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Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,744 ratings — published 1978
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,525 ratings — published 1985
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,215 ratings — published 1988
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 167 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.69 — 10,867 ratings — published 2015
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.46 — 17,716 ratings — published 1994
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,293 ratings — published 1999
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 23,599 ratings — published 2007
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (ebook)
by (shelved 126 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,789 ratings — published 2018
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,687 ratings — published 1996
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,188 ratings — published 1975
The Art of Electronics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,621 ratings — published 1980
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,964 ratings — published 1972
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,343 ratings — published 2013
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,985 ratings — published 1994
How To Build A Car (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.44 — 14,892 ratings — published 2017
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by (shelved 80 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,856 ratings — published 1999
Existential Pleasures of Engineering, The (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.52 — 473 ratings — published 1976
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 873 ratings — published 2022
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,919 ratings — published 1972
Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 864 ratings — published 1985
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,358 ratings — published 1989
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,132 ratings — published
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,365 ratings — published 2008
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,661 ratings — published 2018
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 50,646 ratings — published 2013
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,486 ratings — published 1993
Practical Electronics for Inventors 2/E (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,055 ratings — published 1998
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,507 ratings — published 2017
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,860 ratings — published 2003
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,934 ratings — published 2019
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,706 ratings — published 1999
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,299 ratings — published 2020
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,228 ratings — published 2014
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 661 ratings — published
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (Mcgraw-hill Series in Mechanical Engineering)
by (shelved 59 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.06 — 394 ratings — published 2005
Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.74 — 354 ratings — published 1996
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,059 ratings — published 2012
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 839 ratings — published 1992
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,993 ratings — published 2020
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,483 ratings — published 2015
Clean Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,179 ratings — published 2017
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,201 ratings — published 2022
System Design Interview – An insider's guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 54 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,455 ratings — published 2020
The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,793 ratings — published 2015
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,203 ratings — published
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,935 ratings — published 2016
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,607 ratings — published 1981
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,392 ratings — published 2018
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 48 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 540 ratings — published 1975
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 46 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,379 ratings — published 1994
“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
― Zero History
― Zero History
“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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