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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Petroski, Henry.
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Technological innovations -- Popular works.
Engineering -- Popular works.
Technology and civilization -- Popular works.
Research -- Popular works.
Problem solving -- Popular works.
Science -- Popular works.
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The essential engine...
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The essential engineer : why science alone will not solve our global problems / Henry Petroski.
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Petroski, Henry.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Subjects
Technological innovations -- Popular works.
Engineering -- Popular works.
Technology and civilization -- Popular works.
Research -- Popular works.
Problem solving -- Popular works.
Science -- Popular works.
ISBN:
9780307272454 :
0307272451
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x, 274 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
Ubiquitous risk -- Engineering is rocket science -- Doctors and Dilberts -- Which comes first? -- Einstein the inventor -- Speed bumps -- Research and development -- Development and research -- Alternative energies -- Complex systems -- Two cultures -- Uncertain science and engineering -- Great achievements and grand challenges -- Prizing engineering.
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Business, Science & Technology
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