Our Bookshelf

A list of some of our favorite books on a variety of topics. 

Ecological and Environmental

Desert Solitaire / Edward Abbey

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture / Wendell Berry

Collapse / Jared Diamond

Earth in the Balance / Al Gore

Natural Capitalism / Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins

The Omnivore's Dilemma / Michael Pollan

Cadillac Desert / Marc Reisner

Energy at the Crossroads / Vaclav Smil

Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact / Vaclav Smil

International

What is the What / Dave Eggers

Mountains Beyond Mountains / Tracy Kidder

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace, One School At a Time / Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

Technical

Mechanical Design

Mark's Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers / Eugene A. Avallone, Theodore Baumeister III

Mechanical Design of Machine Elements and Machines: A Failure Prevention Perspective / Jack Collins

Machinery's Handbook / Industrial Press

Product Design and Development / Karl T. Ulrich

Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain / Warren C. Young, Richard G. Budynas

Software/Controls/Electronics

Digital Signal Processing and the Microcontroller / Grover and Deller

The C Programming Language / Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

Linkers and Loaders / John Levine

Modern Control Engineering / Katsuhiko Ogata

Dive Into Python / Mark Pilgrim

Electronic Circuits and Applications / Stephen D. Senturia, Bruce D. Wedlock

Analog Electronics with Op Amps / Anthony Peyton, Vincent Walsh

Solar

Photovoltaic Solar Energy Generation / Adolf Goetzberger, Volker U. Hoffmann

Third Generation Photovoltaics: Advanced Solar Energy Conversion (Springer Series in Photonics) / Martin A. Green

Handbook of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering / Antonio Luque, Steven Hegedus

Practical Handbook of Photovoltaics / Tom Markvart, Luis Castaner

Thin Film Solar Cells / Jef Poortmans, Vladimir Arkhipov

Applied Photovoltaics / Stuart R. Wenham, Martin A. Green, Muriel E. Watt, and Richard Corkish

Other Renewable Energy

Wind Turbines: Fundamentals, Technologies, Application, Economics / Erich Hau

Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems / Gilbert Masters

Biofuels Refining and Performance / Ahindra Nag

Other Technical

Electricity and Magnetism / Edward M. Purcell

Bicycling Science / David Gordon Wilson