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Petroski, Henry

 
9780375413537: Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer
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ISBN 10: 0375413537 ISBN 13: 9780375413537
Editorial: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2002

Sinopsis

The author of To Engineer Is Human describes his teenage years in the Cambria Heights section of Queens during the Eisenhower era and his job delivering the Long Island Press, work that taught him valuable lessons in commitment, labor, community-mindedness, and responsibility. 30,000 first printing.

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Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of nine previous books.

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Henry petroski has been called “the poet laureate of technology.” He is one of the most eloquent and inquisitive science and engineering writers of our time, illuminating with new clarity such familiar objects as pencils, books, and bridges. In <i>Paperboy</i>, he turns his intellectual curiosity inward, on his own past.<br><br>Petroski grew up in the Cambria Heights section of New York City’s borough of Queens during the 1950s, in the midst of a close and loving family. Educated at local Catholic schools, he worked as a delivery boy for the Long Island Press. The job taught him lessons about diligence, labor, commitment, and community-mindedness, lessons that this successful student could not learn at school. From his vantage point as a professor, engineer, and writer, Petroski reflects fondly on these lessons, and on his near-idyllic boyhood.<br><br><i>Paperboy</i> is also the story of the intellectual maturation of an engineer. Petroski’s curiosity about how things work―from bicycles to Press-books to newspaper delivery routes―was evident even in his youth. He writes with clear-eyed passion about the physical surroundings of his world, the same attitude he has brought to examining the quotidian objects of our world.<br><br><i>Paperboy</i> is a delightful memoir, telling the dual story of an admirable family in a more innocent, bygone America, and the making of an engineer and writer. This is a book to cherish and reread.

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Editorial
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0375413537
ISBN 13 
9780375413537
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
364
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