亨利•波卓斯基(Henry Petroski)，美国杜克大学土木工程、历史学教授，特别擅长于事故分析，被《克科斯评论》（Kirkus Reviews）誉为“科技的桂冠诗人”，2006年荣获美国历史悠久且最富盛名的工程奖项之一——华盛顿奖（Washington Award）。他曾在《美国科学家》(American Scientist)杂志中，持续为大众撰写工程设计与文化研究的专栏，也为《纽约时代》杂志（The New York Times）、《华盛顿邮报》（The Washington Post）、《华尔街日报》（The Wall Street Journal）撰写一些非工程类文章。他曾受邀参加美国国家公共电台（National Public Radio）、今日秀（Today Show）节目和吉姆莱勒新闻时间（News Hour with Jim Le...(展开全部)

亨利•波卓斯基(Henry Petroski)，美国杜克大学土木工程、历史学教授，特别擅长于事故分析，被《克科斯评论》（Kirkus Reviews）誉为“科技的桂冠诗人”，2006年荣获美国历史悠久且最富盛名的工程奖项之一——华盛顿奖（Washington Award）。他曾在《美国科学家》(American Scientist)杂志中，持续为大众撰写工程设计与文化研究的专栏，也为《纽约时代》杂志（The New York Times）、《华盛顿邮报》（The Washington Post）、《华尔街日报》（The Wall Street Journal）撰写一些非工程类文章。他曾受邀参加美国国家公共电台（National Public Radio）、今日秀（Today Show）节目和吉姆莱勒新闻时间（News Hour with Jim Le...(展开全部)

When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur. In "To Forgive...(展开全部)

The question Are We Human? is both urgent and ancient. Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley offer a multi-layered exploration of the intimate relationship between human and design and rethink the philosophy of design in a multi-dimensional exploration from the very first tools and ornaments to the constant buzz of social media. The average day involves the experience of thousands of...(展开全部)

The lessons of this book can help us all find the opportunities that are just waiting to be discovered in the challenges we face every day. This book is about failure, but failure in a whole new light. It is about how to Fail To Succeed.

the world—if they know how to focus their skills, time, and agendas. In Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable, Nathan Shedroff examines how the endemic culture of design often creates unsustainable solutions, and shows how designers can bake sustainability into their design processes in order to produce more sustainable solutions. Design is the Problem...(展开全部)

Joshua A. Fogel is professor of history at York University, Toronto, and a specialist in the history of cultural and political ties between China and Japan in the modern era.

The modern histories of China and Japan are inexorably intertwined. Their relationship is perhaps most obvious in the fields of political, economic, and military history, but it is no less true in cultural and art history. Yet the traffic in artistic practices and practitioners between China and Japan remains an understudied field. In this volume, an international group of scho...(展开全部)

Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game-changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative-they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants. But they get disappointing results. Why? In The Design of Business, Roger Martin offers a co...(展开全部)

Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize and 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize. ‘One of the best books yet written on data and algorithms. . .deserves a place on the bestseller charts.’ (The Times) You are accused of a crime. Who would you rather determined your fate – a human or an algorithm? An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judge...(展开全部)