This book was in one of Nygard's footnotes in Release It! It's an awesome collection of research into catastrophic failures in the physical engineering world along with the lessons learned. I used it as the basis for a keynote on failure on the conference circuit last year.
http://www.amazon.com/Inviting-Disaster-James-R-Chiles-ebook/dp/B0018ND83Y
This book was in one of Nygard's footnotes in Release It! It's an awesome collection of research into catastrophic failures in the physical engineering world along with the lessons learned. I used it as the basis for a keynote on failure on the conference circuit last year.