http://www.amazon.com/Connections-James-Burke/dp/0743299558
http://www.amazon.com/Connections-James-Burke/dp/0316116726
Our university offered an engineering class that used this as the textbook.
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http://www.amazon.com/Connections-James-Burke/dp/0743299558