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“This book was okay. It’s not what I expected. It talks about infrastructure, but really from a systems and societal perspective. It talks about the ideas of sharing infrastructure, and how that infrastructure has played out in our society. It also goes deep into the effects on women and minorities,…”
“I normally find things to research by reading books. This time I read a book because I wanted to learn more about a thing I was researching. I was writing this entry: Types of Aircraft Engines . I wanted to know more about the differences between turboprops and turbofans. So I found this book, and…”
“This is an interesting book. It’s a collection of essays, really, about engineering, and specifically about engineering failures. I call it a ‘collection’ because there’s no narrative thread to any of it. All the chapters (‘essays’) seemed to be relatively disconnected, and I couldn’t really figure…”
