Sure thing (though it was my lovely wife that bought them, not me!): - Systems Engineering Demystified by Jon Holt - Essential Architecture and Principles of

Sure thing (though it was my lovely wife that bought them, not me!): - Systems Engineering Demystified by Jon Holt - Essential Architecture and Principles of Systems Engineering by C. E. Dickerson & Siyuan Ji - System Design & Management: An Introduction to Systems Engineering by Bob Parkinson On a somewhat related note I also got Difference & Repetition by Deleuze and Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead, but they're more philosophical than practical.