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The Civilized Engineer

Author: Samuel C. Florman
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: engineer, civilized
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1988-12-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0312025599
ISBN-13: 9780312025595

Civil engineer Samuel Forman’s The Civilized Engineer is aimed at both those observing and commenting externally on engineering, and the practicing engineer—to reveal something of the art behind great engineering achievements, and to stimulate debate upon the author’s hypothesis that "in its moment of ascendance, engineering is faced with the trivialization of its purpose and the debasement of its practice."

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The Aftermath: A Novel of Survival

Author: Samuel C. Florman
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Keywords: survival, novel, aftermath
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-12-11
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0312266529
ISBN-13: 9780312266523

The year is 2010 and the world as we know it has come to an end.A huge comet has smashed into the earth off the coast of California, vaporizing and generating a fiery rain that engulfs the globe in a destructive holocaust. But at the opposite pole of the planet, there is a "safe zone" encompassing part of the southeast African shore and the southern tip of Madagascar where the damage is extensive but not total.Spared from destruction is a luxury cruise ship, the Queen of Africa, which carries 600 of the world’s leading engineers.These outstanding technologists, traveling with their immed

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The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (Thomas Dunne Book)

Author: Samuel C. Florman
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: dunne, book, thomas, engineering, pleasures, existential
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1996-02-15
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0312141041
ISBN-13: 9780312141042

Humans have always sought to change their environment—building houses, monuments, temples, and roads. In the process, they have remade the fabric of the world into newly functional objects that are also works of art to be admired. In this second edition of his popular Existential Pleasures of Engineering, Samuel Florman explores how engineers think and feel about their profession.A deeply insightful and refreshingly unique text, this book corrects the myth that engineering is cold and passionless. Indeed, Florman celebrates engineering not only crucial and fundamental but also vital and aliv

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The Introspective Engineer

Author: Samuel C. Florman
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: engineer, introspective
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1996-12-15
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0312151527
ISBN-13: 9780312151522

The profession of engineering is rarely the topic of serious public discussion. Multimedia, virtual reality, information superhighway-these are the buzzwords of the day. But real engineers, the people who conceive of computers and oversee their manufacture, the people who design and build information systems, cars, bridges, and airplanes, labor in obscurity. There are no engineering heroes, and we as a society are poorer for this.Like Florman’s landmark book, The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, The Introspective Engineer is a clarion call to society. We must awaken to the reality t

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Li Hung-Chang and China’s Early Modernization

Authors:Samuel C. Chu, Samuel C. Chu, Kwang-Ching Liu,
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: modernization, china, chang, hung
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 1997-04
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 1563244586
ISBN-13: 9781563244582

This is a study of Li Hung-chang which represents a collaboration of Li experts among Chinese and Western scholars. The biography examines the beginnings of China’s modernisation; the Confucian as a patriot and pragmatist; his formative years, 1823-1866; and other aspects of his life.