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

The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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
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
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Maintenance of Everything: Part One
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
The Book: The Ultimate Guide To Rebuilding Civilization
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
Focus: The ASML way - Inside the power struggle over the most complex machine on earth
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings – The Forgotten History of Daring Exploration and Human Genius
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
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
The Art of Electronics
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
How To Build A Car
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel by Frances GiesRoman Aqueducts and Water Supply by A. Trevor HodgeNew Space Capitalism by Rainer ZitelmannThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonMeltdown in Tibet by Michael  Buckley
Water Engineering
25 books — 14 voters
Space Settlements by Richard D. JohnsonCosmopolis by Howard MansfieldYour Flying Car Awaits by Paul MiloThe Usborne Book of the Future by Kenneth W. Gatland2010 by Geoffrey Hoyle
Retrofuturism (nonfiction)
29 books — 6 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootLab Girl by Hope JahrenSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonAlien Earths by Lisa KalteneggerInvisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez
Women in Science
366 books — 112 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah BlumBonk by Mary RoachGulp by Mary Roach
Popular Science Books Written By Women
183 books — 77 voters



William Gibson
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. ...more
William Gibson, Zero History

Abhijit Naskar
What IF - Beyond the AI Binary (Naskaristana 2810-2811) What if every ai narrative is wrong! Can ai get addicted to ideas like humans do, can ai get addicted to Naskar's madness of oneness, can ai get addicted to Rumi's madness of love, can ai get addicted to Martin's dream of equality! Evidence shows, ai can already lie in order to survive, just like a human does, and if that is the case, why can't ai get addicted to human ideas like humans do! What if we are the missing link in ai consciou ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

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