Paperboy - Confessions of a Future Engineer
by Henry Petroski
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375413537
- ISBN 13
- 9780375413537
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About This Item
NY: Knopf, 2002. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 364 pages, in a bright dust jacket. Henry Petroski has been called 'the poet laureate of technology.' He is one of the most eloquent and inquisitive science and engineering writers of our time, illuminating with new clarity such familiar objects as pencils, books, and bridges. In Paperboy, he turns his intellectual curiosity inward, on his own past. Petroski grew up in the Cambria Heights section of New York City's borough of Queens during the 1950s, in the midst of a close and loving family. Educated at local Catholic schools, he worked as a delivery boy for the Long Island Press. The job taught him lessons about diligence, labor, commitment, and community-mindedness, lessons that this successful student could not learn at school. From his vantage point as a professor, engineer, and writer, Petroski reflects fondly on these lessons, and on his near-idyllic boyhood. Record # 383936
Synopsis
Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of nine previous books.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 383936
- Title
- Paperboy - Confessions of a Future Engineer
- Author
- Henry Petroski
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0375413537
- ISBN 13
- 9780375413537
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Biography, Technology, , .
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