The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are.

The Island at the Center of the World

The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure

George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

The Essential Engineer

Johnstown Flood

To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure

City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center

Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering

The Quiet Don: The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino

The Toothpick: Technology and Culture

The Central Park Five

Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering

The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing

Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal

An Engineer's Alphabet: Gleanings from the Softer Side of a Profession

Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt