Engineering

Engineering (from Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise") is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes. The discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied science, technology and types of application. ...more

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport―A High-Octane History of Formula 1's Rise in America, Racing Culture, and Engineering Marvels
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Quantum Supremacy
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
The Design of Everyday Things
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Art of Electronics
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
How To Build A Car
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn IgguldenThe Daring Book for Girls by Andrea J. BuchananThe New Way Things Work by David MacaulayThe Young Adventurer's Guide to (Almost) Everything by Ben HewittThe Ultimate Book of Everyday Knots by Geoffrey Budworth
The VFD Children's Library
35 books — 1 voter
The Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodThe Kiss Quotient by Helen  HoangLove on the Brain by Ali HazelwoodThe Love Theorem by Camilla IsleyLove, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
Romance Novels with STEM Heroines
326 books — 271 voters

The Principia  by Isaac NewtonThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinRelativity by Albert EinsteinOn The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus CopernicusA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Science Through History
226 books — 11 voters
The STREAM TONE by T. GillingFrom GSM to LTE-Advanced Pro and 5G by Martin Sauter5G Physical Layer by Ali ZaidiIPv6 Deployment and Management by Michael DooleyThe Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It by Jonathan L. Zittrain
Telecommunications (Non-Fiction)
46 books — 10 voters



Aldo Leopold
To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.
Aldo Leopold, For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

Abhijit Naskar
AI without ethics is hollow, innovation without wisdom is dangerous. Progress without humanity is regression, abundance without awareness is derangement.
Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

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