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

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
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
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
Focus: The ASML way - Inside the power struggle over the most complex machine on earth
Maintenance of Everything: Part One
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
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
How To Build A Car
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
The Boyfriend App by Katie SiseHeartstream by Tom PollockLove, Decoded by Jennifer YenClick'd by Tamara Ireland StoneThe Pretty App by Katie Sise
YA & Middle Grade App Fiction
20 books — 3 voters
Influence by Robert B. CialdiniTraction by Gino WickmanThe Marketing Machine by Ros ConkieStaff Engineer by Will LarsonTime Management PRIVATE WORKSHOP Designed as a Book I Bit by ... by N. Sakr
Engineering Leadership
13 books — 8 voters

Cosmos by Carl SaganA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootPale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
Science Writing
285 books — 147 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

Influence by Robert B. CialdiniThe Marketing Machine by Ros ConkieNew Space Capitalism by Rainer ZitelmannStructures by J.E. GordonTeam Topologies by Matthew    Skelton
Holistic Engineer
26 books — 7 voters
New Space Capitalism by Rainer ZitelmannCathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel by Frances GiesRoman Aqueducts and Water Supply by A. Trevor HodgeThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonMeltdown in Tibet by Michael  Buckley
Water Engineering
25 books — 16 voters


James Dyson
Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly. ...more
James Dyson

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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Programming, math, science and engineering topics at a basic level, for recreational purposes.
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