is the evolution of bookshelves even more than of books that fascinates him. Pigeonholes for scrolls, book presses containing thousands of chained volumes, rotating lecterns that allowed scholars to peruse more than one book at a time--these are just a few of the ingenious methods readers have devised over the centuries for storing their books: "in cabinets beneath the desks, on shelves in front of them, in triangular attic-like spaces formed under the back-to-back sloped surfaces of desktops or small tabletop lecterns that rested upon a horizontal surface." Placing books vertically on shelves, spines facing outward, is a fairly recent invention, it would seem. Well written as it is, if Book on the Bookshelf were only about books-as-furniture, it would have little appeal to the general reader. Petroski, however, uses this treatise on design to examine the very human motivations that lie behind it. From the example of Samuel Pepys, who refused to have more titles than his library could hold (about 3,000), to an appendix detailing all the ways people organize their collections (by sentimental value, by size, by color, and by price, to name a few of the more unconventional methods), Petroski peppers his account with enough human interest to keep his audience reading from cover to cover. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florenceby Ross KingISBN 0701169036 (0-7011-6903-6)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence'Book summary:Filippo Brunelleschi's design for the dome of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence remains one of the most towering achievements of Renaissance architecture. Completed in 1436, the dome remains a remarkable feat of design and engineering. Its span of more than 140 feet exceeds St Paul's in London and St Peter's in Rome, and even outdoes the Capitol in Washington, D.C., making it the largest dome ever constructed using bricks and mortar. The story of its creation and its brilliant but "hot-tempered" creator is told in Ross King's delightful Brunelleschi's Dome.
Both dome and architect offer King plenty of rich material. The story of the dome goes back to 1296, when work began on the cathedral, but it was only in 1420, when Brunelleschi won a competition over his bitter rival Lorenzo Ghiberti to design the daunting cupola, that work began in earnest. King weaves an engrossing tale from the political intrigue, personal jealousies, dramatic setbacks, and sheer inventive brilliance that led to the paranoid Filippo, "who was so proud of his inventions and so fearful of plagiarism," finally seeing his dome completed only months before his death. King argues that it was Brunelleschi's improvised brilliance in solving the problem of suspending the enormous cupola in bricks and mortar (painstakingly detailed with precise illustrations) that led him to "succeed in performing an engineering feat whose structural daring was without parallel." He tells a compelling, informed story, ranging from discussions of the construction of the bricks, mortar, and marble that made up the dome, to its subsequent use as a scientific instrument by the Florentine astronomer Paolo Toscanelli. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architectureby Ross KingISBN 0802713661 (0-8027-1366-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture'Book summary:Filippo Brunelleschi's design for the dome of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence remains one of the most towering achievements of Renaissance architecture. Completed in 1436, the dome remains a remarkable feat of design and engineering. Its span of more than 140 feet exceeds St Paul's in London and St Peter's in Rome, and even outdoes the Capitol in Washington, D.C., making it the largest dome ever constructed using bricks and mortar. The story of its creation and its brilliant but "hot-tempered" creator is told in Ross King's delightful Brunelleschi's Dome.
Both dome and architect offer King plenty of rich material. The story of the dome goes back to 1296, when work began on the cathedral, but it was only in 1420, when Brunelleschi won a competition over his bitter rival Lorenzo Ghiberti to design the daunting cupola, that work began in earnest. King weaves an engrossing tale from the political intrigue, personal jealousies, dramatic setbacks, and sheer inventive brilliance that led to the paranoid Filippo, "who was so proud of his inventions and so fearful of plagiarism," finally seeing his dome completed only months before his death. King argues that it was Brunelleschi's improvised brilliance in solving the problem of suspending the enormous cupola in bricks and mortar (painstakingly detailed with precise illustrations) that led him to "succeed in performing an engineering feat whose structural daring was without parallel." He tells a compelling, informed story, ranging from discussions of the construction of the bricks, mortar, and marble that made up the dome, to its subsequent use as a scientific instrument by the Florentine astronomer Paolo Toscanelli. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Builders: Marvels of EngineeringISBN 0870448366 (0-87044-836-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This BookBook summary:A dazzling tour of some of the tallest buildings, longest bridges, and highest dams throughout the world, this magnificent volume explores canals and tunnels, castles and cathedrals, temples and sports arenas from ancient times to the present. Over 400 full-color photos, period engravings, drawings, and diagrams. [via]
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Builders of the Ancient World: Marvels of Engineeringby National Geographic Society (U.S.)ISBN 0870445855 (0-87044-585-5)
Hardcover, The Society
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The Control of Natureby John McPheeISBN 0374522596 (0-374-52259-6)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Control of Nature'Book summary:Master how-it-works writer John McPhee has instructed his readers in the arcana of how oranges are commercially graded, how mountains form, how canoes are built and oceans crossed. In The Control of Nature he turns his attention once more to geology and the human struggle against nature. In one sketch, he explores the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' unrealized plan to divert the flow of the Mississippi River into a tributary, the Atchafalaya, for flood control; in another, he looks at the ingenious ways in which an Icelandic engineer saved a southern harbor on that island from being destroyed by a lava flow; in a third, he examines a complex scheme to protect Los Angeles from boulders ejected from mountains by compression and tectonic movement. As always, McPhee combines a deep knowledge of his subject with a narrative approach that is wholly accessible; you may not have thought you were interested in earthquakes and flood control, but he gently leads you to take a passionate concern in such matters. [via]
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The Design of Everyday Thingsby Donald A. NormanISBN 0262640376 (0-262-64037-6)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Design of Everyday Things'Book summary:Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans--from physical objects to computer programs to conceptual tools--must read this book, and it is an equally tremendous read for anyone who has to use anything created by another human. It could forever change how you experience and interact with your physical surroundings, open your eyes to the perversity of bad design and the desirability of good design, and raise your expectations about how things should be designed. [via]
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Engineering in the Ancient Worldby John G. LandelsISBN 0520041275 (0-520-04127-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Engineering in the Ancient World'Book summary:We are all aware of the great achievements o f Greeks and Romans in art, culture, philosophy, and regrett ably, war, but not so many of us know of their ability to cr eate remarkable machines. This book gives an insight into th eir engineering know-how. ' [via]
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Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of Americaby Henry Petroski, Edward KastenmeierISBN 0679760210 (0-679-76021-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America'Book summary:Henry Petroski's lyrical history of bridge builders in America is organized around five engineers: James Eads (inventor of the diving bell, which bridged Mississippi at St. Louis); Theodore Cooper (railroad bridge engineer and designer of the ill-fated Quebec Bridge); Gustav Lindenthal (Hell Gate Bridge, New York); Othmar Ammann (George Washington and Verrazano-Narrow bridges); and David Steinman (Mackinac bridge). Petroski's opening and closing chapters, "Imagine" and "Realize," remind us how a bridge starts out as a dream of engineering, but ends as a reality of compromise and maintenance. Edward Tenner says that "The profound contribution of Engineers of Dreams is to remind us that communication across generations may be the most important bridge of all." [via]
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The Evolution of Useful Thingsby Henry PetroskiISBN 0679740392 (0-679-74039-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Evolution of Useful Things'Book summary:This surprising book may appear to be about the simple things of life--forks, paper clips, zippers--but in fact it is a far-flung historical adventure on the evolution of common culture. To trace the fork's history, Duke University professor of civil engineering Henry Petroski travels from prehistoric times to Texas barbecue to Cardinal Richelieu to England's Industrial Revolution to the American Civil War--and beyond. Each item described offers a cultural history lesson, plus there's plenty of engineering detail for those so inclined. [via]
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The Existential Pleasures of Engineeringby Samuel C. FlormanISBN 0312141041 (0-312-14104-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Existential Pleasures of Engineering'Book summary:...clear, erudite, and occasionally eloquent, a useful read for engineers given to self-scrutiny and a stimulating one for the layman interested in the ancient schism between machines and men's souls. -- Time Magazine [via]
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Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamicsby Michael J. Moran, Howard N. ShapiroISBN 0471274712 (0-471-27471-2)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics'Book summary:Presents a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of the subject from the classical perspective to offer a problem-solving methodology that encourages systematic thinking. Noted for its treatment of the second law, this text clearly presents both theory and application. The presentation of chemical availability has been extended by a cutting- edge discussion of standard chemical availability. Design applications and problems have been updated to include economic considerations. Environmental topics have also been expanded and updated. The new version of Interactive Thermodynamics (IT) is a powerful windows-based software program that now includes equation-solver, printing, graphing, data retrival and simulation capabilities. [via]
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Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc - Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics: ISBN 0471539848 (0-471-53984-8)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc - Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynmaics: ISBN 0471895768 (0-471-89576-8)
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Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics: Si Versionby Michael J. Moran, Howard N. ShapiroISBN 0471979600 (0-471-97960-0)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics: Si Version'Book summary:Presents a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of the subject from the classical perspective to offer a problem-solving methodology that encourages systematic thinking. Noted for its treatment of the second law, this text clearly presents both theory and application. The presentation of chemical availability has been extended by a cutting- edge discussion of standard chemical availability. Design applications and problems have been updated to include economic considerations. Environmental topics have also been expanded and updated. The new version of Interactive Thermodynamics (IT) is a powerful windows-based software program that now includes equation-solver, printing, graphing, data retrival and simulation capabilities. [via]
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The Great Bridgeby David G. McCulloughISBN 0671212133 (0-671-21213-3)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Bridge'Book summary:In the 19th century, the Brooklyn Bridge was viewed as the greatest engineering feat of mankind. The Roeblings--father and son--toiled for decades, fighting competitors, corrupt politicians, and the laws of nature to fabricate a bridge which, after 100 years, still provides one of the major avenues of access to one of the world's busiest cities--as compared to many bridges built at the same time which collapsed within decades or even years. It is refreshing to read such a magnificent story of real architecture and engineering in an era where these words refer to tiny bits and bytes that inspire awe only in their abstract consequences, and not in their tangible physical magnificence. [via]
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridgeby David Willis McCulloughISBN 067145711X (0-671-45711-X)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge'Book summary:In the 19th century, the Brooklyn Bridge was viewed as the greatest engineering feat of mankind. The Roeblings--father and son--toiled for decades, fighting competitors, corrupt politicians, and the laws of nature to fabricate a bridge which, after 100 years, still provides one of the major avenues of access to one of the world's busiest cities--as compared to many bridges built at the same time which collapsed within decades or even years. It is refreshing to read such a magnificent story of real architecture and engineering in an era where these words refer to tiny bits and bytes that inspire awe only in their abstract consequences, and not in their tangible physical magnificence. [via]
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Invention by Designby Henry PetroskiISBN 0674463684 (0-674-46368-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invention by Design'Book summary: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 course of a river? How do the idiosyncrasies of individual engineers, companies, and communities leave their mark on projects from Velcro® to fax machines to waterworks?Invention by Design offers an insider's look at these political and cultural dimensions of design and development, production and construction.
Readers unfamiliar with engineering will find Petroski's enthusiasm contagious, whether the topic is the genesis of the Ziploc baggie or the averted collapse of Manhattan's sleekest skyscraper. And those who inhabit the world of engineering will discover insights to challenge their customary perspective, whether their work involves failure analysis, systems design, or public relations. Written with the flair that readers have come to expect from his books, Invention by Design reaffirms Petroski as the master explicator of the principles and processes that turn thoughts into the many things that define our made world.
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Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thingby Not AvailableISBN 060619696X (0-606-19696-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Materials Science and Engineering: An Introductionby William D. CallisterISBN 0471134597 (0-471-13459-7)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Microelectronic Circuitsby Adel S. Sedra, K.C. SmithISBN 0195142527 (0-19-514252-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Microelectronic Circuits'Book summary:In the Third Edition of their bestselling design-oriented treatment of discrete and integrated circuits, Sedra & Smith anticipate future trends in the teaching of core electronics to electrical and computer engineering students. A major reorganization of the material enables students to get to the heart of the subject much more quickly. And for instructors, the text--now divided into three parts--is more flexible than ever before, allowing maximum latitude in course design. It includes over 800 end-of-chapter problems covering all topics with a graded level of difficulty. Covered are the latest circuit technologies of BiCMOS and Gallium-Arsenide (GaAs), data converters, and memory. Material on power-supply design, filters, and oscillators has been expanded. [via]
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Microelectronic Circuits/International Editionby Adel S. SedraISBN 0195103696 (0-19-510369-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineeringby Frederick Phillips BrooksISBN 0201835959 (0-201-83595-9)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering'Book summary:Classic book on the human elements of software engineering. [via]
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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstanceby Henry PetroskiISBN 0679734155 (0-679-73415-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance'Book summary:Like most other human artifacts, the common pencil, made and sold today by the millions, has a long and complex history. Henry Petroski, who combines a talent for fine writing with a deep knowledge of engineering and technological history, examines the story of the pencil, considering it not only as a thing in itself, but also as an exemplar of all things that are designed and manufactured.
Petroski ranges widely in time, discussing the writing technologies of antiquity. But his story really begins in the early modern period, when, in 1565, a Swiss naturalist first described the properties of the mineral that became known as graphite. Petroski traces the evolution of the pencil through the Industrial Revolution, when machine manufacture replaced earlier handwork. Along the way, he looks at some of pencil making's great innovators--including Henry David Thoreau, the famed writer, who worked in his father's pencil factory, inventing techniques for grinding graphite and experimenting with blends of lead, clay, and other ingredients to yield pencils of varying hardness and darkness. Petroski closes with a look at how pencils are made today--a still-imperfect technology that may yet evolve with new advances in materials and design. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Psychology of Everyday Thingsby Donald A. NormanISBN 0465067093 (0-465-06709-3)
Hardcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Psychology of Everyday Things'Book summary:With the many recent advances in technology, it seems, there has followed a diminution of quality. Electronic books have several advantages over their print counterparts, for instance. But for the time being, they're hard to use and unattractive to boot. Computers, which are supposed to make our lives easier, are commonly sources of frustration and wasted time. Movies are wondrously chock-a-block with special effects--but someone forgot the story. And so on.
Donald Norman, a retired professor of cognitive science, is bothered to no end by the fact that grappling with unfriendly objects now takes up so many of our hours. Over the course of several books, of which The Psychology of Everyday Things was the first, he has railed against bad design. He scrutinizes a range of artifacts that are supposed to make our daily living a little easier, and he finds most of them wanting. Why, he asks, does a door need instructions that say "push" or "pull"? A well-designed object, he argues, is self-explanatory. But well-designed objects are increasingly rare, for the present culture places a higher value on aesthetics than utility, even with such items as cordless screwdrivers, dresser drawers, and kitchen cabinets. In their concern for creating "art," many designers don't seem to consider what people actually do with things. Such disregard, Norman suggests, leads to few objects being standardized: think of all the different kinds of unsynchronized clocks that lurk in microwave ovens, VCRs, coffee makers, and the like--and of all the different kinds of batteries needed to drive them. Why, he wonders, must we reset all those clocks whenever the power goes off? Some designer somewhere, he ventures, ought to develop a master clock that communicates with all other electric clocks in a home--one that, when reset, synchronizes its slave units.
You don't need to be especially interested in technological matters to enjoy Norman's arguments. The book's underlying question is aimed at a global audience: will the design of everyday things improve? If this entertaining and, yes, well-designed book changes even a few minds, perhaps it will. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineeringby Henry PetroskiISBN 0375700242 (0-375-70024-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering'Book summary:Engineers, Henry Petroski observes, are sometimes their own worst enemies, at least so far as communicating their work to the general public is concerned. Some engineers, of course, have been exceptions. One of the unlikely heroes of Petroski's Remaking the World, an entertaining foray into some of engineering's finest (and, on occasion, less exalted) moments, is Karl August Rudolf Steinmetz, who combined a great talent for design and engineering with a keenly practiced flair for self-promotion. Another is Washington Gale Ferris, the inventor of the Ferris wheel, who concocted several dangerous eyesores before arriving at the design familiar to amusement-park patrons.
Successful at explaining themselves or not, engineers are largely responsible for the world as we know it, and Petroski examines their work to discuss how good design and technology combine to produce the desired results. That combination involves much trial and error, and, as Petroski writes, "artifacts from paper clips to steamships evolve by removing some real or perceived failure of their ancestors to achieve unqualified success." Drawing on examples from past and present, Petroski offers an up-close view of how engineers do their work, and his history is full of surprises and pleasures. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Designby Henry PetroskiISBN 1400032938 (1-4000-3293-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design'Book summary:Henry Petroski, Americas poet laureate of technology (Kirkus Reviews)author of The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Thingsnow 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, paper bags, duct tapeas ubiquitous as these may be, they are still works in progress. The design of such ordinary items demonstrates the simple brilliance of human creativity, while at the same time showing the frustration of getting anything completely right. Nothings perfect, and so the quest for perfection continues to continue.
In this engrossing and insightful book, Petroski takes us inside the creative process by which common objects are invented and improved upon in pursuit of the ever-elusive perfect thing. He shows us, for instance, how the disposable paper cup became a popular commercial success only after the public learned that shared water glasses could carry germs; how it took years, an abundance of business panache, and many discarded modelsfrom cups that opened like paper bags to those that came with pleatsfor the inventor of the paper cup to arrive at what we now use and toss away without so much as a thought for its fascinating history.
A trenchant, surprising evaluation of why some designs succeed and others dont, Small Things Considered is also an utterly delightful study of human nature.
Henry Petroski, the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University, lives in Durham, North Carolina. He is the author of ten previous books. [via]More editions of Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design:
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Structures: Or, Why Things Don't Fall Downby J. E. GordonISBN 0306812835 (0-306-81283-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Structures: Or Why Things Dont Fall Down'Book summary:For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges dont collapse under eight lanes of traffic, how dams hold backor give way underthousands of gallons of water, or what principles guide the design of a skyscraper, a nightgown, or a kangaroo, this book will ease your anxiety and answer your questions. Structures: Or Why Things Dont Fall Down is an informal explanation of the basic forces that hold together the ordinary and essential things of this worldfrom buildings and bodies to flying aircraft and eggshells. In a style that combines wit, a masterful command of his subject, and an encyclopedic range of reference, J. E. Gordon strips engineering of its technical mathematics and communicates the theory behind the structures of a wide variety of materials.Chapters on How to Design a Worm and The Advantage of Being a Beam offer humorous insights into human and natural creation. For architects and engineers there are cogent explanations of the concepts of stress, shear, torsion, fracture, and compression, and chapters on safety design and the relationship of efficiency to aesthetics. If you are building a house, a sailboat, or a catapult, here is a handy tool for understanding the mechanics of joinery, floors, ceilings, hulls, mastsor flying buttresses. Without jargon or over-simplification, Structures surveys the nature of materials and gives sophisticated answers to the most naive questions, opening up the marvels of technology to anyone interested in the foundations of our everyday lives.[via]More editions of Structures: Or, Why Things Don't Fall Down:
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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Designby Henry PetroskiISBN 0679734163 (0-679-73416-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design'Book summary:The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Petroski covers many of the best known examples of well-intentioned but ultimately failed design in action -- the galloping Tacoma Narrows Bridge (which you've probably seen tossing cars willy-nilly in the famous black-and-white footage), the collapse of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel walkways -- and many lesser known but equally informative examples. The line of reasoning Petroski develops in this book were later formalized into his quasi-Darwinian model of technological evolution in The Evolution of Useful Things, but this book is arguably the more illuminating -- and defintely the more enjoyable -- of these two titles. Highly recommended. [via]
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Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics/Solutions Manualby Elliot R. Eisenberg, Ferdinand Pierre Beer, E. Russell JohnstonISBN 0070054193 (0-07-005419-3)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Staticsby Ferdinand Pierre Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Elliot R. EisenbergISBN 0079126375 (0-07-912637-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Education
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics'Book summary:The new 3rd SI editions of two of the most successful engineering texts ever published have undergone substantial change and revision. Ferdinand Beer and Russell Johnston have retained their clear writing style as well as the wealth of excellent problems and logical presentation of the theory. The accuracy of the theory, the problems and the artwork ensures that undergraduates will grasp the concepts essential for the remainder of their student and professional careers. The 3rd SI edition contains a new four-colour design, and the software that accompanies the text is completely new, containing interactive modules with animations of free-body diagrams, and quizzes to accompany every subject. [via]
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Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Staticsby Elliot R. Eisenberg, Ferdinand Pierre Beer, Russell E. Johnston, David F. MazurekISBN 0073212199 (0-07-321219-9)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Science Engineering
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics'Book summary:The new Eighth Edition of Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Beer/Johnston series. Continuing in the spirit of its successful previous editions, the Eighth Edition provides conceptually accurate and thorough coverage together with a significant addition of new problems, including biomechanics problems, and the most extensive media resources available. Text comes with an outstanding media package which includes, Hands on Mechanics, ARIS Homework Management System and YourOtherTeacher.Com [via]
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Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics and Dynamicsby Beer, E. Russell JohnstonISBN 0070042772 (0-07-004277-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics and Dynamics'Book summary:For the past forty years Beer and Johnston have been the uncontested leaders in the teaching of undergraduate engineering mechanics. Over the years their textbooks have introduced significant theoretical and pedagogical innovations in statics, dynamics, and mechanics of materials education. At the same time, their careful presentation of content, unmatched levels of accuracy, and attention to detail have made their texts the standard for excellence. The new Seventh Edition of Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics and Dynamics continues this tradition. [via]
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Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics and Dynamics (IBM Set)by Ferdinand P. Beer, E. Russell JohnstonISBN 007847129X (0-07-847129-X)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics and Dynamics/Book and Diskby Ferdinand P. Beer, E. Russell JohnstonISBN 0070799237 (0-07-079923-7)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics and Dynamics/Sold in 2 Different Versions, IBM (2909908) or Macintosh (2909909)by Elliot R. Eisenberg, Ferdinand Pierre Beer, E. Russell JohnstonISBN 0070053650 (0-07-005365-0)
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Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics/Sold in 2 Different Versions, IBM (2999529) or Macintosh (2999530)by Elliot Eisenberg, Ferdinand Pierre Beer, E. Russell JohnstonISBN 0070053677 (0-07-005367-7)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Way Things Workby David MacaulayISBN 0395428572 (0-395-42857-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way Things Work'Book summary:David Macaulay has made it his business to demystify science and technology for children (and certainly one or two surreptitious adults) with his worldwide bestseller, The New Way Things Work. Packed with information on the inner workings of everything from the World Wide Web to windmills, the remarkable and humorous book guides readers through the fundamental principles of machines. And now Macaulay and his trusty mammoth sidekick are back, ready to make science even more fun and comprehensible. The Way Things Work Kit is a hands-on, fully interactive kit, equipped with everything needed to perform over 50 activities, including the construction of 12 working models. A handy cardboard carrying case opens to reveal a guidebook, a CD-ROM with instructions on how to build your own pinball games, activity cards, and more than 100 basic components that fit together to make models from a balloon-powered car to a robot arm to a fairground ride. Children will be absorbed for hours as they learn about levers and hydraulics, winches and friction, inertia and pneumatics. Future engineers--not to mention just regular humans--couldn't have a better introduction to the way things work. (Ages 8 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Way Things Work: An Encyclopedia of Modern Technologyby RitchieISBN 0671226215 (0-671-22621-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Failby Mario Salvadori, Matthys Levy, Kevin WoestISBN 039331152X (0-393-31152-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail'Book summary:"Whatever goes up must come down" does not, fortunately, apply to most of the structures in today's world. In fact, whenever a building, a bridge, a tunnel, or a dam collapses nowadays, it is front page news and often the beginning of a hunt for clues and culprits as fascinating as any detective story. In this book, two of the world's premier structural engineers take us on a journey through the history of architectural and structural catastrophes, from the Parthenon and Rome's Coliseum to more recent disasters such as the Ronan Point Tower in London, the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City and the Malpasset Dam in France. This is a book that delights as it instructs, an easily digested feast of architectural flops and flummoxes, whether caused by natural disaster or human error, or both. [via]
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Why Buildings Stand Upby Mario SalvadoriISBN 0070544824 (0-07-054482-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architectureby Mario SalvadoriISBN 0393306763 (0-393-30676-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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