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Transportation Books

Across the Airless Wilds
by Earl Swift
Review
Power Play
by Tim Higgins
Review
A Brief History of Motion
by Tom Standage
Review
The Burning Blue
by Kevin Cook
Review
Test Gods
by Nicholas Schmidle
Review
Liftoff
by Eric Berger
Review
The Mission
by David W. Brown
Review
Telling Aircraft Tails
by Guy Halford-MacLeod
Review
Cathedrals of Steam
by Christian Wolmar
Review
Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car
by Alex Davies
Review
The Drone Age
by Michael J. Boyle
Review
Empires of the Sky
by Alexander Rose
Review
Spacefarers
by Christopher Wanjek
Review
Chasing New Horizons
by Alan Stern, David Grinspoon
Plane Crash: The Forensics of Aviation Disasters
by George Bibel and Captain Robert Hedges
Review
Insane Mode
by Hamish McKenzie
Review
Beyond the Known
by Andrew Rader
Review
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
by Mike Isaac
Review
Moving Violations
by Lee Vinsel
Review
In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves
by Bill Streever
Review
Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless
by Daniel Albert
Review
The Case for Space
by Robert Zubrin
Review
Apollo: To the Moon in 50 Objects
by Teasel E. Muir-Harmony
Review
Apollo 11: The Inside Story
by David Whitehouse
Review
No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future
by Samuel I. Schwartz and Karen Kelly
Review
NASA Operations Manual
by David Baker
Review
Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World’s Fastest Clipper Ship
by Steven Ujifusa
Review
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
by Keith O'Brien
Review
The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future
by Roger D. Launius
Review
Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car–And How It Will Reshape Our World
by Lawrence Burns
Review
Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World
by Peter Moore
Review
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
by Simon Winchester
Review
For the Love of Trains: A Celebration of the World’s Railways
by Ray Hamilton
Review
Understanding Automotive Electronics: An Engineering Perspective
by William B Ribbens
Review
Britain’s 100 Best Railway Stations
by Simon Jenkins
Review
Faster, Higher, Farther: The Inside Story of the Volkswagen Scandal
by Jack Ewing
Review
The Car Hacking Handbook: A Guide for the Penetration Tester
by Craig Smith
Review
Science Calling: Climate, Environment, Energy: (there is hope)
by Vladimir Panjkovic
Review
Comet: Unseen Images From The Archives
by Bruce Hales-Dutton
Review
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
by Mark Vanhoenacker
Review
Car Wars
by John J. Fialka
Review
Street Smart
by Samuel I. Schwartz and William Rosen
Review
Sonic Wind: The Story of John Paul Stapp and How a Renegade Doctor Became the Fastest Man on Earth
by Craig Ryan
Review
Drone Theory
by Grégoire Chamayou
Review
The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough
Review
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by Ashlee Vance
Review
Beyond – Our Future in Space
by Chris Impey
Review
Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
by Margaret Lazarus Dean
Review
The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
by Steve LeVine
Review
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
by Jim Bell
Review
Soviet Space Dogs
by Olesya Turkina
Review
Infinite Worlds: The People and Places of Space Exploration
by Michael Soluri
Review
Voyaging in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science
by David Knight
Review
Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program
by David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek
Review
Drone Warfare
by John Kaag and Sarah Kreps
Review
The Life of the Automobile: The Complete History of the Motor Car
by Steven Parissien
Review
Predator
by Richard Whittle
Review
Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity’s Chief Engineer
by Rob Manning and William L. Simon
Review
Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction
by Charles L. Adler
Review
Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission
by Marc Kaufman
Review
Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of our Sun
by Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff
Review
Innovation the NASA Way: Harnessing the Power of Your Organization for Breakthrough Success
by Rod Pyle
Review
Crowded Orbits: Conflict and Cooperation in Space
by James Clay Moltz
Review
Nanotechnology in Eco-Efficient Construction: Materials, Processes and Applications
by Fernando Pacheco Torgal, M. V. Diamanti, A. Nazari, and C. Goran-Granqvist
Review
Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community
by Karen T. Litfin
Review
Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
by Lawrence Goldstone
Review
Coherent Doppler Wind Lidars in a Turbulent Atmosphere
by Viktor Banakh and Igor Smalikho
Review
I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
by Richard Snow
Review
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science Of Life In Space
by Mary Roach
Review
The New Science of Cities
by Michael Batty
Review
Safe Is Not an Option
by RandSimberg
Review
Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers
by William J. Clancey
Review
Women In Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures
by Karen Bush Gibson
Review
The Physics of War: From Arrows to Atoms
by Barry Parker
Review
Spin Glasses and Complexity
by Daniel L. Stein and Charles M. Newman
Review
Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011
by Rick Houston
Review
Dreams of Other Worlds: The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration
by Chris Impey and Holly Henry
Review
To Orbit and Back Again: How the Space Shuttle Flew in Space
by Davide Sivolella
Review
Apollo 13 Owners’ Workshop Manual: An engineering insight into how NASA saved the crew of the failed Moon mission
by David Baker
Review
Crossover
by Cecil Balmond
Review
Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
by Jason Fagone
Review
Biomass-Based Biocomposites
by Vijay Kumar Thakur
Review
High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) for Energy Applications (Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy)
by Ziad Melhem
Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future
by Richard Heinberg
Review
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
by Rose George
Review
Carfree Cities
by J.H. Crawford
Review
Slow Light: Invisibility, Teleportation, And Other Mysteries Of Light
by Sidney Perkowitz
Review
101 Things I Learned in Engineering School
by John Kuprenas, Matthew Frederick
Review
The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story
by Lily Koppel
Review
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
by Richard Holmes
Review
Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Female Rocket Scientist
by George D. Morgan
Review
The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space
by Michelle L. Evans
Developments in Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites in Civil Engineering
by Nasim Uddin
Review
Titan Unveiled: Saturn’s Mysterious Moon Explored
by Jacqueline Mitton, Ralph Lorenz
Review
Riding the Waves: A Life in Sound, Science, and Industry
by Leo Beranek
Review
Secrets of the Hoary Deep: A Personal History of Modern Astronomy
by Riccardo Giacconi
Review
The Efficiency Trap: Finding a Better Way to Achieve a Sustainable Future
by Steve Hallett
Review
The Great American Jet Pack: The Quest for the Ultimate Individual Lift Device
by Steve Lehto
Review
Timber in Refurbishment
by Ruth Slavid
Review
Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy
by Seth Fletcher
Review
Advanced Structural Ceramics
by Bikramjit Basu and Kantesh Balani
Review
Wood in Construction: How to Avoid Costly Mistakes
by Jim Coulson
Review
Characteristics and Analysis of Non-Flammable Polymers
by T.R. Crompton
Review
Corrosion Prevention of Magnesium Alloys
by Guang-Ling Song
Review
Mathematical Excursions to the World’s Great Buildings
by Alexander J. Hahn
Modeling Ships and Space Craft: The Science and Art of Mastering the Oceans and Sky
by Gina Hagler
Review
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
by Paul Kennedy
Review
Engineering: A Very Short Introduction
by David Blockley
Review
Portland Cement: Composition, Production and Properties
by Leslie Struble, Paul Livesey, and Peter del Strother
Review
Jolt!: The Impending Dominance of the Electric Car and Why America Must Take Charge
by James Billmaier
Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us
by Maggie Koerth-Baker
Review

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