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Eliot Landrum's "My Engineering Reading List"

Books I find useful for my job as a Controls Engineer.
1. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition
by Frederick P. Brooks
  
2. The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
  
3. The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
  
4. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
  
5. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
  
6. Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
by Steven Johnson
  
7. Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books)
by Edwin Hutchins
  
8. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition
by Edward R. Tufte
  
9. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
by Edward R. Tufte
  
10. Visual & Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making
by Edward R. Tufte
  
11. Envisioning Information
by Edward R. Tufte
  
12. The Cognitive Style of Power Point
by Edward R. Tufte
  
13.
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 Beautiful Evidence
by Edward R. Tufte
  
14. Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data
by Stephen Few
  
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Created by Eliot Landrum on May 02, 2006.