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
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