History's Worst Inventions and the People Who Made Them

Invention and Innovation A Brief History of Hype and Failure

Vaclav Smil

The world's worst parents

David Walliams

Humans

Tom Phillips

Technology and Society

Andrew (University of Alberta) Ede

Science

Ian McEwan

Technology

Eric Schatzberg

The basic laws of human stupidity

Cipolla, Carlo M.

30-Second Great Inventions

David Boyle

Wonderland

Steven Johnson

World's Worst Inventions

Jack Watkins

A little history of the world

E.H. Gombrich

Great Naval Blunders

Geoffrey Regan

Bad history

The History Book

DK

History without the Boring Bits

Ian Crofton

Mindless

Simon Head

The Blunders of Our Governments

Anthony King

Worst. Person. Ever

Douglas Coupland

A history of the world in 100 objects

Neil MacGregor

Adapt

Harford, Tim

History's Greatest Deceptions, and the People Who Planned Them

Eric Chaline

Home Truths An Alternative History of Every House

Bill Laws

Technology a world history

Daniel R. Headrick

1001 Inventions that Changed the World

Jack Challoner

The Book of General Ignorance

John Lloyd

The Shock Of The Old

Edgerton, David

Monsters

Simon Sebag

A short history of nearly everything ; A short history of nearly everything

Bill Bryson

A Short History of Progress

Ronald Wright

The Book of Inventions

Ian Harrison

The World's Stupidest Inventions

Adam Hart-Davis

In Search of Stupidity

Chapman, Merrill R. (Rick)

Inventing the 20th century

Stephen Van Dulken

Invention by Design

Henry Petroski

Patent nonsense - A catalogue of inventions that failed to change the world

Clive Anderson

Inventors From Da Vinci to Bird

Struan Reid

Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions

Degrace, Peter

American Genesis A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970

Thomas Parke Hughes