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 Makerโ€™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 Desktopโ€“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 Beginnerโ€™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
  • Americaโ€™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 Americaโ€™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 Citizenโ€™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