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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
by Henry Petroski
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by Walter Isaacson
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
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by Natalie Angier
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Why Things Break
by Mark Eberhart
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
by Steven Shapin
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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
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To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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Objectivity
by Lorraine Daston
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