Engineering, Environment & Energy Books

Online Courts and the Future of Justice
by Richard Susskind
Review
How We’ll Live on Mars
by Stephen Petranek
Review
Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
by Daniel Mathews
Land of Wondrous Cold
by Gillen D'Arcy Wood
Review
Fighting Pollution and Climate Change
by Richard W. Emory, Jr.
Review
On Cold Iron: A Story of Hubris and the 1907 Quebec Bridge Collapse
by Dan Levert
Review
The Story of More
by Hope Jahren
Review
The Bird Way
by Jennifer Ackerman
The Information Trade
by Alexis Wichowski
Review
Hacking Planet Earth
by Thomas M. Kostigen
Review
Tales of Two Planets
by John Freeman, Margaret Atwood, Arundhati Roy, et al
The Green New Deal and Beyond
by Stan Cox
Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State
by Barton Gellman
Fathoms
by Rebecca Giggs
The Future We Choose
by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
The Drone Age
by Michael J. Boyle
The View from Space
by Richard B. Leshner, Thor Hogan
Review
The Man Who Solved the Market
by Gregory Zuckerman
Review
Alien Oceans
by Kevin Hand
Review
Galileo: And the Science Deniers
by Mario Livio
Review
Empires of the Sky
by Alexander Rose
Review
The Ocean Reader
by Eric Paul Roorda
Review
The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe
by Thane Gustafson
Review
Spacefarers
by Christopher Wanjek
Review
Putting California on the Map
by David Carle
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
The Deep Learning Revolution
by Terrence J. Sejnowski
Review
Nano Comes to Life
by Sonia Contera
Review
The Rules of Contagion
by Adam Kucharski
Review
Agile Machine Learning
by Eric Carter, Matthew Hurst
Review
Competing in the Age of AI
by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhan
Review
SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build
by Jonathan Waldman
Review
The New International System of Units (SI)
by Ernst O. Göbel and Uwe Siegner
Review
Nature’s Explorers
by Natural History Natural History Museum
Review
Talking to Robots: A Brief Guide to Our Human-Robot Futures
by David Ewing Duncan
Review
Embracing Sufficiency
by Joseph Stadtmiller
Review
Life Changing: How Humans are Altering Life on Earth
by Helen Pilcher
Review
Optical Inspection of Microsystems Second Edition
by Wolfgang Osten
Review
Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters
by David J. Hand
Review
Dr Space Junk vs The Universe
by Alice Gorman
Review
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
by Greta Thunberg
Review
Handprints on Hubble
by Kathryn D. Sullivan
Review
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
by Anna Wiener
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
Inevitably Toxic
by Brinda Sarathy, Vivien Hamilton and Janet Farrell Brodie
Review
Wildly Successful Farming
by Brian DeVore
Review
Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink
by Irus Braverman
Review
Substantive Theory and Constructive Measures
by Mark Stone and Jack Stenner
Review
Smarter Homes: How Technology Will Change Your Home Life
by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Review
Insane Mode
by Hamish McKenzie
Review
DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story
by Nancy Duarte
Review
Exoplanets: Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
by Donald Goldsmith
Review
Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir
by Callum Roberts
Review
Harold Edgerton: Seeing the Unseen
by Deborah Douglas, Gus Kayafas, Ron Kurtz
Review
Beyond the Known
by Andrew Rader
Review
Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
by Paul Hendrickson
Review
The Moon: A History for the Future
by Oliver Morton
Review
Fire Doesn’t Innovate
by Kip Boyle
Review
Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator
by Gregory B. Jaczko
Review
Saving America’s Cities
by Lizabeth Cohen
Review
Blowout
by Rachel Maddow
Review
The Robotic Imaginary
by Jennifer Rhee
Review
The Costs of Connection
by Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias
Review
The Reality Game
by Samuel Woolley
Review
Human/Machine: The Future of our Partnership with Machines
by Daniel Newman, Olivier Blanchard
Review
Grinnell: America’s Environmental Pioneer
by John Taliaferro
Review
Beyond the Valley
by Ramesh Srinivasan
Review
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
by Mike Isaac
Review
Data Science and Visual Computing
by David Kasik, John Dill, Rae Earnshaw
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
After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration
by Holly Jean Buck
Review
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All
by Arthur Holland Michel
Review
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
by Alain Bertaud
Review
The Last Butterflies
by Nick Haddad
Review
The Secret Lives of Planets: A User’s Guide to the Solar System
by Paul Murdin
Review
The Technology Trap
by Carl Benedikt Frey
Review
More From Less
by Andrew McAfee
Review
The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
by Ben Green
Review
The Remarkable Life of the Skin
by Monty Lyman
Review
Moving Violations
by Lee Vinsel
Review
Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities
by Peter Plastrik and John Cleveland
Review
The Big Ones
by Dr Lucy Jones
Review
Coal and Empire: The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America
by Peter A. Shulman
Review
The Maths of Life and Death
by Kit Yates
Review
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
by Naomi Klein
Review
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
by Bathsheba Demuth
Review
Wayfinding
by M. R. O'Connor
Review
Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
by Sarah Parcak
Review
Collecting Experiments: Making Big Data Biology
by Bruno J. Strasser
Review
Making Eden: How Plants Transformed a Barren Planet
by David Beerling
Review
The Crowd and the Cosmos
by Chris Lintott
Review
In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves
by Bill Streever
Review
The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
by Susan Hockfield
Review
Alexander von Humboldt: How the Most Famous Scientist of the Romantic Age Found the Soul of Nature
by Maren Meinhardt
Review
The Geography of Risk
by Gilbert M. Gaul
Review
Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines
by Tony Juniper
Review
We Are the Weather
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Review
The Environment: A History of the Idea
by Paul Warde, Libby Robin and Sverker Sörlin
Review
Inconspicuous Consumption
by Tatiana Schlossberg
Review
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
by Timothy C. Winegard
Review
Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Review
AIQ: How artificial intelligence works and how we can harness its power for a better world
by Nick Polson and James Scott
Review
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
by Peter Schouten, Ross D. E. MacPhee
Review
The Weather Machine: How We See Into the Future
by Andrew Blum
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
Every Breath You Take: A User’s Guide to the Atmosphere
by Mark Broomfield
Review
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
by Jon Gertner
Review
Applied Nanophotonics
by Sergey V. Gaponenko and Hilmi Volkan Demir
Review
The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild
by Thomas D. Seeley
Review
We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State
by Kai Strittmatter
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
Shark Research: Emerging Technologies and Applications for the Field and Laboratory
by Jeffery C. Carrier, Michael R. Heithaus, and Colin A. Simpfendorfer
Review
Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless
by Daniel Albert
Review
The Case for Space
by Robert Zubrin
Review

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