I would not recommend buying this, at least a full price. If you've had engineering training then it gets to be tiring as it's written at a low level. I did learn some things. But her "look at me, a female engineer" bullshit is really too much. Pretty much par for the course though; the few females who can hack it aren't out writing books about it. I wish this reviewer had written prior to my purchase (which was informed by a good review in the WSJ, which is usually pretty good at highlighting good new writing): > The other shortcoming is the voice of Ms. Agrawal; it’s all about her—‘my buildings’, ‘I designed’, and ‘me’. She does not acknowledge that working or ‘building’ is a team effort. This is perhaps intertwined with the previous shortcoming. She writes as if she is works in a vacuum, by herself responsible for designing a structure, even part of a structure.