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
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Maintenance of Everything: Part One
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Focus: The ASML way - Inside the power struggle over the most complex machine on earth
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
The Book: The Ultimate Guide To Rebuilding Civilization
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
The Design of Everyday Things
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
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
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
289 books — 148 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 STREAM TONE by T. GillingWeaving the Web by Tim Berners-LeeJulian Assange The Unauthorised Autobiog by Julian AssangeFuture Perfect by Steven JohnsonThe Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It by Jonathan L. Zittrain
The World Wide Web (Non-Fiction)
12 books — 10 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

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
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


All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.
Richard Lamm

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
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