Technology

Battery Technology & Energy Storage

• The Powerhouse by Steve LeVine 

• Charging Ahead by John Voelcker 

• Bottled Lightning by Seth Fletcher 

• Handbook of Battery Materials by Claus Daniel and Jürgen Besenhard 

• Battery Systems Engineering by Christopher Rahn 

• Electrochemical Energy Storage by Robert Huggins 

• Lithium-Ion Batteries by Gianfranco Pistoia 

• Energy Storage by Robert Huggins 

• Grid-Scale Energy Storage by Various IEA Authors 

Power Grid & Electrical Engineering

• Blackout by Marc Elsberg 

• The Power Makers by Maury Klein 

• AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War by Tom McNichol 

• Power System Analysis and Design by J. Duncan Glover 

• Smart Grid Fundamentals by Gilbert M. Masters 

• Electric Power Systems by Alexandra von Meier 

• Lights Out by Ted Koppel 

• Grid Down Power Up by David Crawford 

Artificial Intelligence & Autonomy

• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell 

• The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book by Andriy Burkov 

• AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee 

• Human Compatible by Stuart Russell 

• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher Bishop 

• Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow 

• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Sutton & Barto 

• The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson 

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff 

• Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil

• Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

• Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

• The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian

• The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos

• Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths

Nanotechnology & Advanced Manufacturing

• Nano: The Essentials by T. Pradeep 

• The Dance of Molecules by Ted Sargent 

• Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler 

• Introduction to Nanotechnology by Charles Poole 

• Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology by Goddard, Brenner, Lyshevski & Iafrate 

Technology Design & Development

• The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder

• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

• The Innovators by Walter Isaacson

• The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross

• The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab

• The Technology Trap by Carl Frey

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Protection

• Dark Territory by Fred Kaplan

• The Code Book by Simon Singh

• Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter

• The Fifth Domain by Richard Clarke & Robert Knake

• Sandworm by Andy Greenberg

• Command and Control by Eric Schlosser

• The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg