明确的工程， 经过格雷迪·希尔豪斯（Grady Hillhouse）, No Starch Press
Perhaps the best way to describe明确的工程作为一个问题的答案：“我在看什么？”如果您像我一样，您有家庭成员和熟人，他们认为您的工程学位会自动使您完全了解他们每天看到的基础设施的功能。因此，您发现自己不断受到有关每个小玩意的角色的烦人的问题
到前院的公用杆上，城市如何使水进入城镇边缘的水塔，以及所有设备在附近的公用事业站所做的工作。现在，由于希尔豪斯（Hillhouse）的书，即使您在工程课程中从未遇到过任何一个，您也可以自信地解释这一问题。
The book covers eight areas having structures and buildings you’re likely to encounter everyday and have some curiosity about: Aspects of the electrical grid, communications between your home and office, roadways, bridges and tunnels, railways, dams and water-related structures, municipal waste water and the water system, and construction.
作家格雷迪·希尔豪斯（Grady Hillhouse）是一名土木工程师和专业沟通者，他在以不涉及数学的方式解释所有这些领域方面做得很好。您不需要工程背景来理解他的任何解释，他在他所涵盖的任何学科中都没有太多背景，例如，他花时间在网格部分中解释AC电流。
Nevertheless, though the book contains not a single equation, it has enough detail to satisfy even a lot of detailed questions about infrastructure. In the electrical grid section, it covers the equipment in a substation, what’s on a typical utility pole, the role of electrical distribution equipment you’re likely to see, the workings of power stations, and more. It also covers the communication gear you see on cell towers and lashed to suburban utility poles. The section on roadways covers how highways get laid out as well as the construction of highway earthwork and retaining walls. By reading Hillhouse’s book, you’ll also understand how highway tunnels and bridges are constructed, as well as coastal ports, locks, levees and floodwalls, dams, and how your city treats its sewage and waste water.
总而言之书本r engineers who don’t want to seem like ignoramuses to some of their pesky relatives.
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