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Books

Title

Publisher

  Date

 

Creativity, Problem Solving, and Aesthetics in Engineering:
Today’s Engineers Turning
Dreams into Reality

Springer Link

2020

 

BUILDING BRIDGES between Theory and Practice

World Scientific

2020

 

Doing it Differently
Systems for Rethinking Infrastructure

ICE Publications

2017

 

BRIDGES: The science and art of the world’s most inspiring structures

Oxford University Press

2010

 

Structural Engineering:
A Very Short Introduction

Oxford University Press

2014

 

Engineering:
A Very Short Introduction

Oxford University Press

2012

 

The New Penguin
Dictionary
of Civil Engineering

Penguin Books

2005

 

Doing it Differently
Systems for
Rethinking Construction

Thomas Telford

2000

 

Engineering Safety
(free download)

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McGraw-Hill

1992

 

Structural Design & Safety
(free download)

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Ellis Horwood

1980

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