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Small Things Considered Why There Is No Perfect Design

Paperback • 2004 • English

Small Things Considered Why There Is No Perfect Design

By Henry Petroski

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About the book

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 i...Show more

Product design
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Book details

ISBN

9781400032938

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published year

2004

Language

English

Original title

Small Things Considered Why There Is No Perfect Design

Format

Paperback

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