Engineering, Environment & Energy Books

How to Grow a Robot
by Mark H. Lee
Review
The Data Detective
by Tim Harford
Review
Robots in Space
by Dr Ezzy Pearson
Review
Liftoff
by Eric Berger
Review
Birdsong in a Time of Silence
by Steven Lovatt
Review
Data Feminism
by Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein
Review
Ice: Tales from a Disappearing World
by Marco Tedesco
Review
The Uncertainty Mindset
by Vaughn Tan
Review
Heartwarming
by Hans Rocha Ijzerman
Review
Cultural Analytics
by Lev Manovich
Review
The Mission
by David W. Brown
Review
Count Down
by Shanna H. Swan, Stacey Colino
Review
Grand Transitions
by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Vaclav Smil, Vaclav Smil
Review
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Review
The New Climate War
by Michael E. Mann
Review
The Practice of Crowdsourcing
by Omar Alonso
Review
Telling Aircraft Tails
by Guy Halford-MacLeod
Review
How to Prepare for Climate Change
by David Pogue
Review
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
by Bill Gates
Review
How to Astronaut
by Terry Virts
Review
Beloved Beasts
by Michelle Nijhuis
Review
The Carbon Club
by Marian Wilkinson
Review
Metropolis
by Ben Wilson
Review
Metazoa
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Review
Nanophotonic Chemical Reactions
by Takashi Yatsui
Review
The Hype Machine
by Sinan Aral
Review
Predict and Surveil
by Sarah Brayne
Review
Applied Predictive Modeling
by Max Kuhn and Kjell Johnson
Review
Cathedrals of Steam
by Christian Wolmar
Review
Waters of the World
by Sarah Dry
Review
Lights Out
by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann
Review
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
by Catherine Coleman Flowers
Review
AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by Peter Dauvergne
Review
Operation Moonglow
by Teasel Muir-Harmony
Review
Healthy Buildings
by John D. Macomber, Joseph G. Allen
Review
Expedition Deep Ocean
by Josh Young
Review
Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car
by Alex Davies
Review
What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots
by Laura Major and Julie Shah
Review
All We Can Save
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
Review
Nanoscale Energy Transport and Conversion
by Gang Chen
Review
Everyday Chaos
by David Weinberger
Review
Computer Age Statistical Inference
by Bradley Efron and Trevor Hastie
Review
The Genesis Quest
by Michael Marshall
Review
The Age of Wood
by Roland Ennos
Review
Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way
by Will Kurt
Review
Clean: The New Science of Skin
by James Hamblin
Review
The Next Great Migration
by Sonia Shah
Review
Iron Empires
by Michael Hiltzik
Review
ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor
by Michel Claessens
Review
A Furious Sky
by Eric Jay Dolin
Review
Bunker
by Bradley L. Garrett
Review
War in Space
by Bleddyn Bowen
Review
Cottongrass Summer
by Roy Dennis
Review
Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils
by David Farrier
Review
The Future Earth
by Eric Holthaus
Review
The Smallest Lights in the Universe
by Sara Seager
Review
Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
by Debora L. Spar
Review
Power to the People
by Audrey Kurth Cronin
Review
Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On
by Maxim Lapan
Review
Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
by Mario Alejandro Ariza
Review
World of Wonders
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Review
World of Wonders
by Sarah Stewart Johnson
Review
T-Minus AI
by Michael Kanaan
Review
Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis
by Erin Brockovich
Review
Mill Town
by Kerri Arsenault
Review
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
Review
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
Review
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
Review
The Green New Deal and Beyond
by Stan Cox
Review
Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State
by Barton Gellman
Review
Fathoms
by Rebecca Giggs
Review
The Future We Choose
by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
Review
The Drone Age
by Michael J. Boyle
Review
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
Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies
by Dr. Chase Cunningham
Review
Sex Robots and Vegan Meat
by Jenny Kleeman
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
Chasing New Horizons
by Alan Stern, David Grinspoon
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

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Methane pollution soars in US as shale drilling resumes
How Space Lasers Could Soon Beam Clean Power Down To Earth
Gallium Oxide: The Supercharged Semiconductor
What’s Good for the Ocean May Also Be Good for Business
Machine learning gets physical, starting with self-driving cars
The future of food is all about robot farmers and electrocuting weeds
Hydrogen: can the lightest gas turn heavy industry green?
Chasing After Carbon Nanotube FETs
Fukushima nuclear disaster haunts Japan’s climate change debate
China leads world’s biggest increase in wind power capacity
Global carbon emissions rebound to pre-lockdown levels
Batteries Or Hydrogen For Big (Clean) Trucks? Volvo Group Bets On Both
The Hottest Amenity From Developers? A Power Plant Made of Batteries.
Chiplets For The Masses
The race to scale up green hydrogen
Carbon Capture, Hydrogen, Fission Or Fusion: Which Can Take Us To Net-Zero By 2050?
Vertical farms nailed tiny salads. Now they need to feed the world
Is Mining The Ocean Bottom For Metals Really Better Than Mining On Land?
Fukushima’s Legacy: Japan’s Hard Turn Toward Renewables
A.I. Here, There, Everywhere
Wood burning at home now biggest cause of UK particle pollution
‘Green steel’: the race to clean up one of the world’s dirtiest industries
First UK homes with hydrogen boilers and hobs to be built by April
Breaking The 2nm Barrier
Solar’s flexibility can be agriculture’s gain
Medtech Miniaturization: How Tiny Devices Make a Big Impact
The race for green hydrogen
Advanced CMOS detectors enable next-generation astronomy
Next-generation planetary missions could hunt for gravitational waves, say astronomers
Balloon test flight plan under fire over solar geoengineering fears
Alphabet’s Loon Failed to Bring Internet to the World. What Went Wrong?
The Real Cost of Planting Trees
Electric Cars Are Coming, and Fast. Is the Nation’s Grid Up to It?
Cell and Gene Therapy Firms Gear up to Revolutionize Manufacturing
FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: the U.S. Military’s GPS Tests
China’s surging private space industry is out to challenge the US
Need a New Knee or Hip? A Robot May Help Install It
These five AI developments will shape 2021 and beyond
Carbon capture is vital to meeting climate goals, scientists tell green critics
What It’s Like To Live in a Cashless Society
Wind power overtakes coal in Texas electricity generation
‘Carbon-neutrality is a fairy tale’: how the race for renewables is burning Europe’s forests
Gravity Energy Storage Will Show Its Potential in 2021
Car manufacturing hit by global semiconductor shortage
SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics Compete to Build the Next Moon Lander
Health crisis: up to a billion tonnes of waste potentially burned in the open every year
10 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2021