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Small Things Considered eBook

Why There Is No Perfect Design

de Henry Petroski
idioma: inglês
Editor: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, dezembro de 2007 ‧
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Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? What circuitous chain of improvements led to such innovations as the automobile cup holder and the swiveling vegetable peeler? With the same relentless curiosity and lucid, witty prose he brought to his earlier books, Henry Petroski looks at some of our most familiar objects and reveals that they are, in fact, works in progress. For there can never be an end to the quest for the perfect design.

To illustrate his thesis, Petroski tells the story of the paper drinking cup, which owes its popularity to the discovery that water glasses could carry germs. He pays tribute to the little plastic tripod that keeps pizza from sticking to the box and analyzes the numerical layouts of telephones and handheld calculators. Small Things Considered is Petroski at his most trenchant and provocative, casting his eye not only on everyday artifacts but on their users as well.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Small Things Considered

Why There Is No Perfect Design

de Henry Petroski

Propriedade Descrição
ISBN: 9780307427809
Editor: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Data de Lançamento: dezembro de 2007
Idioma: Inglês
Tipo de produto: eBook
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Classificação Temática: eBooks em Inglês > Literatura > Ficção Científica
EAN: 9780307427809
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