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Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering
by Henry Petroski
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 1400040515
- ISBN 13
- 9781400040513
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Gilt lettering on blue & white covers in a white pictorial dust jacket. 8vo, 304pp. Remainder dot on the bottom edge.
Synopsis
Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. The author of eleven previous books, he lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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- Bookseller
- NWJBOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011042
- Title
- Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering
- Author
- Henry Petroski
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1400040515
- ISBN 13
- 9781400040513
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 304
- Keywords
- nonfiction; design; engineering
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