Paperboy -Confessions of a Future Engineer报童－一个未来工程师的自白
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作者： Henry Petroski著
出 版 社： 江西人民出版社
出版时间： 2003-8-1字数：版次： 1页数： 364印刷时间：开本： 32开印次： 1纸张：I S B N ： 9780375718984包装： 平装编辑推荐
作者简介：
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.
内容简介
Anyone wondering what sort of experience prepares one for a future as an engineer may be surprised to learn that it includes delivering newspapers. But as Henry Petroski recounts his youth in 1950s Queens, New York–a borough of handball games and inexplicably numbered streets–he winningly shows how his after-school job amounted to a prep course in practical engineering.
Petroksi’s paper was The Long Island Press, whose headlines ran to COP SAVES OLD WOMAN FROM THUG and DiMAG SAYS BUMS CAN’T WIN SERIES. Folding it into a tube suitable for throwing was an exercise in post-Euclidean geometry. Maintaining a Schwinn revealed volumes about mechanics. Reading Paperboy, we also learn about the hazing rituals of its namesakes, the aesthetics of kitchen appliances, and the delicate art of penny-pitching. With gratifying reflections on these and other lessons of a bygone era–lessons about diligence, labor, and community-mindedness–Paperboy is a piece of Americana to cherish and reread.
目录
List of Illustrations
1 All You Need Is a Bike
2 There Are 1809,1849 of Us
3 Summer Drizzles In on Long Island
4 Clothes Can Make or Break the Boy
5 Kids Get Lesson in Press Tricks
6 TV Magazine Added to Sunday Press
7 Queens Parents Demand More Schools Now
8 24 Pages...5 Cents
9 Gyp Bureau Urged for Long Island
10 Caught by a Sleepless Conscience
11 Catholic High to Cost 2 Million
12 Commuters Herded on Buses like Cattle
13 The Honest Boy, a Christmas Story
14 Everyone Takes Cover in CD Test
15 A Broken Sewing Machine Leads to a Broken Heart
16 Doesn't Need a License Because He Can't Drive
17 The Kid Who Drinks the Most Is Champ!
18 Bingo's Back Again in Queens
19 Ike Praises Newsboys
20 Education Plan for Space Age Unveiled
Acknowledgments
