Start with high-confidence manufacturing books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Perfectionists
Simon Winchester
How Things Are Made
Tim Minshall
Makers
René Ruiz, Chris Anderson
Die Makers Handbook
Jerry Arnold
The Gen AI Manufacturing Revolution
Matthew Alberts
3d CAD With Autodesk 123d
Jesse Au, Emily Gertz
The Titanium Economy
Asutosh Padhi, Gaurav Batra
Designing Electronics That Work
Hunter Scott
Computational Modelling of Additive Manufacturing
Wentao Yan, Yanming Zhang
Models, Methods and Tools for Product Service Design
Laura Cattaneo, Sergio Terzi