To engineer is human : (Record no. 5169)
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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 978-0-679-73416-1 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 23 |
| Classification number | 620.0042 |
| Item number | PET |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Petroski Henry |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | To engineer is human : |
| Remainder of title | The role of failure in successful design / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Henry Petroski. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Remainder of edition statement | 1992. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York. |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Vintage books; |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1992. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 251 p . ; |
| Other physical details | softbound |
| Dimensions | 13x21cm |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | 1. Being human<br/>2. Falling down is part of growing up<br/>3. Lessons from play;lessons from life appendix: "The deacon's masterpiece'" by Oliver Wendell Holmes<br/>4. Engineering as hypothesis<br/>5. Success is foreseeing failure<br/>6. Design is getting from here to there<br/>7. Design as revision<br/>8. Accidents waiting to happen<br/>9. Safety in numbers<br/>10. When cracks become breakthroughs<br/>11. Of bus frames and knife blades<br/>12. Interlude: The success story of the crystal palace<br/>13. The ups and downs of bridges<br/>14. Forensic engineering and engineering fiction<br/>15. From slide rule to computer: Forgetting how it used to be done<br/>16. Connoisseurs of chaos<br/>17. The limits of design <br/><br/> |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | Tetso College Library | Tetso College Library | Science and Technology | 04/10/2018 | 799.00 | 620.0042 PET | 8649 | 04/10/2018 | 04/10/2018 | Books |