Suggested Reading

Below is suggested reading for those interested in the book’s topics. Some of these are already referenced within the book but are listed again below.


  1. Adams, Scott. 2019. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America. New York, NY: Portfolio/Penguin.
  2. Florman, Samuel C. 1994. The Existential Pleasures of Engineering. Second. New York, NY, USA: St. Martin’s Griffin.
  3. Janis, Irving L. 1972. Victims of GroupThink: A Psychological Study of Foreign-Policy Decisions and Fiascoes. Boston, MA, USA: Houghton Mifflin.
  4. Janis, Irving L. (Yale University). 1982. Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes. Second. Boston, MA, USA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
  5. Nader, Ralph. 1965. Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile. First. New York, NY, USA: Grossman.
  6. Petroski, Henry (Duke University). 1982. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. New York, NY, USA: Vintage Books.
  7. Pirsig, Robert M. 1974. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. New York, NY, USA: Morrow Quill.
  8. Rosling, Hans, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Ronnlund. 2018. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. New York, NY, USA: Flatiron Books.
  9. Thaler, Richard H., and Cass R. Sunstein. 2008. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press.

Engineering Ethics and Design for Product Safety (DFPS), Kenneth L. d'Entremont, 2021, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY


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