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Making and Manufacturing as Socio-cultural Practice: Book list
Making and Makers
To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure by Henry Petroski
Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing by Henry Petroski
Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson
The Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the New World of Crafters, Hackers, and Tinkerers by Mark Hatch
Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroomby Sylvia Libow Martinez
Design, Make, Play: Growing the Next Generation of STEM Innovatorsby Margaret Honey
The Maker’s Manual: A Practical Guide to the New Industrial Revolutionby Paolo Aliverti
Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing by Hod Lipson
Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop–from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication by Neil Gershenfeld
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik
Fabrication Engineering at the Micro- and Nanoscale: Fourth Edition by Stephen A. Campbell
Engineering: A Beginner’s Guide by Natasha McCarthy
Cultures and Histories of Making, Manufacturing, and Engineering
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America by Leo Marx
The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By by Scott A. Shane
Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line by Amy E. Slaton
America’s Assembly Line by David E. Nye
America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings by David E. Nye
Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940 by David E. Nye
Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945 by Ruth Oldenziel
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave by Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism by Merritt Roe Smith
On the Outskirts of Engineering: Learning Identity, Gender, and Power via Engineering Practice by Karen L. Tonso
Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America’s Civilizing Mission by Michael Adas
Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women by Amy Sue Bix
American Technological Sublime by David E. Nye
Technology Choices: Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technology By Diane E. Bailey and Paul M. Leonardi
Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State by Nicholas A. Ashford and Ralph P. Hall
The Citizen’s Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century by Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, and Douglas L. Kruse
One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Second Edition by Peter Singer