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Mattys and Mario Salvadori, Why Buildings Fall Down, Norton ...
Johns Hopkins University
What is Engineering?
M. Karweit
Readable References (mostly lower-cost paperbacks) Materials 1. Ashby, Michael F, and David R. H. Jones, Engineering Materials 1, ButterworthHeinemann, 1996. 2. Drexler, K. Eric, Engines of Creation, Anchor Books, 1986. 3. Gordon, J. E., The New Science of Strong Materials, Princeton Univ. Press, 1976. 4. Higgins, R. A., Properties of Engineering Materials, Industrial Press Inc., 1994. Design 1. Petroski, Henry, Invention by Design, Harvard Univ. Press, 1996. Statics/Structures 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Brown, David J., Bridges, Macmillan, 1993. Gordon, J. E., Structures—or why things don’t fall down, Da Capo Press, 1978. Hawkes, Nigel, Structures—the way things are built, Macmillan, 1993. Levy, Mattys and Mario Salvadori, Why Buildings Fall Down, Norton & Co, 1992. Salvadori, Mario, Why Buildings Stand Up, Norton & Co., 1990.
Uncertainty/Statistics 1. Gonick, Larry, and Woollcott Smith, The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, Harper Perennial, 1993. Computers/Digital Logic 1. Feynman, Richard P., Feynman Lectures on Computation, Perseus Books. 2. Gonick, Larry, The Cartoon Guide to the Computer, Harper Perennial, 1983. Chemical/physical processes 1. McGee, Harold, The Curious Cook, North Point Press, 1990. 2. McGee, Harold, On food and cooking, Collier Books, 1997 (paperback ed.).
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