Small Things Considered Download

Author: Henry Petroski
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1400040507

Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design

Henry Petroski, "America's poet laureate of technology" (Kirkus Reviews)-author of The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things-now gives us an entertaining and perceptive study of design in everyday life, while revealing the checkered pasts, and some possible futures, of familiar objects. Download Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. br>
Chairs, lightbulbs, cup holders, toothbrushes, doorknobs, light switches, potato peelers, paper bags, duct tape-as ubiquitous as these may be, they are still works in progress. The design of such ordinary items demonstrates the simple brilliance of human creativity, while at the same time showing the frustration of getting anything completely right. Nothing's perfect, and so the quest for perfection continues to continue.

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