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

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
The Engineer's Wife
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
The Unicorn Project
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Clean Architecture
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
The Design of Everyday Things
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
The Art of Electronics
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Introduction to Algorithms
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
The Idea Factory by Jon GertnerA Mind at Play by Jimmy SoniWork Rules! by Laszlo BockThe Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude ShannonThe Code Book by Simon Singh
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18 books — 4 voters

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The Internet (Non-Fiction)
29 books — 25 voters
The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney MilanTalk Sweetly to Me by Courtney MilanA Lady's Formula for Love by Elizabeth  EverettThe Kiss Quotient by Helen HoangTruth or Beard by Penny Reid
Romance Novels with STEM Heroines
173 books — 103 voters

Aircraft Propulsion by Saeed FarokhiAircraft Structures for Engineering Students by T.H.G. MegsonFlight Stability and Automatic Control by Robert C. NelsonIntroduction to Flight by John D. Anderson Jr.Foundations of Aerodynamics by Arnold M. Kuethe
Aerospace Engineering References
14 books — 19 voters
The Sound Book by Trevor J. CoxThe Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music by Miller PucketteMicrosound by Curtis RoadsElectronic Music and Musique Concrete by F.C. JuddDesigning Sound by Andy Farnell
Audio Post Production
9 books — 1 voter


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