Engineering College

A plain‑English guide that reveals the hidden physics inside everyday machines—so you can finally see how the hardware around you actually works. Machines shape almost everything you touch: the car in the driveway, the furnace in the basement, the refrigerator humming in the kitchen, the power plant miles away that keeps the lights on. Behind every one of them is the quiet, elegant discipline that turns physical law into working hardware. This book is a plain-English tour of that discipline, written for readers who want to understand what is really happening inside pumps, engines, coils...

The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future. The rise of manufacturing...

This volume will introduce you to the class of materials known as Advanced Composite Materials. These materials play a critical role in our industrialized world, fulfilling unique material requirements for many engineering applications. Common examples include fiberglass boats, windmill blades and major components on military and civilian aircraft. This important class of materials also plays an important role in the fabrication of computers, cabling, structural beams, bullet-proof armor, spacecraft and satellites, automobiles, shipping containers, and pressure vessels. While there are many...

Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea—a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASA—past security...

From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep...

“[A] remarkable story….An honest and harrowing memoir of a life-changing ordeal.” —Arizona Republic The spellbinding New York Times bestseller, Out of Captivity is the amazing true story of Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell, three American civilian contractors who were held...

Finals week was supposed to be caffeine, equations, and five straight days of not ruining my life. Then Gavin Price kissed me. I’m Mina Shah, electrical engineering senior, professional overplanner, and the reason our study room has color-coded flash cards. Gavin is my gorgeous, infuriating study partner, capstone co-lead, and the reason I’ve spent two years pretending I don’t notice what his T-shirts do to my concentration. At 1:47 in the morning, pretending stops. One kiss turns into a very hands-on experiment in stress relief. By breakfast, Gavin and I have rules: The benefits end ...

Kari Byron—former host of the wildly popular, iconic cult classic MythBusters—shows how to crash test your way through life, no lab coat required. Kari Byron’s story hasn’t been a straight line. She started out as a broke artist living in San Francisco, writing poems on a crowded bus on...

Read it. Rhyme it. Remember it. The Brain-Science Method That Makes Organic Chemistry Finally Click. Organic chemistry is one of the most failed college science courses. Textbooks overload you with dense details, long mechanisms, and endless exceptions—without showing you how to make any of it stick. Rereading doesn’t build understanding. It just burns time.

Somewhere Inside is the electrifying, never-before-told story of Laura Ling’s capture by the North Koreans in March 2009, and the efforts of her sister, journalist Lisa Ling, to secure Laura’s release by former President Bill Clinton. This riveting true account of the first ever trial of an...

A simple walk around the block set journalist Spike Carlsen, bestselling author of A Splintered History of Wood, off to investigate everything he could about everything we take for granted in our normal life—from manhole covers and recycling bins to bike lanes and stoplights. In this...

A former Delta Force black ops member takes us inside America’s covert drone war in this headline-making, never-before-told account for fans of Zero Dark Thirty and Lone Survivor, told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal writer and filled with eye-opening and sure to be...

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a great way to explore the subject of Astronomy. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical undergraduate course in Astronomy. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized chapters. There are quizzes and key takeaways following each chapter to review questions commonly tested and drive home key points.

From one of the world’s foremost experts on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder, comes an intimate and astonishingly frank examination of her own rape at 15, the life of her rapist, and how both shaped her life and work. Jessica Stern is one of the world’s foremost experts on...

Three great historians write compelling, relevent biographies of three of our most important and famous presidents in this collection of Eminent Lives Michael Korda brings his acclaimed storytelling talents to the life of Ulysses S. Grant—a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of...

The Girl I Met at IIT Madras Some love stories begin with a simple question Some people enter your life with a grand entrance. Others simply ask for directions. On his very first day at IIT Madras, Krishnan never imagined that helping a nervous newcomer find the Computer Science department would become the beginning of the most important journey of his life. Anjali had arrived carrying dreams, uncertainties, and the hope of building a future. Neither of them knew that one ordinary conversation would slowly blossom into an unforgettable story. Set against the vibrant backdrop of one of ...

“Enthralling . . . Here we find an ugly, walleyed existentialist philosopher, the elegantly beautiful author of The Second Sex and the Gallic equivalent of a bevy of young starlets who share the bed of one or the other--or sometimes both. Readers will turn these pages alternately mesmerized...

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a great way to explore the subject of college-level evolution. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical undergraduate Evolution course. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized chapters. There are key takeaways following each chapter to drive home key points and quizzes to review commonly tested questions.

From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA’s most vital and exciting missions to the Red Planet—a wondrous chronicle of unprecedented scientific discovery and the search for evidence of life on Mars. “There are...

A child can now talk to powerful AI systems that explain, draft, design, code, research, plan, and create across many subjects. That power can make a young mind lazy, confused, dependent, or careless. It can also help a young person become a disciplined builder. AI Is My Builder is a 2026 flagship guide for children, students, parents, teachers, and young founders who want to use AI for real value. Written in language readable from elementary school through college, the book teaches the reader how to talk to AI clearly, learn from it without copying, command it with context and constraints,...