@clive Can vouch. Both chock-full of solid science and very engagingly written. Also a little sickening in places; for example, he devotes an entire chapter to how the Nazis developed artificial butter from ... coal.
@clive There is one book that comes to mind in the architectural planing / ergonomics / design / construction space that fits this bill exactly. "Bauentwurfslehre by Neufert" ("Architects Data" in engl.).
A massive amount of information, heavily illustrated, that one would have a hard time piecing together from online sources.
Originating from the Bauhaus school in the 1930's it is still updated today and afaik still used as a textbook in architecture here in Germany.
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