Henry Petroski

Author of The Book on the Bookshelf

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Title	Copies	Reviews	Ratings	Average	Median	Std. dev.
The Book on the Bookshelf	1,619	26	206	3.82	4.00	0.83
The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They	896	7	87	3.68	4.00	0.80
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design	708	9	72	3.50	3.50	1.01
The Pencil; A History of Design and Circumstance	425	6	43	3.51	3.50	0.99
Seeing Further	336	4	34	3.81	3.75	0.89
Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design	287	2	25	3.34	3.00	0.85
Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering	174		16	3.63	3.50	0.74
Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing	222	1	14	3.75	4.00	1.33
Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering	87	1	9	3.56	4.00	0.80
The Toothpick: Technology and Culture	80	2	9	3.44	4.00	1.17
Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering	86	4	8	4.25	4.50	0.66
Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer	88	1	8	3.81	4.00	0.90
Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America	131		7	4.14	4.00	0.64
Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design	90	3	7	3.29	3.00	0.70
The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems	62	1	4	3.25	3.50	0.83
Beyond Engineering: Essays and Other Attempts to Figure Without Equations	17		3	2.67	3.00	0.47
To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure	11		1	1.00	1.00
An Engineer's Alphabet: Gleanings from the Softer Side of a Profession	4		1	3.00	3.00
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