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To Engineer Is Human
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To Forgive Design
- Understanding Failure
- By: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4 out of 5 stars 32
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....
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4 out of 5 stars
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I love the author, the reader of this book though...
- By Don Wright on 12-04-18
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To Forgive Design
- Understanding Failure
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 05-12-14
- Language: English
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To Engineer Is Human
- The Role of Failure in Successful Design
- By: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 127
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 106
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Story4 out of 5 stars 104
More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer Is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great For Understanding How Things Fail
- By Anonymous User on 07-07-21
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To Engineer Is Human
- The Role of Failure in Successful Design
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 03-27-18
- Language: English
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The Road Taken
- The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
- By: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
Acclaimed historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from historical and contemporary perspectives and explains how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well put
- By Lawrence on 08-10-17
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The Road Taken
- The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 07-14-16
- Language: English
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The Essential Engineer
- Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
- By: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4 out of 5 stars 34
The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our worlds most pressing issues....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Awesome
- By Dheepan on 07-01-16
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The Essential Engineer
- Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 02-23-10
- Language: English
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The Book on the Bookshelf
- By: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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....
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The Book on the Bookshelf
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-17-23
- Language: English
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Force
- What It Means to Push and Pull, Slip and Grip, Start and Stop
- By: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5
Force explores how humans interact with the material world in the course of their everyday activities. Henry Petroski draws from a variety of disciplines to make the case that force—represented especially by our sense of touch—is a unifying principle that pervades our lives....
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