Engineering Book Summaries

The Unwritten Laws of Business Summary
The Unwritten Laws of Business
by W.J. King 1944 112 pages
3.99
5.1K ratings
Business
Management
Engineering
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering Summary
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering
by W.J. King 2001 49 pages
4.10
631 ratings
Engineering
Business
Programming
The Evolution of Useful Things Summary
The Evolution of Useful Things
How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are
by Henry Petroski 1994 288 pages
3.53
1.4K ratings
History
Science
Design
The Challenger Launch Decision Summary
The Challenger Launch Decision
Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
by Diane Vaughan 1996 592 pages
4.09
432 ratings
History
Science
Space
Fundamentals of Aerodynamics Summary
Fundamentals of Aerodynamics
by John D. Anderson Jr. 1984 1032 pages
4.45
386 ratings
Engineering
Science
Textbooks
Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 1 Summary
Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 1
Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors, Switches, Encoders, Relays, Transistors
by Charles Platt 2012 294 pages
4.31
183 ratings
Reference
Engineering
Technology
Engineering in Plain Sight Summary
Engineering in Plain Sight
An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
by Grady Hillhouse 2022 251 pages
4.23
630 ratings
Science
Engineering
Technology
Reentry Summary
Reentry
SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
by Eric Berger 2024 450 pages
4.53
975 ratings
Space
Science
Business
Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing Summary
Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
by Henry Petroski 1996 256 pages
3.75
346 ratings
Engineering
Science
Design
Mechatronics Summary
Mechatronics
Electronic Control Systems in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
by W. Bolton 1996 574 pages
4.10
545 ratings
Engineering
Science
Electrical Engineering
The Road Taken Summary
The Road Taken
The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
by Henry Petroski 2016 322 pages
3.45
519 ratings
History
Engineering
Economics
India’s Railway Man Summary
India’s Railway Man
A Biography of E. Sreedharan
by Rajendra B. Aklekar 2017 273 pages
3.85
248 ratings
Biography
History
Engineering
Architecting for Scale Summary
Architecting for Scale
High Availability for Your Growing Applications
by Lee Atchison 2016 228 pages
3.56
229 ratings
Technology
Architecture
Software
The Great Bridge Summary
The Great Bridge
The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by David McCullough 1972 608 pages
4.25
17.9K ratings
History
American History
New York
Concrete Planet Summary
Concrete Planet
The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
by Robert Courland 2011 396 pages
3.88
211 ratings
History
Science
Engineering
Network Warrior Summary
Network Warrior
Everything you need to know that wasn't on the CCNA exam
by Gary A. Donahue 2007 576 pages
4.19
426 ratings
Technical
Technology
Computer Science
Web Scalability for Startup Engineers Summary
Web Scalability for Startup Engineers
by Artur Ejsmont 2015 416 pages
4.51
327 ratings
Programming
Technology
Computer Science
Cloud FinOps Summary
Cloud FinOps
Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Financial Management
by J.R. Storment 2019 415 pages
4.14
170 ratings
Technology
Software
Engineering
Engineers of Dreams Summary
Engineers of Dreams
Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
by Henry Petroski 1995 479 pages
3.77
164 ratings
History
Engineering
Science
Small Things Considered Summary
Small Things Considered
Why There Is No Perfect Design
by Henry Petroski 2003 304 pages
3.40
332 ratings
Design
Science
Engineering
Programming the Raspberry Pi Summary
Programming the Raspberry Pi
Getting Started with Python
by Simon Monk 2012 170 pages
3.80
413 ratings
Programming
Technology
Computer Science
Civil Engineering Summary
Civil Engineering
A Very Short Introduction
by David Muir Wood 2012 143 pages
3.60
134 ratings
Science
Engineering
Architecture
Digital Design Summary
Digital Design
by M. Morris Mano 1984 516 pages
3.98
871 ratings
Computer Science
Engineering
Textbooks
The Pencil Summary
The Pencil
A History of Design and Circumstance
by Henry Petroski 1992 434 pages
3.81
641 ratings
History
Science
Engineering
Computer Hacking Beginners Guide Summary
Computer Hacking Beginners Guide
How to Hack Wireless Network, Basic Security and Penetration Testing, Kali Linux, Your First Hack
by Alan T. Norman 2016 167 pages
3.71
219 ratings
Hackers
Technology
Engineering
The Site Reliability Workbook Summary
The Site Reliability Workbook
Practical Ways to Implement SRE
by Betsy Beyer 2018 512 pages
4.35
384 ratings
Technology
Programming
Computer Science
The Essential Engineer Summary
The Essential Engineer
Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
by Henry Petroski 2010 288 pages
3.37
266 ratings
Engineering
Science
Technology
Signals and Systems Summary
Signals and Systems
by A. Anand Kumar 2011 952 pages
4.07
232 ratings
Engineering
Structural Analysis Summary
Structural Analysis
by Russell C. Hibbeler 1982 640 pages
4.11
402 ratings
Engineering
Civil Engineering
Physics
Materials Science and Engineering Summary
Materials Science and Engineering
An Introduction
by William D. Callister Jr. 1985 848 pages
4.09
848 ratings
Engineering
Textbooks
Science
Getting Started With Raspberry Pi Summary
Getting Started With Raspberry Pi
by Matt Richardson 2012 161 pages
3.84
321 ratings
Reference
Technology
Programming
Structures Summary
Structures
Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
by J.E. Gordon 1978 395 pages
4.14
3.6K ratings
Science
Engineering
Architecture
Hypermedia Systems Summary
Hypermedia Systems
by Carson Gross 2023 548 pages
4.41
194 ratings
Programming
Technology
Software
The Book on the Bookshelf Summary
The Book on the Bookshelf
by Henry Petroski 1999 304 pages
3.75
1.5K ratings
Books About Books
History
Microhistory
Make Summary
Make
Electronics: Learning Through Discovery
by Charles Platt 2008 349 pages
4.27
1.3K ratings
Engineering
Reference
Science
Exploring Arduino Summary
Exploring Arduino
by Jeremy Blum 2013 384 pages
4.28
276 ratings
Engineering
Reference
Technology
Learning Go Summary
Learning Go
An Idiomatic Approach to Real-World Go Programming
by Jon Bodner 2021 375 pages
4.44
409 ratings
Programming
Go
Technology
Ignition! Summary
Ignition!
An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
by John Drury Clark 1972 214 pages
4.13
2.7K ratings
Science
History
Space
Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks Summary
Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks
When Threads Unravel
by Paul Butcher 2014 267 pages
3.82
347 ratings
Programming
Technology
Computer Science
Raspberry Pi User Guide Summary
Raspberry Pi User Guide
by Eben Upton 2012 264 pages
3.83
528 ratings
Programming
Technology
Computers
How Technology Works Summary
How Technology Works
The Facts Visually Explained
by D.K. Publishing 2019 256 pages
4.37
149 ratings
Science
Technology
Engineering
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air Summary
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
by David J.C. MacKay 2008 384 pages
4.41
1.8K ratings
Science
Sustainability
Environment
AI Engineering Summary
AI Engineering
Building Applications with Foundation Models
by Chip Huyen 2025 532 pages
4.56
196 ratings
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
Technical
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