An amateur’s outlook on computation and mathematics

Softer infrastructure

by Brian Hayes

Published 14 September 2006

For those who’ve been waiting patiently… My book Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape is just out in paperback. Except for the cover and the price, it’s identical to the hard-cover edition (errors and all!). Statistics:

  • characters: 1,302,389
  • words: 219,748
  • sentences: 10,940
  • pages: 541
  • photographs: 735
  • weight: 4.6 pounds
  • dimensions: 10.3 x 10.3 x 1.2 inches
  • list price: $49.95 (US) hardbound, $35 paperbound
  • ISBN: 0-393-05997-9 hardbound, 0-393-32959-3 paperbound

Links for the paperback edition:

More info at http://industrial-landscape.com/index.html

End of sales pitch.

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Publication history

First publication: 14 September 2006

Converted to Eleventy framework: 22 April 2025

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