📚 Design and Construction

Books with design and construction on their catalogue record, first published between 1929 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject design and construction in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 41,548 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The construction of buildings	Robin Barry	1958	34
	The Soul of a New Machine	Tracy Kidder	1981	23
	The motor vehicle	K. Newton	1929	18
	SAE handbook	Society of Automotive Engineers	1973	18
	Civil Engineering	Alan Williams	1999	17
	Hackers	Steven Levy	1984	15
	Foundation design and construction	Tomlinson, M. J.	1963	13
	Modern automotive technology	Duffy, James E.	1993	13
	Aircraft propulsion	Saeed Farokhi	2008	13
	Building a PC for dummies	Mark L. Chambers	1998	11
	Classroom assessment	Popham, W. James.	1995	10
	Auto mechanics fundamentals	Martin W. Stockel	1963	9
	Unsafe at any speed	Ralph Nader	1965	9
	Race and Rally Car Source Book	Allan Staniforth	1983	9
	Airport engineering	Norman J. Ashford	1984	9
	Assessment of student achievement	Norman Edward Gronlund	1998	9
	Race car engineering and mechanics	Paul Van Valkenburgh	1976	8
	Aircraft Design	Daniel P. Raymer	1989	8
	How to Build a Car	Adrian Newey	2017	8
	Boatbuilding	Howard Irving Chapelle	1941	7
	Jig and fixture design	Edward G. Hoffman	1980	7
	Jane Asher's fancy dress	Jane Asher	1983	7
	Automotive Technology	James D. Halderman	1999	7
	Systematic layout planning	Richard Muther	1961	6
	HVAC systems design handbook	Haines, Roger W.	1988	6
	Hospital facilities	David M. Stipanuk	1992	6
	How to Make Built-In Furniture	Mario Dal Fabbro	1955	5
	Plant design and economics for chemical engineers	Max Stone Peters	1958	5
	Auto fundamentals	Martin W. Stockel	1996	5
	Hardware/Software Co-Design for Data Flow Dominated Embedded Systems	Ralf Niemann	1998	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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