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Obviously the site covers a large array of topics and if this section were comprehensive in its implementation would overwhelm the site in its own right. So the intent here is NOT to provide a comprehensive set of reading references but to provide a key set. Those thought to provide a good foundation for various aspects as they relate to the H2Orbit mission. Some links/references may be to specific items and others may be to search engines on topical subjects.
We have tried to focus the Bibliography on hard copy references that are available through independent sources. Reference material that is available electronically via the Internet, for the most part, will be listed on the Links page. One critical example of this is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2001 Assessment Report.
Many book sellers, like Amazon, offer end-user, comment areas for any given book. We encourage H2Orbit users to provide their thoughts about a text on those systems, rather than here. Consequently we are not at the moment intending to install a blog or forum to discuss texts, as it already exists on those other systems.
We have posted lists of materials available on Amazon:
- H2Orbit Library Suggestions L1 - Sustainability
- H2Orbit Library Suggestions L2 - Understanding Earth
- H2Orbit Library Suggestions L3 - Vision Quest
- H2Orbit Library Suggestions L4 - On The Shoulders of Giants
- H2Orbit Library Suggestions L5 - Terran Aerospace
| Book | Author | ISBN | Brief Description |
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 Aviation and the Global Atmosphere | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | Click the image to review the report | This Special Report was prepared following a request from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. The state of understanding of the relevant science of the atmosphere, aviation technology, and socio-economic issues associated with mitigation options is assessed and reported for both subsonic and supersonic fleets. The potential effects that aviation has had in the past and may have in the future on both stratospheric ozone depletion and global climate change are covered; environmental impacts of aviation at the local scale, however, are not addressed. The report synthesizes the findings to identify and characterize options for mitigating future impacts. |
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| A Vision of Future Space Transportation | Tim McElyea, David Brin | 1896522939 | Next steps in transportation |
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| Better Environmental Decisions | Various | Various | Better Environmental Decisions reponds to the need for improved environmental decision making by bringing together leading scholars and practitioners to provide a comprehensive interdisciplinary introduction to the subject. |
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| Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World with CD-ROM (Hardcover) | John D Sterman | 007238915X | Sterman’s objective is to explain, in a true textbook format, what system dynamics is, and how it can be successfully applied to solve business and organizational problems. System dynamics is both a currently utilized approach to organizational problem solving at the professional level, and a field of study in business, engineering, and social and physical sciences. |
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| Cartoon Guide to the Environment | Larry Gonick, Alice Outwater | 0062732749 | Using the ecological collapse of Easter Island as an example of a failing environment, the authors present the historical, scientific, and ethical backgrounds to the environmental challenges faced currently, and in the near future, by all humanity. Nothing less than the fate of life on Earth lies in the balance, which makes for an engrossing plot, made more poignant by the scientific research and data that back it up. |
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| Colonies In Space | T.A. Heppenheimer | 0446955590 | Unlike Mars, Colonization of space around L4 and L5 of the moon is an achievable goal, which could have been achieved in our life time had it not been for the short sightedness of the US Government back during the seventies. Had it not been for that, our children would be living among the stars today. |
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| Competitive Strategy | Michael E. Porter | 0684841487 | The essence of formulating competitive strategy is relating a company to its environment. |
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| Creative Destruction: Why companies that are built to last underperform the market | Richard Foster, Sarah Kaplan | 0385501331 | Business' designed to endure tend to institutionalize their thinking which will ultimately lead to their demise. Argues management should embrace discontinuity of today's fast paced markets, by leveraging creative destruction. |
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| Cosmos (book) Cosmos (DVD) | Carl Sagan | 286374075X | "THE COSMOS IS ALL THAT IS OR EVER WAS OR EVER WILL BE..." Cosmos was the first science TV blockbuster. |
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 Emissions Scenarios | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | Click the image to review the report | In 1992 the IPCC released emission scenarios to be used for driving global circulation models to develop climate change scenarios. The so-called IS92 scenarios were pathbreaking. They were the first global scenarios to provide estimates for the full suite of greenhouse gases. Much has changed since then in our understanding of possible future greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Therefore the IPCC decided in 1996 to develop a new set of emissions scenarios which will provide input to the IPCC third assessment report but can be of broader use than the IS92 scenarios. The new scenarios provide also input for evaluating climatic and environmental consequences of future greenhouse gas emissions and for assessing alternative mitigation and adaptation strategies. They include improved emission baselines and latest information on economic restructuring throughout the world, examine different rates and trends in technological change and expand the range of different economic-development pathways, including narrowing of the income gap between developed and developing countries. To achieve this a new approach was adopted to take into account a wide range of scientific perspectives, and interactions between regions and sectors. Through the so-called "open process" input and feedback from a community of experts much broader than the writing team were solicited. The results of this work show that different social, economic and technological developments have a strong impact on emission trends, without assuming explicit climate policy interventions. The new scenarios provide also important insights about the interlinkages between environmental quality and development choices and will certainly be a useful tool for experts and decision makers. |
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| Entering Space | Robert Zubrin | 1585420360 | About the promise of humanity becoming a space faring species. |
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| Global Warming: The Complete Briefing | John Houghton | 0521528747 | John Houghton explores the scientific basis of global warming and the likely impacts of climate change on human society in this comprehensive guide to the subject. He then addresses the action that could be taken by governments, industry and individuals to mitigate the effects of global warming. |
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| Globalization and Its Discontents | Joseph E. Stiglitz | 0393051242 | This book clearly explains the functions and powers of the main institutions that govern globalization--the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization--along with the ramifications, both good and bad, of their policies. |
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| Handbook of Human Performance Technology | Harold D. Stolovitch, Erica J. Keeps | 0787911089 | HPT is a field of practice that has evolved largely as a result of knowledge management in the workplace. |
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| High Flyers: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders | Morgan W. McCall Jr. | 0875843360 | High Flyers is for everyone in the organization who has responsibility for developing people.... |
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| How to win friends and influence people | Dale Carnegie | Various | This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. |
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| Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs and Other Marine Calcifiers | NSF NOAA USGS | Contribution 2897 NOAA Marine Environmental Library | Published in 2006 this is a great piece of work by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the United States Geologic Survey (USGS). This report scientifically couples ocean acidification to atmospheric CO2 and provides a foundation for future research. |
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| In Defense of Globalization | Jagdish Bhagwati | 0195170253 | one of the world's preeminent economists distills his thinking about globalization for the lay reader. Bhagwati, a former adviser to the U.N. on globalization, sets out to show that "this process has a human face, but we need to make that face more agreeable." |
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| Interplanetary Internet (IPN): Architectural Definition | V. Cerf, S. Burleigh, A. Hooke, L. Torgerson, R. Durst, K. Scott, E. Travis, H. Weiss | InterPlaNet | This document describes the Interplanetary Internet: a communication system to provide Internet-like services across interplanetary distances in support of deep space exploration. Our approach, which we refer to as bundling, builds a store-and-forward overlay network above the transport layers of underlying networks. Bundling uses many of the techniques of electronic mail, but is directed toward interprocess communication, and is designed to operate in environments that have very long speed-of-light delays. We partition the Interplanetary Internet into IPN Regions, and discuss the implications that this has on naming and routing. We discuss the way that bundling establishes dialogs across intermittently connected internets, and go on to discuss the types of bundle nodes that exist in the interplanetary internet, followed by a discussion of security in the IPN, a discussion of the IPN backbone network, and a discussion of remote deployed internets. |
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| Islands in the Sky | Stanley Schmidt | 0471135615 | Explores the fringes between science fact and science fiction. Where are we and what can we actually do. |
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| Kaizen: the Key to Japan's Competitive Success | Masaaki Imai | 007554332X | For the professional manager or student of management, a comprehensive handbook of 16 Kaizen management practices that can be put to work. KAIZEN uses more than 100 examples in action and contains 15 corporate case studies. |
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 Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | Click the image to review the report | The Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry was prepared in response to a request from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA). At its Eighth Session in Bonn from 2-12 June 1998, SBSTA requested a report examining the scientific and technical state of understanding for carbon sequestration strategies related to land use, land-use change, and forestry activities and relevant Articles of the Kyoto Protocol. The scope, structure, and outline of the Special Report was approved by the IPCC in plenary meetings during its Fourteenth Session in Vienna, Austria, from 1-3 October 1998. |
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| Leading at the Edge of Chaos: How to Create the Nimble Organization | Daryl R. Conner | 0471295574 Paperback version | Globalization, rapid-fire technological innovation, and mounting pressure for shareholder value have pushed the markets into a state of ceaseless turmoil. What was cutting-edge change management theory just five years ago now seems naive. Success amidst such a maelstrom of change calls for much more than what change management models have to offer. It calls for a radically new kind of organization, nimble enough to adapt instantly to changing market conditions, and piloted by leaders versed in the art of Leading at the Edge of Chaos. |
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| Marketing Management | Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Keller | 0131457578 | Classic marketing theory. |
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 Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | Click the image to review the report | This Special Report has been prepared by IPCC Working Group III in response to a request by the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) to the UNFCC. Innovation and enhanced efforts to transfer environmentally sound tech-nology to limit greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to climate change will be required to meet the objective of the Climate Convention and to reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts. The report addresses the technology transfer problem in the con-text of climate change while emphasizing the sustainable devel-opment perspective. Technology transfer is defined as the broad set of processes covering the flows of know-how, experience and equipment and is the result of many day-to-day decisions of the different stakeholders involved. A number of social, economic, political, legal, and technological factors influence the flow and quality of technology transfer. Essential elements of successful transfers include consumer and business awareness, access to information, availability of a wide range of technical, business, management and regulatory skills locally, and sound economic policy and regulatory frameworks. Technology transfers that meet local needs and priorities are more likely to be successful. But there is no pre-set answer to enhancing technology transfer. Interactions and barriers vary according to sector, type of tech-nology and country, and recent trends in international financial flows that drive technology transfer are altering the relative capacities and roles of different stakeholders. Policy actions therefore need to be tailored to the specific context and interests. The report elaborates on what governments can do to facilitate and enhance the transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies, but it also aims at reaching decision makers in the private sector, lending institutions, multilateral agencies, non-governmental organizations, and the interested public. |
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| National Innovation Systems | Richard R. Nelson | 0195076176 | The slowdown of growth in Western industrialized nations in the last twenty years has led to what the authors believe to be a "techno-nationalism." This book is about these national systems of technical innovation. The heart of the work contains studies of seventeen countries--from large market-oriented industrialized ones to several smaller high income ones, including a number of newly industrialized states as well. Clearly written, this work highlights institutions and mechanisms which support technical innovation, showing similarities, differences, and their sources across nations, making this work accessible to students as well as the scholars of innovation. |
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| NOAA Diving Manual: Diving for Science and Technology, Fouth Edition | James T. Joiner | 0941332705 | One of the most detailed diving reference books available and is a valuable resource for all who are interested in a complete encyclopedia of diving technology, equipment, techniques, and procedures. |
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| One Pilgrim's Wish for Earth FREE Electronic Copy HERE NOTE: This FREE copy is password protected not for security purposes but to reinforce in the reader that their choices count. The password is: MyLifeSpaceMatters Click here to purchase the paperback book version of the book, ISBN978-0977229208 The book is also available on Amazon.com both in paperback as well as electronic Kindle formats. Why sell something you give away for free? Not everyone uses the Internet and because it provides a means where people, who care, can deliver the vision to their elected officials along with their own written words. It also provides a means of archiving the idea for future generations. While the Internet might last forever - it evolves and so does its content. This is a way to preserve the concepts for posterity. The intent is to share the vision in a way to drive a grass roots awareness of what needs to be done to solve the problems. | Charles C. McGowen | Kindle: 0977229203 Paperback: 9780977229208 | This book envisions what a speech would look like implementing the H2Orbit strategy as given by the President of the United States. The level of attention required and leadership demonstrated. Think changing a few light bulbs will save the planet? The problem's scope is much broader and deeper than those meager efforts would accomplish. Those 'meager efforts' are necessary but insufficient. This situation is the single most massive and serious situation ever to face human kind indeed all life on Earth. Solving it will take every bit of 90 years and involve every facet of life on our planet. Ignoring the problem means certain destruction; suicide in god's eye. We must act quickly in the face of an ever narrowing window of opportunity to succeed. This is the text of my proposal made to the President of the United States PRIOR to his delivering the 2007 "State of the Union" address. While I didn't believe for a second it would get much traction, it broached the topic. Find out more about what all this means and what you can do to help. |
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 The Regional Impacts of Climate Change - An Assessment of Vulernability | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | Click the image to review the report | This Special Report, which has been produced by Working Group II of the IPCC, builds on the Working Group's contribution to the Second Assessment Report (SAR), and incorporates more recent information made available since mid-1995. It has been prepared in response to a request from the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It addresses an important question posed by the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC, namely, the degree to which human conditions and the natural environment are vulnerable to the potential effects of climate change. The report establishes a common base of information regarding the potential costs and benefits of climatic change, including the evaluation of uncertainties, to help the COP determine what adaptation and mitigation measures might be justified. The report consists of vulnerability assessments for 10 regions that comprise the Earth's entire land surface and adjoining coastal seas: Africa, Arid Western Asia (including the Middle East), Australasia, Europe, Latin America, North America, the Polar Regions (The Arctic and the Antarctic), Small Island States, Temperate Asia, and Tropical Asia. It also includes several annexes that provide information about climate observations, climate projections, vegetation distribution projections, and socioeconomic trends. |
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| Security Analysis | Benjamin Graham, David Dodd | 0070244960 | This 1934 text is a classic that secured Mr Graham's status as a Wall Street immortal. The carefully honed methods for finding undervalued stocks and bonds have never been equaled. The result is an ability to assess the value of business' with clairity and depth. |
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| Silent Spring | Rachel Carson | 061825305X | Silent Spring, released in 1962, offered the first shattering look at widespread ecological degradation and touched off an environmental awareness that still exists. Rachel Carson's book focused on the poisons from insecticides, weed killers, and other common products as well as the use of sprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals to the food source. Carson argued that those chemicals were more dangerous than radiation and that for the first time in history, humans were exposed to chemicals that stayed in their systems from birth to death. |
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| Society of Mind | Marvin Minsky | 0671657135 | For some artificial intelligence researchers, Minsky's book is too far removed from hard science to be useful. For others, the high-level approach of The Society of Mind makes it a gold mine of ideas waiting to be implemented. The author, one of the undisputed fathers of the discipline of AI, sets out to provide an abstract model of how the human mind really works. |
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| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change | Stephen R. Covey | 0743272455 | Before you can adopt the seven habits, you'll need to accomplish what Covey calls a "paradigm shift"--a change in perception and interpretation of how the world works. Covey takes you through this change, which affects how you perceive and act regarding productivity, time management, positive thinking, developing your "proactive muscles" (acting with initiative rather than reacting), and much more. |
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| The Ascent of Man (Book) The Ascent of Man (Student Guide) | Jacob Bronowski | 0316109304 | One of my all time favorite books from college that is definitely a keeper and still relevent after all these years. If you read each chapter and view the corresponding video text it produces a truly amazing insight into the development of mankinds' knowledge. (not sure where to get a copy of the videos...) |
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| The High Frontier | Gerard K. O'Neil | 189652267X | Colonization of Space |
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| The Hydrogen Economy | Jeremy Rifkin | 1585421936 | Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends explains that the next great economic era will be powered by hydrogen. His basic premise is that the world must switch from a fossil-fuel economy to a hydrogen economy. This must happen soon for three reasons: the imminent peak of global oil production, the increased concentration of remaining oil reserves in the Middle East one of the most politically and socially unstable regions of the world and the steady heating up of the world's atmosphere from fossil-fuel dependency. |
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| The Art of War | Sun Tzu | Various | With well over a million copies sold, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a true masterpiece, a series of brilliant aphorisms that illuminate the planning and conduct of war. From perceptive descriptions of the nine varieties of terrain, to advice on how to gage an enemy's weaknesses and strengths, to suggestions on the employment of secret agents, here is timeless advice on combat and military strategy. Sun Tzu's writings are unsurpassed in depth of understanding, shedding light not only on battlefield maneuvers, but also on the relevant economic, political, and psychological factors that can shape the outcome of warfare. Equally important, the precepts outlined by Sun Tzu over two thousand years ago can be applied with great success outside the theater of war. Indeed, it is read avidly by corporate executives worldwide and has been touted in the movie Wall Street and the television series The Sopranos as the ultimate guide to strategy. Remarkable for its clear organization, lucid prose, and the acuity of its intellectual and moral insights, The Art of War is the definitive study of combat. It is an essential book for military history buffs, and ideal for anyone who is interested in tactics and strategy, whether on the battlefield or in the boardroom. |
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| The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action | Jeffrey Phfeffer, Robert I. Sutton | 1578511240 | Every year, companies spend billions of dollars on training programs and management consultants, searching for ways to improve. But it's mostly all talk and no action....... |
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| The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits | Adrian Slywotzky | 0812929004 | The Profit Zone looks at how profit happens in today's customer-driven economy. |
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| The Six Sigma Way | Peter S. Pande et al, Robert P. Newman, Roland R. Cavanagh | 0071358064 | Six-sigma is a data-driven management system with near-perfect-performance objectives that has been employed to aclaim at leading corporations around the world. |
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| The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith, Edwin Cannan | 0679424733 | This book was published shortly after Smith's death in 1790 and was influential since it did so much to create the field of economics and develop it into an autonomous systematic discipline. |
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| To the Summit: Fifty Mountains that Lure, Inspire and Challenge | Joseph Poindexter | 1579120415 | Eiger, Kilimanjaro, Denali, Everest: historic mountains steeped in climbing legend, not only for mountaineers, but for anyone attuned to the siren song of adventure. Here, in a coffee-table-ready collection of gorgeous photos, inspiring text, and factual data, author-climber Joseph Poindexter describes these legendary mountains and 46 more of the world's most magnificent climbs, "fifty places around the world, most of them cold, barren, starved of oxygen, subject to violent fits of weather--and beautiful--where human ambition collides with the glacial indifference of dangerous terrain." |
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| Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition | Adrian J. Slywotzky | 0875846327 | Value migration is the flow of economic and shareholder value away from an increasingly outmoded business design toward others that are better equipped to create utility for customers and profit for the company. |
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| Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies | Robert E. Gunther, George S. Day, Paul J. H. Schoemaker | 0471361216 | Emerging technologies like the Internet, gene therapy, electronic commerce, intelligent sensors, digital imaging, micromachines, superconductivity, and others have the potential to remake entire industries and obsolete established strategies. |
