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