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Civil Engineering Books

Freeing Energy
by Bill Nussey
Review
Atlas of the Invisible
by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti
Review
Humanity Reimagined: Where We Go From Here
by Martin Fiore
Review
An Ugly Truth
by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
Review
People Count
by Susan Landau
Review
Data Action: Using Data for Public Good
by Sarah Williams
Review
About Time
by David Rooney
Review
Recommendation Engines
by Michael Schrage
Review
Architecture and Energy
by Barnabas Calder
Review
After Cooling
by Eric Dean Wilson
Review
Silicon Values
by Jillian C. York
Review
The Perfect Police State
by Geoffrey Cain
Review
The Tyranny of Big Tech
by Josh Hawley
Review
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
by Bimal Bhattacharya, George P. Petropoulos, Heiko Balzter, Prashant K. Srivastava, Prem Chandra Pandey
Review
Holding Back the River
by Tyler J. Kelley
Review
The Atlas of AI
by Kate Crawford
Review
The Data Detective
by Tim Harford
Review
Data Feminism
by Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein
Review
Cultural Analytics
by Lev Manovich
Review
The Practice of Crowdsourcing
by Omar Alonso
Review
Metropolis
by Ben Wilson
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
Lights Out
by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann
Review
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
by Catherine Coleman Flowers
Review
Healthy Buildings
by John D. Macomber, Joseph G. Allen
Review
Everyday Chaos
by David Weinberger
Review
Computer Age Statistical Inference
by Bradley Efron and Trevor Hastie
Review
Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way
by Will Kurt
Review
Iron Empires
by Michael Hiltzik
Review
A Furious Sky
by Eric Jay Dolin
Review
Bunker
by Bradley L. Garrett
Review
Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils
by David Farrier
Review
Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
by Mario Alejandro Ariza
Review
T-Minus AI
by Michael Kanaan
Review
Online Courts and the Future of Justice
by Richard Susskind
Review
On Cold Iron: A Story of Hubris and the 1907 Quebec Bridge Collapse
by Dan Levert
Review
The Information Trade
by Alexis Wichowski
Review
Hacking Planet Earth
by Thomas M. Kostigen
Review
Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State
by Barton Gellman
Review
The Man Who Solved the Market
by Gregory Zuckerman
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
The Deep Learning Revolution
by Terrence J. Sejnowski
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
The New International System of Units (SI)
by Ernst O. Göbel and Uwe Siegner
Review
Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies
by Dr. Chase Cunningham
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
Handprints on Hubble
by Kathryn D. Sullivan
Review
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
by Anna Wiener
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
DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story
by Nancy Duarte
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
Fire Doesn’t Innovate
by Kip Boyle
Review
Saving America’s Cities
by Lizabeth Cohen
Review
The Costs of Connection
by Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias
Review
The Reality Game
by Samuel Woolley
Review
Beyond the Valley
by Ramesh Srinivasan
Review
Data Science and Visual Computing
by David Kasik, John Dill, Rae Earnshaw
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 Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
by Ben Green
Review
Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities
by Peter Plastrik and John Cleveland
Review
The Maths of Life and Death
by Kit Yates
Review
Wayfinding
by M. R. O'Connor
Review
Collecting Experiments: Making Big Data Biology
by Bruno J. Strasser
Review
The Crowd and the Cosmos
by Chris Lintott
Review
The Geography of Risk
by Gilbert M. Gaul
Review
AIQ: How artificial intelligence works and how we can harness its power for a better world
by Nick Polson and James Scott
Review
The Weather Machine: How We See Into the Future
by Andrew Blum
Review
We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State
by Kai Strittmatter
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
Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media
by Nicholas Diakopoulos
Review
Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe
by Bob Berman
Review
Sun and Moon: A Story of Astronomy, Photography and Cartography
by Mark Holborn
Review
Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science
by Robyn Arianrhod
Review
Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga
by Laura Watts
Review
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
by Caroline Criado Perez
Review
Citizen Science: Southeast Asia and American Power
by Janis L. Dickinson and Rick Bonney
Review
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
by David Spiegelhalter
Review
Introduction to Data Mining
by Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach, and Vipin Kumar
Review
Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future: The Untapped Potential of Big Data Analytics and Context–Aware Computing for Advancing Sustainability (The Urban Book Series)
by Simon Elias Bibri
Review
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
by Will Hunt
Review
The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century
by Mark Lamster
Review
No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future
by Samuel I. Schwartz and Karen Kelly
Review
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
by James Bridle
Review
Machine Translation
by Thierry Poibeau
Review
Driving Eureka!: Problem-Solving with Data-Driven Methods & the Innovation Engineering System
by Doug Hall
Review
Big Data Factories: Collaborative Approaches (Computational Social Sciences)
by Sorin Adam Matei, Nicolas Jullien, and Sean P. Goggins
Review
Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles – The Algorithms That Control Our Lives
by David Sumpter
Review
Smart Cities: Foundations, Principles, and Applications
by Houbing Song, Ravi Srinivasan, Tamim Sookoor, and Sabina Jeschke
Review
18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
by Christopher Dewdney
Review
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind
Review
Palaces for the People: How To Build a More Equal and United Society
by Eric Klinenberg
Review
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
by Bruce Schneier
Review
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
by Hannah Fry
Review
Bitwise: A Life in Code
by David Auerbach
Review
Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age
by Michael Chertoff
Review
Handbook of Optical Engineering, Second Edition, Two Volume Set (Optical Science and Engineering)
by Daniel Malacara-Hernández and Brian J. Thompson
Review
The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
by Anna Clark
Review
Who Cares About Particle Physics?
by Pauline Gagnon
Review
Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
by Matthew Salganik
Review
The Perfect Weapon: war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age
by David E. Sanger
Review
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Thomas Ramge
Review
AI and Analytics: Accelerating Business Decisions
by Sameer Dhanrajani
Review
For the Love of Trains: A Celebration of the World’s Railways
by Ray Hamilton
Review
MoneyBall Medicine: Thriving in the New Data-Driven Healthcare Market
by Harry Glorikian, Malorye Allison Branca
Review
The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can’t Do
by Edward Tenner
Review
Handbook of Optical Metrology: Principles and Applications, Second Edition
by Toru Yoshizawa
Review
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
by Roma Agrawal
Review
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
by Geoffrey West
Review

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