Henry Petroski

Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. The author of more than a dozen previous books, he lives in Durham, North Carolina, and Arrowsic, Maine.

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To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
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The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
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Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design
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