Engineering

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general...

The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that transformed global trade routes and shaped modern American history, as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David...

This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was...

On the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking, the bestselling author of The Great Halifax Explosion tells the definitive story of the “Mighty Fitz.” For three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength...

With an introduction read by the author himself, Mark Pincus, and acclaimed narrator Fred Sanders, comes an unconventional, hands-on guide to turning ideas into products that matter—and that people love—from the legendary Silicon Valley pioneer, founder of Zynga, and creator of Stanford...

What happens when intelligent machines aren’t just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids? You’ve heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every child a personalized tutor, run our businesses more efficiently...

New York Times Best Seller How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that...

New York Times “The Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026” An astonishing true story—one of the most gripping maritime sagas of the nineteenth century—told by our era’s “expert literary steersman” (Washington Post). From the best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue...

Brought to you by Penguin. Top Gear turned gloomy Sunday nights into celebratory Friday nights. It made household names of presenters Clarkson, Hammond and May, their unique chemistry and buddy movie antics proving irresistible to a vast global audience. With these three at the helm, Top Gear...

From the author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard. Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson star in a film based on this National...

Unabridged and expertly crafted for audiobook listeners. The Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge provides basic knowledge that is essential for pilots. This handbook introduces pilots to the broad spectrum of knowledge that will be needed as they progress in their pilot training. Except...

Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave...

The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot delivers an electrifying narrative account of the top-secret U.S. mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander who masterminded Pearl Harbor. ""Operation Vengeance is colorful, intimate, eye-popping history, delivered at a...

Are you preparing for your private pilot checkride and feeling overwhelmed? Pass Your Private Pilot Checkride is your essential companion, designed to answer all your questions and clarify every aspect of the checkride process.

A monumental tale of American ambition, told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David McCullough. This gripping saga of the creation of the Brooklyn Bridge, one of the country’s boldest engineering achievements, reveals not only the politics and personalities behind...

An entertaining and fascinating memoir of “gifted storyteller” (People) Ann Hood’s adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant. In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to...

“A Perfect Storm for a new generation, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a masterful page-turning account of the El Faro's sinking.” —Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda...

The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner...

Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic “Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.”—The New Yorker “Wry and revelatory.” —The New York Times "A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft...

The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving...

The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason...

Help transform your business and innovate like the world's top tech companies! Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model was written to bridge the gap between where most companies are right now and where they need to be. The leaders of these companies know they must transform to compete...

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering is the full expression of what “You and Your Research” outlined. It's a book about thinking; more specifically, a style of thinking by which great ideas are conceived.

An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, LONGITUDE is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd. It is also a captivating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking. During the great ages of exploration, "the longitude problem" was...

With an introduction read by the author himself, Mark Pincus, and acclaimed narrator Fred Sanders, comes an unconventional, hands-on guide to turning ideas into products that matter—and that people love—from the legendary Silicon Valley pioneer, founder of Zynga, and creator of Stanford...

A history of the engineering marvels behind one of America's most innovative and beloved entertainment experiences When Disneyland opened to the public in 1955, it demystified the hidden world of factory automation through its extraordinary new attractions. In this fascinating book, Roland...

Bloomsbury presents Little Blue Dot by Katherine Dunn, read by Laurel Lefkow The unexplored history of GPS, a military technology turned daily necessity that impacts all aspects of our lives. Gone are the days when we pulled off to the side of the road, twisted a map this way and that, and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge FAA-H-8083-25C Audiobook This audiobook provides the basic knowledge that is essential for pilots. It introduces pilots to the broad spectrum of knowledge that will be needed as they progress in their pilot...

A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read "A powerful and urgent call to action—for the health and safety of half of our population, it’s time we rethink the male body ideal and build a world that includes us all.” —Dr. Elizabeth Comen, MD, medical oncologist, associate professor of medicine at NYU...

With 1350 active volcanoes on Earth and 50-70 erupting annually, this volume delves beneath the surface, explaining what makes these natural forces tick. Volcanoes: What Everyone Needs to Know guides the listener through one of nature's most fascinating and powerful forces, explaining...

Growth and Decay of Coral Reefs: Fifty Years of Learning describes how coral reefs have alternately flourished and declined over the last fifty years and the dynamics of these changes. The study is based on recordings at thirty different locations along the Sudanese coast, visited by the author...

The Physics of Theme Parks: Roller Coasters, Gravity, Motion, Illusions, and Crowd Design explains how theme parks turn basic physics into speed, suspense, immersion, and flow. This Practical Atlas guide looks closely at the systems riders actually encounter: lift hills, drops, loops, brake runs, restraint systems, dark ride scenes, sound effects, lighting, pathways, and queues. Rather than treating parks as pure fantasy, it shows how force, motion, timing, and perception are used in careful, repeatable ways to shape what guests feel from one moment to the next. The book gives a clear ...

Bloomsbury presents… Shipping Container by Craig Martin read by Matthew Biddulph Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading...

What exactly is a robot? How do intelligent machines see, think, navigate, and interact with the world around them? What technologies are making autonomous systems increasingly capable of performing tasks once thought possible only for humans? From robotic manufacturing systems and self-driving vehicles to AI-powered assistants, autonomous drones, and advanced humanoid robots, intelligent machines are transforming industries, reshaping economies, and changing how we live, work, and communicate.

The quiet workhorse of industrial communication—finally explained. Modbus is everywhere. Four decades after it was invented, it still connects the meters, drives, sensors, controllers, and SCADA systems that run modern industry—and sooner or later, anyone working with industrial or embedded systems has to deal with it. Most references describe the protocol and stop there. This book does something better: it teaches you how Modbus actually works, and then proves it by making it run in front of you. Starting from a single bit and building all the way to a working monitoring-and-control ...

A lock is a social contract rendered in metallurgy—a few cents of brass standing between a thief and everything you own. For five thousand years, the security of our world has relied on a 'click of consent' that is often more psychological than physical. In 'The Lock,' Owen Briggs pulls back the curtain on the secret history of the devices we use every day, tracing a high-stakes duel between the master smiths who built the world's most formidable mechanisms and the clever pickers who found their flaws. From the gravity-fed wooden pins of Ancient Egypt to the precision-machined cylinders ...

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems are often designed using ideal psychrometric assumptions. In textbooks, training manuals, and engineering calculations, air behaves predictably, equipment performs according to manufacturer data, and environmental conditions remain within stable boundaries. However, the reality encountered in actual buildings is very different. In the field, HVAC systems operate under constantly changing conditions influenced by occupancy variations, weather fluctuations, equipment aging, installation deficiencies, control instability, infiltration, ...

For decades, HVAC design has been built on a comforting assumption: that we understand how buildings “load” heat and moisture. Sensible heat is calculated with relative precision, infiltration is estimated with familiar multipliers, and latent heat is often treated as a secondary, simplified component. That framework worked reasonably well when buildings were leakier, materials were less complex, and occupancy patterns were more predictable. But modern buildings have changed the rules without changing the equations. Today’s environments are tighter, more insulated, more glazed, and ...

Air Handling Units (AHUs) are often designed with a primary focus on thermal performance, airflow efficiency, and energy consumption. However, in many industrial environments, a far more aggressive and less predictable force governs their long-term reliability: corrosion and material degradation. Across chemical plants, coastal installations, refineries, pharmaceutical facilities, and wastewater treatment sites, AHUs operate in atmospheres that contain chlorides, sulfur compounds, acidic vapors, and reactive airborne contaminants. These elements do not simply reduce efficiency—they ...

Natural gas has become one of the most essential energy sources in modern residential, commercial, and industrial infrastructure. Commonly distributed as Piped Natural Gas (PNG), methane-based fuel systems provide reliable energy for heating, water heating, cooking, and numerous building service applications. Across cities and industries worldwide, PNG networks have transformed the way buildings consume energy by offering convenience, efficiency, and operational flexibility. This book, Natural Gas (Methane/PNG): Residential and Commercial Applications for Heating, Water Heating, and Cooking...

Elevator shafts are often treated as simple architectural necessities—vertical voids that allow people to move between floors. In reality, they behave as powerful aerodynamic channels that can strongly influence a building’s internal pressure regime, energy performance, comfort conditions, and even fire and smoke safety. In tall buildings, especially, these shafts become part of an invisible but highly active airflow system driven by the stack effect. The stack effect is not a new phenomenon, but its impact has become far more critical as buildings grow taller, tighter, and more energy ...

Hydrogen has become one of the most important utility gases in modern high-performance laboratories, supporting critical applications in analytical chemistry, materials science, semiconductor research, energy systems, and advanced manufacturing. Its unique properties—high diffusivity, clean combustion characteristics, and suitability as a carrier or process gas—make it indispensable in environments where precision, reliability, and purity are non-negotiable. However, hydrogen is also a gas that demands respect. Its wide flammability range, low ignition energy, and ability to permeate ...

In 1852, HMS Birkenhead struck rock off the coast of South Africa and began to sink into the dark water. She was carrying soldiers, crew, women, children, and dependants toward the Cape, part of Britain’s vast imperial military network. But when the troopship was fatally damaged, the voyage became something far more enduring than a maritime accident. The boats could not save everyone. In the chaos that followed, women and children were given the first chance of escape while soldiers were ordered to stand fast. Many of those men remained on deck as the ship failed beneath them, preserving ...

Humidity control is one of the most important yet often misunderstood aspects of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) engineering. While temperature receives much of the attention in building design and operation, moisture management plays an equally critical role in occupant comfort, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, equipment reliability, and the protection of building assets. Excess humidity can lead to mold growth, microbial contamination, corrosion, condensation, material degradation, and process failures. Insufficient humidity can create discomfort, static ...