I didn't know about "Unwritten Laws of Engineering" - skimming through some of it, this is an excellent book and I wish I knew about it before.
I was fortunate enough to be around senior engineers who took upon themselves to mentor junior engineers like myself. Now that I'm in their shoes, I find that the engineering landscape has changed quite a lot (especially in software) and often find that junior engineers don't see themselves needing to be mentored and sometimes even offended by recommendations.
I think some of this can be seen in this thread as well - some are commenting about how bad these recommendations are, and some even about the general practice of recommending books (how dare you!).
Given that the OP is just talking about books that he felt changed "his" career, I think it's really not something to be challenged and disagreed in such manners.
I was fortunate enough to be around senior engineers who took upon themselves to mentor junior engineers like myself. Now that I'm in their shoes, I find that the engineering landscape has changed quite a lot (especially in software) and often find that junior engineers don't see themselves needing to be mentored and sometimes even offended by recommendations.
I think some of this can be seen in this thread as well - some are commenting about how bad these recommendations are, and some even about the general practice of recommending books (how dare you!).
Given that the OP is just talking about books that he felt changed "his" career, I think it's really not something to be challenged and disagreed in such manners.