/tg/-approved non-fiction

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There are book recommendation threads every once in a while, but I don't remember seeing any dedicated to /tg/-approved non-fiction.

You must have read some interesting books and articles while building settings. Time to post them.

I'll start with Ignition!, a history of rocket propellants. If some people in history have been mekboyz, it's these scientists and engineers.

From the preface (by Isaac Asimov):
"There are, after all, some chemicals that explode shatteringly, some
that flame ravenously, some that corrode hellishly, some that poison
sneakily, and some that stink stenchily. As far as I know, though, only
liquid rocket fuels have all these delightful properties combined into
one delectable whole. "