Mechanical Engineering Books

Across the Airless Wilds
by Earl Swift
Review
Power Play
by Tim Higgins
Review
About Time
by David Rooney
Review
The Burning Blue
by Kevin Cook
Review
Architecture and Energy
by Barnabas Calder
Review
Plastic: An Autobiography
by Allison Cobb
Review
Test Gods
by Nicholas Schmidle
Review
The New Breed
by Kate Darling
Review
The Fabric of Civilization
by Virginia Postrel
Review
Liftoff
by Eric Berger
Review
Operation Moonglow
by Teasel Muir-Harmony
Review
Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car
by Alex Davies
Review
What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots
by Laura Major and Julie Shah
Review
Nanoscale Energy Transport and Conversion
by Gang Chen
Review
Clean: The New Science of Skin
by James Hamblin
Review
War in Space
by Bleddyn Bowen
Review
Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
by Debora L. Spar
Review
Power to the People
by Audrey Kurth Cronin
Review
Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On
by Maxim Lapan
Review
How We’ll Live on Mars
by Stephen Petranek
Review
On Cold Iron: A Story of Hubris and the 1907 Quebec Bridge Collapse
by Dan Levert
Review
Hacking Planet Earth
by Thomas M. Kostigen
Review
The Green New Deal and Beyond
by Stan Cox
Review
The Drone Age
by Michael J. Boyle
Review
Empires of the Sky
by Alexander Rose
Review
Spacefarers
by Christopher Wanjek
Review
The Future Is Faster Than You Think
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Review
Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 100 Incredible Microbes
by Marilyn Roossinck
Review
Nano Comes to Life
by Sonia Contera
Review
SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build
by Jonathan Waldman
Review
Talking to Robots: A Brief Guide to Our Human-Robot Futures
by David Ewing Duncan
Review
Optical Inspection of Microsystems Second Edition
by Wolfgang Osten
Review
Chasing New Horizons
by Alan Stern, David Grinspoon
Dr Space Junk vs The Universe
by Alice Gorman
Review
Who’s Afraid of AI?
by Thomas Ramge
Review
Plane Crash: The Forensics of Aviation Disasters
by George Bibel and Captain Robert Hedges
Review
It’s a Question of Space
by Clayton C. Anderson
Review
Beyond the Known
by Andrew Rader
Review
The Robotic Imaginary
by Jennifer Rhee
Review
Human/Machine: The Future of our Partnership with Machines
by Daniel Newman, Olivier Blanchard
Review
The Space Race: The Journey to the Moon and Beyond
by Sarah Cruddas
Review
Magnificent Women and Their Revolutionary Machines
by Henrietta Heald
Review
More From Less
by Andrew McAfee
Review
The Remarkable Life of the Skin
by Monty Lyman
Review
Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
by Sarah Parcak
Review
The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
by Susan Hockfield
Review
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
by Charles Fishman
Review
The Women of the Moon: Tales of Science, Love, Sorrow, and Courage
by Daniel R. Altschuler and Fernando J. Ballesteros
Review
Applied Nanophotonics
by Sergey V. Gaponenko and Hilmi Volkan Demir
Review
Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket
by Fraser MacDonald
Review
Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of Civilisation
by John Browne
Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless
by Daniel Albert
Review
The Case for Space
by Robert Zubrin
Review
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
by Mark Miodownik
Review
Material Value: More Sustainable, Less Wasteful Manufacturing of Everything from Cell Phones to Cleaning Products
by Julia L. F. Goldstein
Review
The Robots Are Coming!: The Future of Jobs in the Age of Automation
by Andres Oppenheimer
Review
Chasing the Moon
by Robert Stone and Alan Andres
Review
Apollo: To the Moon in 50 Objects
by Teasel E. Muir-Harmony
Review
Quantum Nano-Photonics
by Baldassare Di Bartolo, Luciano Silvestri, Maura Cesaria, andJohn Collins
Review
Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga
by Laura Watts
Review
Skeleton Keys
by Brian Switek
Review
Typewriters: Iconic Machines from the Golden Age of Mechanical Writing
by Anthony Casillo, Bruce Curtis, and Tom Hanks
Review
Shoot for the Moon
by Richard Wiseman
Review
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
by Paul Steinhardt
Review
Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
by Michael Wall
Review
No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future
by Samuel I. Schwartz and Karen Kelly
Review
Safely to Earth: The Men and Women Who Brought the Astronauts Home
by Jack Clemons
Review
Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century
by Bruce Usher
Review
A Systematic Approach to Learning Robot Programming with ROS
by Wyatt S. Newman
Review
NASA Operations Manual
by David Baker
Review
Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World’s Fastest Clipper Ship
by Steven Ujifusa
Review
Flexible Glass: Enabling Thin, Lightweight, and Flexible Electronics (Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Coatings Technology)
by Sean M. Garner
Review
Mission Moon 3-D: Reliving the Great Space Race (3d Stereoscopic Book)
by David J. Eicher and Brian May
Review
How to Live in Space: Everything You Need to Know for the Not-So-Distant Future
by Colin Stuart
Review
Fundamentals of Optomechanics
by Daniel Vukobratovich and Paul Yoder
Review
Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots
by Kate Devlin
Review
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
by Keith O'Brien
Review
The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future
by Roger D. Launius
Review
The Cryotron Files: The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist
by Douglas Buck and Iain Dey
Review
The Astronaut Maker
by Michael Cassutt
Review
Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car–And How It Will Reshape Our World
by Lawrence Burns
Review
Modeling Nanowire and Double-Gate Junctionless Field-Effect Transistors
by Farzan Jazaeri and Jean-Michel Sallese
Review
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
by Bruce Schneier
Review
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
by Lisa Margonelli
Review
Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart
by Mimi Swartz
Review
Optical MEMS, Nanophotonics, and Their Applications
by Guangya Zhou and Chengkuo Lee
Review
The Consolations of Physics: Why the Wonders of the Universe Can Make You Happy
by Tim Radford
Review
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
by Paul Scharre
Review
Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices
by Zhigang Rick Li
Review
Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
by Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson
Review
The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job
by Emily Lakdawalla
Review
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
by Simon Winchester
Review
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
by Garry Kasparov
Review
Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
by Tim Fernholz
Review
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
by Christian Davenport
Review
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
by Andrea Barnet
Review
Hybrid Phonons in Nanostructures (Series on Semiconductor Science and Technology)
by Brian K. Ridley
Review
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
by Alan Stern, David Grinspoon
Review
Picturing the Cosmos: A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor
by Iina Kohonen
Review
Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield
by Robert H. Latiff
Review
Inventing a Space Mission: The Story of the Herschel Space Observatory (ISSI Scientific Report Series)
by Vincent Minier, Roger-Maurice Bonnet, Vincent Bontems, Thijs de Graauw, Mike Griffin, Frank Helmich, Göran Pilbratt, and Sergio Volonte
Review
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon
by Robert Kurson
Review
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Random House Large Print)
by Michio Kaku
Review
Tuning Semiconducting and Metallic Quantum Dots: Spectroscopy and Dynamics
by Christian von Borczyskowski, Eduard Zenkevich
Review
The Indian Space Programme: India’s incredible journey from the Third World towards the First
by Gurbir Singh
Review
The 3D Printing Handbook: Technologies, design and applications
by Ben Redwood, Filemon Schöffer, and Brian Garret
Review
Silicon Nanophotonics: Basic Principles, Present Status, and Perspectives, Second Edition
by Leonid Khriachtchev
Review
Apollo: The extraordinary visual history of the iconic space programme
by Zack Scott
Review
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
by Scott Kelly
Review
Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by Joseph E. Aoun
Review
The Search For Earth’s Twin
by Stuart Clark
Review
3D Printing in Medicine
by Deepak M Kalaskar
Review
Planet Hunters: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
by Lucas Ellerbroek
Review
ISRO: A Personal History
by R. Aravamudan, with Gita Aravamudan
Review
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
by Brian Merchant
Review
Astronaut: 1961 Onwards (All Roles and Nationalities) (Owners Workshop Manual)
by Ken MacTaggart
Review
The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future
by Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever
Review
The Switch: How solar, storage and new tech means cheap power for all
by Chris Goodall
Review
The Car Hacking Handbook: A Guide for the Penetration Tester
by Craig Smith
Review
Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides (Springer Series in Materials Science)
by Alexander V. Kolobov and Junji Tominaga
Review

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The Quest to Trap Carbon in Stone—and Beat Climate Change
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Nuclear Fusion Edges Toward the Mainstream
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The Dream of Carbon Air Capture Edges Toward Reality
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