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Interviews | December 15, 2009

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    The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to Be as They Are.

    Henry Petroski / Vintage Books USA
    Used Trade Paper  /  Engineering - General Engineering
    $8.00

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    To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design

    Henry Petroski / Vintage Books USA
    Used Trade Paper  /  Architecture - Structure
    $9.50

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    The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance

    Henry Petroski / Alfred A. Knopf
    Used Trade Paper  /  Art - Design History
    $6.95

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    Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing

    Henry Petroski / Harvard University Press
    Used Trade Paper  /  Architecture - Structure
    $12.95

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    The Toothpick: Technology and Culture

    Henry Petroski / Knopf Publishing Group
    Used Hardcover  /  History of Science - Technology
    $18.50

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    The Book on the Bookshelf

    Henry Petroski / Vintage Books USA
    New Trade Paper  /  Literary Criticism - General
    $14.95

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    Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering

    Henry Petroski / Cambridge University Press
    New Trade Paper  /  Engineering - General Engineering
    $35.99

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    Evolution of Useful Things

    Henry Petroski / Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
    Used Hardcover  /  History of Science - Technology
    $6.50

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    Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design

    Henry Petroski / Vintage Books USA
    Used Trade Paper  /  History of Science - Technology
    $6.00

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    Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering

    Henry Petroski / Vintage Books USA
    Used Trade Paper  /  Science Reference - General
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    Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America

    Henry Petroski / Vintage Books USA
    Used Trade Paper  /  Architecture - Types
    $8.95

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    Pencil

    Henry Petroski / Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
    Used Hardcover  /  Art - Design History
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    Church Insurance Simplified

    Peter Petroski / Lulu Press, Inc.
    New Trade Paper  /  Economics - General
    $14.75

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    Red and Yellow Boat: Poems

    Anthony Petrosky / Louisiana State University Press
    Used Trade Paper  /  Poetry - A to Z
    $2.50

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    The Wine Club: A Month-By-Month Guide to Learning about Wine with Friends

    Maureen Ch Petrosky / Meredith Books
    Used Trade Paper  /  Cooking and Food - Wine General
    $12.50

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    Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design

    Henry Petroski / Princeton University Press
    Sale Trade Paper  /  History of Science - Technology
    $14.95

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    Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer

    Henry Petroski / Vintage Books USA
    Used Trade Paper  /  History of Science - Technology
    $9.50

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    The Toothpick: Technology and Culture (Vintage)

    Henry Petroski / Vintage Books USA
    New Trade Paper  /  History of Science - Technology
    $15.95

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    Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering

    Henry Petroski / Vintage Books USA
    Used Trade Paper  /  History of Science - Technology
    $8.95

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    ACS Symposium #906: Semiochemicals in Pest and Weed Control

    Richard J. Petroski / American Chemical Society
    New Hardcover  /  Chemistry - Organic
    $115.95

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    The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems

    Henry Petroski / Knopf Publishing Group
    New Hardcover  /  Science Reference - Essays
    $26.95

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    The Toothpick

    Henry Petroski / Knopf Publishing Group
    Adobe Digital Editions Electronic  /  Adobe Digital Editions - Art
    $14.16 $15.95

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    Pencil (UK Edition)

    Henry Petroski / FABER AND FABER
    New Mass Market  /  Art - Style and Design
    $25.00

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    A Bride's Passage: Susan Hathorn's Year Under Sail

    Catherine Petroski / Northeastern University Press
    Used Trade Paper  /  Nautical - Nautical Lore
    $4.40

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    Secondary-metabolite biosynthesis and metabolism

    Richard J. Petroski / Plenum Press,c1992.
    New Hardcover  /  Biology - General
    $249.95

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