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
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Women in Science
326 books — 103 voters

Conceptual Blockbusting by James L. AdamsThe Software Measurement Guidebook by John GaffneyZX Spectrum Games Code Club by Gary PlowmanOOP Concepts Booster  by Rakesh SinghProgramming Pearls by Jon L. Bentley
Code Complete Reading Plan
22 books — 4 voters
The Boyfriend App by Katie SiseHeartstream by Tom PollockThe Pretty App by Katie SiseClick'd by Tamara Ireland StoneLove, Decoded by Jennifer Yen
YA & Middle Grade App Fiction
20 books — 3 voters

Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel by Frances GiesRoman Aqueducts and Water Supply by A. Trevor HodgeThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonMeltdown in Tibet by Michael  BuckleyThe Croton Dams and Aqueduct by Christopher R. Tompkins
Water Engineering
24 books — 11 voters
Web Hacking Arsenal by Rafay  BalochAI Doctor by Ronald M. RazmiAI 2041 by Kai-Fu LeeThe Book of Why by Judea PearlA Brief History of Intelligence by Max Solomon Bennett
Future Technology (nonfiction)
102 books — 191 voters


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