MUST READ	Year	ISBN
Walter Youngquist	Geodestinies: The Inevitable Control of Earth Resources over Nations & Individuals  (at www.TheSocialContract.com)	1997	894202995	National Book Co
Richard Heinberg	The Party's Over: Oil, war, and the Fate of Industrial Societies	2003	0865714827	New Society
Garrett Hardin	Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos	1995	195093852	Oxford University Press
Laurie Garrett	Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health  [especially the chapter on Russia]	2001	786884401	Hyperion
John Perlin	Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization	1991	674308921	Harvard University Press
Clive Ponting	A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations	1993	0140176608	Penguin Books
Donella Meadows	The Limits to Growth: The 30 year update	2004	193149858X	Chelsea Green
	Oil, Hubbert's Curve, Natural Gas
Julian Darley	High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis	2004	1931498539	Chelsea Green
Kenneth Deffeyes	Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage	2001	0691090866	Princeton University Press
Matthew Simons	The Case for a Coming Natural Gas Shortage   www.worldenergysource.com/articles/pdf/simmons_WE_v5n3.pdf
Daniel Yergin	The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power   [Pulitzer Prize winner]	1993	0671799320	Free Press
	Fossil Fuels and Food
David & Marshall Fisher	www.discover.com/recent_issue/index.html  select recent issues on left, 2001 issues, scroll down, select The Nitrogen Bomb from April 2001 Vol. 22 No. 4
John Gever	Beyond Oil: The Threat to Food and Fuel in the Coming Decades	1991	870812424	University Press of Colorado
Vaclav Smil	Global Population & the Nitrogen Cycle Scientific American Jul 1997 http://hollandimac.chem.rochester.edu/n2cycle.pdf
Vaclav Smil	Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production	2000	026219449X	MIT Press
Rich Pirog, et al	Food, Fuel, and Freeways     www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/leopold/pubinfo/papersspeeches/food_mil.pdf
David Pimentel	Food, Energy, and Society	1996	0870813862	University Press of Colorado
	What you can do
Post Carbon Institute	http://www.postcarbon.org/ select outposts or get involved
Oil awareness	http://oilawareness.meetup.com/
	World War III                            How likely is it that we'll avoid war over the remaining resources?
Lutz Kleveman	The New Great Game:  Blood and Oil in Central Asia	2003	0871139065	Atlantic Monthly Press
Michael Klare	Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict	2001	0805055754	Metropolitan Books
Chalmers Johnson	The Sorrows Of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic	2004	805070044	Metropolitan Books
	Politics                                        Why it's so hard to find a way out of our situation: the Human Political Animal
Michael Harris	Lament For An Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery: A True Story	1998	771039581	McClelland & Stewart
Stanton Glantz	Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles	2000	0520222865	University of California Press
Jack Doyle	Taken for a Ride: Detroit's Big Three and the Politics of Pollution	2000	1568581475	Four Walls Eight Windows
Dan Fagin	Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry manipulates science, bends the law, and endangers your health	1999	1567511627	Common Courage Press
James C. Scott	Seeing Like a State.  How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed.	1998	0300070160	Yale University Press
	Human Ecology                          Why it's so hard to find a way out of our situation: homo sapiens in nature
William Catton	Overshoot	1982	0252009886	University of Illinois Press
Tim Flannery	The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australian Lands and People	2002	0802139434	Grove Press
Judith Shapiro	Mao's War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China	2001	0521786800	Cambridge University Press
Shepherd Krech	The Ecological Indian: Myth and History	2000	0393321002	W. W. Norton
Michael Williams	Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis	2002	0226899268	University of Chicago Press
Tim Flannery	The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples	2001	0871137895	Atlantic Monthly Press
	Resource Allocation
David Landes	The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor	1998	0393040178	W. W. Norton
Jared Diamond	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies     [Pulitzer Prize winner]	1999	0393317552	W. W. Norton
	Energy If you don't know the laws of the universe, you're going to believe whoever says what you want to hear in the most compelling language.  To get up to speed, go to any bookstore, and depending on whether you're an Idiot or a Dummy, there are all sorts of basic guides to Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, etc]   Meanwhile, start with:
Don Lancaster	Introduction to Energy Fundamentals  www.tinaja.com/glib/energfun.pdf
M.Simpson & J.Kay	Availability, Exergy, the Second Law and all that...      www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/u/jjkay/pubs/exergy/
	Why there's not a technical fix
	Other sources of energy cannot deliver sufficient surpluses to replace the potent portable energy we know as gasoline and diesel. It is not generally understood that poorer quality energy sources can be critically dependant upon oil for their extraction, processing and distribution. In other words, oil is the precursor for other sources of energy; gas, coal, nuclear, solar, hydro, because these require oil fuel to create and maintain infrastructure. It also gives them the illusion of being "profitable".   http://www.unknownnews.net/040712a-fm.html
	Fusion A very important article from SCIENCE. Hydrogen, solar, wind, and other alternatives are also discussed.  The conclusion: fusion is our only hope to avoid Global Warming and keep western civilization going.
Martin Hoffert, et al	Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet   http://fire.pppl.gov/science_adv_energy_103102.pdf www.sciencemag.org     SCIENCE   VOL 298   1 November 2002
	Hydrogen.
Joseph J. Romm	Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate	2004	155963703X	Island Press
U.Bossel & B.Eliasson	Energy and the Hydrogen Economy www.methanol.org/pdfFrame.cfm?pdf=HydrogenEconomyReport2003.pdf
Wade Amos	Costs of Storing & Transporting Hydrogen     www.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/pdfs/25106.pdf
Amory Lovins	Twenty Hydrogen Myths      http://www.rmi.org/images/other/E-20HydrogenMyths.pdf
John R Wilson	Twenty Hydrogen Myths Challenged   http://www.evworld.com/library/20MythsChallenged_Wilson.rtf
Don Lancaster	The Hydrogen Scene: It's a Gas www.tinaja.com/glib/resbn88.pdf
Don Lancaster	Tech Musings (page 1) www.tinaja.com/glib/muse151.pdf
	Hydrogen Fuel Cell Safety     www.ott.doe.gov/otu/field_ops/pdfs/fcm06r0.pdf
	Biomass, Hydro, Wind, Solar, Thermal, and Photovoltaic Power
Howard Hayden	The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won't Run the World	2002	0971484503	Vales Lake
Ted Trainer	Renewable Energy: What Are the Limits? http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/D74.RENEWABLE-ENERGY.html
	Ethanol & Biomass    There isn't enough land to both feed people and produce vegetable oil or ethanol
Tad W.Patzek	Ethanol from Corn: Clean Renewable Fuel for the Future, or Drain on Our Resources and Pockets? www.wcpn.org/news/2003/07-09/images/ethanol/EthanolFromCorn.pdf
David Pimental	Energy and Dollar costs of Ethanol Production with corn hubbert.mines.edu/news/v98n2/mkh-new7.html
	Wind
Andrew Ferguson	www.optimumpopulation.org/  select energy on the left, select "OPT Research: Wind and Biomass" in the text, select "Wind Biomass energy capture" from the April 2003 issue
Pacific NW National Laboratory	Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States Where the wind blows, how strong, and when: many regions are not suitable for wind production                    rredc.nrel.gov/wind/pubs/atlas/atlas_index.html
	Nuclear
Richard Wolfson	Nuclear Choices: A Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Technology	1993	0262731088	MIT Press
	Net Energy: If it takes more energy to create or extract a source of energy than you get out if it, it's an energy sink.
Howard T Odum	1) Environment, power, and society    2) Systems Ecology, Energy Basis for Man & Nature
David Pimental	1) Food, energy, and society   2) Food and Energy Resources
	Middle East             How much longer will this region, with the majority of the remaining oil, remain stable?
Robert Baer	Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude	2004	1400052688	Three Rivers Press
Ahmed Rashid	Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia	2000	B0000DK3W8	Yale University Press
Dilip Hiro	Iraq: In the Eye of the Storm	2002	1560254777	Thunder's Mouth Press
David Pryce-Jones	The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs	2002	1566634407	Ivan R. Dee
	Population
Virginia Abernethy	Population Politics: The Choices That Shape Our Future	2000	765806037	Insight Books
Roy Beck & Leon Kolankiewicz	The Environmental Movement’s Retreat From Advocating U.S. Population Stabilization (1970-1998). The years surrounding 1970 marked the coming of age of the modern environmental movement.  As that movement approaches its fourth decade, perhaps the most striking change is the virtual abandonment by national environmental groups of U.S. population stabilization as an actively pursued goal.   www.population.org.au/pressrm/pub/RetreatfromStabilization.pdf
Garrett Hardin	3 books:  The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia, The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons, Stalking the Wild Taboo			Oxford University Press
Bill McKibben	A Special Moment in History   www.theatlantic.com/issues/98may/special1.htm
All links at:	www.mnforsustain.org/table_of_contents.htm   especially those by William Catton about Malthus
Thomas Homer-Dixon	Environment, Scarcity, and Violence	2001	0691089795	Princeton University Press
	Evolutionary Psychology & Biology
Robert Wright	The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life	1995	679763996	Peter Smith
Matt Ridley	The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation	1997	0670874493	Viking
Judith Harris	The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do	1998	0684844095	Free Press
Geoffrey Miller	The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature	2000	0385495161	Doubleday
David Barash	Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People	2001	038549517X	Anchor Books/Doubleday
Sarah Hrdy	Mother Nature.  A history of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection	1999	0679442650	Pantheon Books
Steven Pinker	How the Mind Works	1999	0393318486	W. W. Norton
	Violence
Lawrence Keeley	War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage	1997	195119126	Oxford University Press
Philip Gourevitch	We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda	1999	0312243359	Picador USA
Daniel Goldhagen	Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans & the Holocaust	1997	0679772685	Vintage Books
Wrangham & Peterson	Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence	1997	0395877431	Mariner Books
Michael Ghiglieri	The Dark Side of Man: Tracing the Origins of Male Violence	2000	0738203157	Perseus Publishing
Richard Rhodes	Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist	2000	0375702482	Vintage Books
	Science
Brian Greene	The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, & the Quest for the Ultimate Theory	2001	0613250028	Sagebrush Education Resources
Stephen Hawking	A Brief History of Time	1988	055305340X	Bantam
Laurie Garrett	The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance	1995	0140250913	Penguin Books
	BioInvasion & BioDiversity
Chris Bright	Life out of Bounds: BioInvasion in a Borderless World	1998	0393318141	W. W. Norton
Michael Novacek, et al	The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts	2001	1565845706	New Press
	Global Warming
Spencer R. Weart	The Discovery of Global Warming	2003	0674011570	Harvard University Press
	Critical Thinking
Nicholas Capaldi	The Art of Deception: An Introduction to Critical Thinking. How to Win an Argument, Defend a Case, ….	1987	0879754249	Prometheus Books
Robert Cialdini	Influence: The Art of Persuasion	1998	0688128165	Perennial Currents
Carl Sagan	The Demon-Haunted World:  Science as a Candle in the Dark	1996	039453512X	Random House
Michael Shermer	Why People Believe Weird Things. Pseudoscience, superstition and other confusions	1997	0716730901	W.H. Freeman & Company
	Evolution
Charles Darwin	On the Origin of Species & The Descent of Man
Jonathan Weiner	The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time  [Pulitzer Prize winner]	1994	0679400036	Alfred A. Knopf
Carl Zimmer	Parasite Rex. Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures	2000	0684856387	Free Press
	Putting it All Together
Edward O. Wilson	Consilience.  The Unity of Knowledge	1998	0786216077	Thorndike Press
	Industrial Agriculture
Eric Schlosser	Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal	2002	0060938455	Perennial
Steven Stoll	The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California	1998	520211723	University of California Press
Kimbrell (editor)	Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture	2002	1559639415	Foundation for Deep Ecology
Richard C. Fluck	Agricultural Energetics	1996	0870553461	A V I Publishing Company
	Water                                                                                                   groups.yahoo.com/group/waterforum/
Robert Glennon	Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping & the Fate of America's Fresh Waters	2004	1559634006	Island Press
Jeffrey F. Mount	California Rivers & Streams. The Conflict between Fluvial Process & Land Use	1995	0520202503	University of California Press
Sandra Postel	Pillar of Sand, Can the Irrigation Miracle Last?	1999	0393319377	W. W. Norton
	Natural History
Carl Safina	Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival	2003	0805062297	Owl Books
Barry Lopez	Of Wolves and Men	1979	0684163225	Scribner
Holldobler & Wilson	Journey to the Ants	1995	0674485262	Belknap Press
	Rolling Back the Clock                                                              Who knows how far back civilization will go?
Steven Vogel	Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle	2003	039332463X	W. W. Norton
Joanna  Stratton	Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier	1981	0671226118	Simon & Schuster
Richard White	It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own.  A New History of the American West.	1993	0806125675	University of Oklahoma Press
Stephen Ambrose	Undaunted Courage.  Merriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West	1997	0684826976	Simon & Schuster
Robert Massie	Peter the Great: His Life and World	1996	0345336194	Ballantine
Barbara Tuchman	Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century	1979	0345349571	Ballantine
Jean Gimpel	Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages	1977	0140045147	Penguin Books
George Huppert	After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe	1998	0253211808	Indiana University Press
	How Rich Nations Steal From Poor Nations
Susan George	Faith and Credit: The World Bank's Secular Empire	1994	0813326087	Perseus Books
	Fire
Stephen J. Pyne	Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire	1997	029597592X	University of Washington Press
Stephen J. Pyne	Burning Bush, A Fire History of Australia	1991	0805014721	Henry Holt & Co
Murry Taylor	Jumping Fire.  A Smoke Jumper's memoir of fighting wildfire	2001	0156013975	Harvest Books
	Inventing a New Society                                                                           What worked, what failed, and why?
Mark Holloway	Utopian Communities in America, 1680-1880	1966	0486215938	Dover Publications
Robert Hine	California's Utopian Colonies	1983	0520048857	University of California Press
Donald E. Pitzer	America's Communal Utopias	1997	0807846090	University of North Carolina Press
Helena Norberg-Hodge	Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
	Sustainability
B. C. Mollison	Permaculture: A Designers' Manual	1997	0908228015	Tagari Publications
Ted Trainer	The Alternative, Sustainable Society; the Simpler Way  http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/12b-The-Alt-Sust-Soc-Lng.html
Howard T. Odum	The Prosperous Way Down: Principles and Policies	2001	0870816101	University Press of Colorado
	Trashing the Planet
Theo Colborn	Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story	1996	0525939822	Penguin Books
Thomas Hayden	Trashing the Oceans   http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Trashing-Oceans-Plastic4nov02.htm
W.Rathje & C.Murphy	Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage. What our garbage tells us about ourselves	2001	0816521433	University of Arizona Press
WorldWatch Institute	State of the World 2004
	Higher Education in America
Murray Sperber	Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education	2001	0805068112	Owl Books
	Fun                                                                                                                   To counteract depression from above
Douglas Adams	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series	1995	0345391802	Ballantine
Cyra McFadden	The Serial: A year in the life of Marin County	1997	0394733614	Random House
Tony Horwitz	Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War	1998	0679439781	Pantheon Books
Barbara Kipfer	14,000 Things to Be Happy about	1990	0894803700	Workman Publishing
Lawrence Weschler	Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, & Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology	1996	0679764895	Vintage Books
	Armchair Travel
Bruce Chatwin	The Songlines	1998	0140094296	Penguin Books
Thurston Clarke	Equator: A Journey Around the World	1988	0688069010	Harper Collins
Fred Hatfield	North of the Sun: A Memoir of the Alaskan Wilderness	1990	1559720433	Carol Publishing
Joe Kane	Savages	1996	0679740198	Vintage Books
John Muir	The Wild Muir: Twenty-two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures	1994	0939666758	Yosemite Association
H. Norberg-Hodge	Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh	1992	0871566435	Sierra Club Books
Delia & Mark Owens	Cry of the Kalahari, Seven Years in Africa's Last Great Wilderness	1992	0395647800	Mariner Books
	You'll be glad you stayed home:
Redmond O'Hanlon	No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo	1998	0679737324	Vintage Books
Robert D. Kaplan	The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy	1997	0679751238	Vintage Books
	Interesting
Anthony Bourdain	Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly	2001	0553528521	Random House
Ted Conover	Rolling Nowhere: Riding the rails with America's Hoboes	2001	0375727868	Vintage Books
T.M. Hawley	Against the Fires of Hell: The Environmental Disaster of the Gulf War	1997	5553408881	World Publications
Jim Hogshire	You Are Going to Prison (more than you want to know. The perfect gift for anyone going to jail)	1994	1893626229	Breakout Productions
Robert Hughes	The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding	1988	0394753666	Vintage Books
Virginia Jenkins	The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession	1994	1560984066	Smithsonian Books
David Kimbrough	Taking Up Serpents: Snake Handlers of Eastern Kentucky	1995	0807822272	University of North Carolina Press
Dorinne Kondo	Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace	1990	0226450449	University of Chicago Press
James Kunstler	Geography of Nowhere: The Rise And Declineof America'S Man-Made Landscape	1994	0671888250	Free Press
A.R.Luria  L.Solotaroff	The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book About a Vast Memory	1968	0465046150	Perseus Book Group
John McPhee	Basin and Range, Coming Into the Country, The Control of Nature, etc.
R.P.Multhauf	Neptune's Gift:  A History of Common Salt	1978	0801819555	Johns Hopkins University Press
Michael Pollan	The Botany of Desire: A Plants-eye View of the World	2002	0375760393	Random House
Luigi Serafini	Codex seraphinianus	1985	0517475146	Random House
Rebecca Solnit	Wanderlust: A History of Walking	2001	0140286012	Dimensions
Jennifer Toth	Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City	1993	1556521901	Chicago Review Press
Tom Wolfe	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Painted Word, The Right Stuff, etc.
	Fiction
Isaac Asimov	The Foundation series
David Duncan	The River Why
William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury
Ursula Le Guin	Left Hand of Darkness
Norman Maclean	A River Runs Through It
Gabriel Garcia Marquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude
Toni Morrison	The Bluest Eye
Thomas Pynchon	Gravity's Rainbow
Tom Robbins	Jitterbug Perfume, Another Roadside Attraction
Kim S. Robinson	Red, Green, and Blue Mars
Shakespeare	Hamlet, etc.
Wallace Stegner	Angle of Repose
Amy Tan	The Joy Luck Club
J.R.R.Tolkien	The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Leo Tolstoy	War And Peace
Mark Twain	Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, etc.,
Kurt Vonnegut	Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse Five, etc.
Tom Wolfe	Bonfire of the Vanities
	Poetry   The best poems are the ones read aloud at local cafes where you have a chance to visit the innermost worlds of the people who wrote them.  Otherwise randomly pull books down from the poetry section to find poets you might like.
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