If you could have only 3 textbooks which one would you pick?

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(02-14-2023 08:32 PM)pier4r Wrote:  Anyway those other categories didn't raise any interest.

I really haven't read any textbook since I left university and that was 35 (or so) years ago. There is not a single one I can really remember and therefore no three that I would pick even if I had to.

But memorable non-fiction books there are quite a few. Here are three that I certainly will read again (and maybe even a third time):

- André Turcat: Concorde, essais et battailles (https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/27...bl_vppi_i3) - about developing and flight testing the Concorde. To my knowledge it was only ever published in french language.
- David A. Mindell: Digital Apollo: Human and machine in spaceflight (https://www.amazon.de/Digital-Apollo-Hum...0262516101)
- Tom Wolfe: The Right Stuff (https://www.amazon.de/Right-Stuff-Tom-Wo...0553275569)

And, because it was mentioned above, if I had to take textbooks to an inhabited island, one would be about survival in the wilderness, the second about shipbuilding and the third about self-medication with ready made tools and chemicals :-) (I never read books from these departments and therefore can't recommend any).

Regards
Max