Engineering and the Liberal Arts: A Technologist’s Guide to History, Literature, Philosophy, Art, and Music (1968) McGraw-Hill

 The Existential Pleasures of Engineering  (1976, second edition 1994) St. Martin’s Press

 Blaming Technology: The Irrational Search for Scapegoats (1981) St. Martin’s Press

 The Civilized Engineer (1987) St. Martin’s Press

 The Introspective Engineer (1990) St. Martin’s Press

The Aftermath: A Novel of Survival (2001) St. Martin’s Press

 Good Guys, Wiseguys, and Putting Up Buildings: A Life in Construction (2012) St. Martin’s Press