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...

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...

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Instant New York Times Bestseller In time for Apple’s 50th anniversary, CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue tells the iconic company’s entire life story: how it was born, nearly died, was born again under Steve Jobs, and became, under CEO Tim Cook, the most valuable company in the...

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...

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...

“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 "CDL Study Guide 2025-2026" is a comprehensive resource designed to ensure your readiness for the CDL exam. With a focus on extensive practice questions and an innovative online platform, our guide is your pathway to success in obtaining your CDL.

Step into a new era of project management education with this comprehensive, audio-first study guide built for the PMBOK Guide 8th edition, the global standard shaping how project work is understood and applied in practice.

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 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...

After sailing 300,000 miles and weathering dozens of storms in all the world's oceans, John Kretschmer has plenty of stories and advice to share. John's offshore training passages sell out a year in advance, and his entertaining presentations are popular at boat shows and yacht clubs all over...

What's in Stick and Rudder: The invisible secret of all heavier-than-air flight: the angle of attack. What it is, and why it can't be seen. How lift is made, and what the pilot has to do with it. Why airplanes stall - how do you know you're about to stall The landing approach - how the pilot's...

One hundred years ago, the mightiest "unsinkable" ship began her maiden voyage to cross the Atlantic. An engineering feat 11 stories high, the Titanic contained a list of passengers collectively worth $250 million when she left port on April 10, 1912, but she would never reach her destination...

In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who signed on for the dangerous job. Nothing Like It in the World gives...

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...

You can't out-effort a broken system. In 1948, the West tried to supply a blockaded city of two million people entirely from the air — and at first, it failed. Not for lack of courage. For lack of rhythm. Then one man stopped the heroic scramble and built a machine: a steady beat, a continuous flow, ruthlessly standardized work, a rhythm protected above any single load. The tonnage climbed and never stopped. A superpower was beaten by logistics alone. Your jobsite is no different. Most projects don't fail because the plan is bad. They fail because readiness never arrives on the beat — ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Are you ready to start your engines and race into the exciting world of automobiles? 100 Fun Facts About Cars takes you on an incredible journey through the history, speed, inventions, engines, and amazing technology behind some of the world's most fascinating vehicles. From the very first automobiles to futuristic self-driving cars, this action-packed book is filled with surprising discoveries, jaw-dropping records, and fascinating stories that will fuel your curiosity from the very first page. Whether you're a young car enthusiast, a curious learner, a future engineer, or simply someone ...

In January 1854, a new iron sailing ship left Liverpool for Melbourne carrying emigrants, families, workers, children, and gold-rush dreamers bound for Australia. RMS Tayleur was meant to represent the future of ocean travel: large, modern, ambitious, and connected to the early White Star enterprise. Within days, she was wrecked against Lambay Island off the coast of Ireland. The disaster exposed a fatal chain of confidence and failure. Tayleur’s iron hull, once a symbol of progress, created serious compass problems. Her crew was not equal to the demands of a large emigrant ship. Her ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

The HVAC industry is undergoing a profound transformation driven by environmental regulations, energy efficiency demands, and the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Among the most promising developments in this transition is the renewed adoption of Carbon Dioxide (CO₂), also known as R-744, as a natural, low-GWP refrigerant. Once considered impractical due to its high operating pressures and challenging thermodynamic behavior, CO₂ is now at the forefront of modern refrigeration and heat pump technology. Advances in compressor design, control strategies, and system ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...