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Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,804 ratings — published 1978
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,562 ratings — published 1985
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,969 ratings — published 1988
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 169 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.69 — 11,061 ratings — published 2015
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.46 — 18,239 ratings — published 1994
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,477 ratings — published 1999
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (ebook)
by (shelved 137 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,942 ratings — published 2018
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 23,744 ratings — published 2007
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,781 ratings — published 1996
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,262 ratings — published 1975
The Art of Electronics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,633 ratings — published 1980
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,044 ratings — published 1972
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,600 ratings — published 2013
How To Build A Car (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.44 — 15,353 ratings — published 2017
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 12,027 ratings — published 1994
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by (shelved 83 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,870 ratings — published 1999
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 909 ratings — published 2022
Existential Pleasures of Engineering, The (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.51 — 479 ratings — published 1976
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,191 ratings — published 1972
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,821 ratings — published 2018
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,385 ratings — published 1989
Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 868 ratings — published 1985
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.18 — 24,262 ratings — published 2008
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,506 ratings — published 1993
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,183 ratings — published
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,130 ratings — published 2013
Practical Electronics for Inventors 2/E (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,067 ratings — published 1998
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,629 ratings — published 2017
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,898 ratings — published 2003
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,830 ratings — published 1999
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,994 ratings — published 2019
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,367 ratings — published 2020
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 666 ratings — published
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,259 ratings — published 2014
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,210 ratings — published 2012
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (Mcgraw-hill Series in Mechanical Engineering)
by (shelved 59 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 401 ratings — published 2005
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 843 ratings — published 1992
Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.75 — 354 ratings — published 1996
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,027 ratings — published 2020
Clean Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,260 ratings — published 2017
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,614 ratings — published 2015
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,274 ratings — published 2022
System Design Interview – An insider's guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,563 ratings — published 2020
The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,809 ratings — published 2015
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,268 ratings — published
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,955 ratings — published 2016
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 50 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 569 ratings — published 1975
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,410 ratings — published 2018
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,758 ratings — published 1981
The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,389 ratings — published 1994
“When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.
Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.”
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Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.”
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“It is hardly surprising that the malodorous field of garbology has not attained the popularity of rocket science, oil exploration, or brain surgery.”
― The Waste Crisis: Landfills, Incinerators, and the Search for a Sustainable Future
― The Waste Crisis: Landfills, Incinerators, and the Search for a Sustainable Future
