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.
"Reading Petroski's fine book is not only a delight, it is a
necessity." --Houston Chronicle
"Serious, amusing, probing, sometimes frightening, and always
literate." --Los Angeles Times
"Reading Petroski's fine book is not only a delight, it is a
necessity." --Houston Chronicle
"Serious, amusing, probing, sometimes frightening, and
always literate." --Los Angeles Times
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