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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Bedtime reading This is excellent reading if you ever have trouble staying awake at night :-) Actually, it is excellent reading in general. Learning from other peoples mistakes is so much better than learning from your own.
A clear and entertaining book Such is our morbid fascination that this book is inevitably more attractive than one called “Why Buildings Stay Up”. That said, I think I have not only learned more about structural engineering than I would have done from a positive counterpart, but I have also learned vastly more about the other factors, human and natural, that influence the ultimate success or failure of structures.
The book is based on the same material as the late 1990s TV series of the same name, and having watched that series... more info
An excellent read for technical and non-technical alike Having read 'Why buildings stand up' I immediately searched this one out. This book continues to be an excellent read for technical and non-technical persons who have an interest in structures. Fascinating!
Enlightening, not-too-tech intro. to structural engineering This was a great introduction to the fundamentals of building science - understanding why things don't work is a great help in understanding why they do. Each chapter discusses one example of something that went wrong and explains another reason why structures can fail.
