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

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



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ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161
Format: djvu
Publisher: Vintage
Page: 269


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