Name: Small Things Considered: Why There is no Perfect Design (en Inglés)
Price: 18340.00 CLP
Availability: InStock
Author: Henry Petroski
ISBN: 9781400032938

portada Small Things Considered: Why There is no Perfect Design (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Vintage Books

Autor

Henry Petroski

Año

2004

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

1400032938

ISBN13

9781400032938

N° edición

Categorías

Ingeniería mecánica

Small Things Considered: Why There is no Perfect Design (en Inglés)

Henry Petroski (Autor) · Vintage Books · Tapa Blanda

Libro Nuevo

$ 18.340

$ 36.670

Ahorras: $ 18.330

50% descuento

Envío normal

Origen: Reino Unido (Costos de importación incluídos en el precio)

Se enviará desde nuestra bodega entre el Miércoles 08 de Mayo y el Lunes 13 de Mayo.

Lo recibirás en cualquier lugar de Chile entre 1 y 3 días hábiles luego del envío.

Reseña del libro "Small Things Considered: Why There is no Perfect Design (en Inglés)"

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.