Essential Engineer, The: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
by Petroski, Henry
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- vg- /vg-
- ISBN 10
- 0307272451
- ISBN 13
- 9780307272454
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- The Old Library Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 185971
- Title
- Essential Engineer, The: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
- Author
- Petroski, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg-
- Jacket Condition
- vg-
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0307272451
- ISBN 13
- 9780307272454
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- Nature-Ecology, Science/Eng.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poli Sci / Gov't / Current Affairs;
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