Bibliography for Entropy and Human Activity

On-Line Resources

Other Bibliographies   Text and Reference   Lecture Notes

Study Guides   Other On-Line Resources

Other Bibliographies

• Citations from Prior Term Papers

  The hardcopy and on-line references cited by prior students in the course constitute a valuable starting point for your own research.

• Readings for Class Presentation

  Your formal presentation will be on a topic chosen from among these articles.

• Readings from Scientific American

  This annotated bibliography is divided into a dozen sections by general topic, including several that are particularly relevant to this course. A thirteenth section lists articles on a wide range of topics "of general cultural interest, worth walking over to the library to read." This further supports the general education aims of Tier III.

Text and Reference

• Darrell O. Huwe and Richard D. Piccard, 1997, Notes on Entropy and Human Activity. This 20-page manuscript constitutes the notes for many of the lectures, and is published on-line at

  http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~piccard/huwe/

• Richard D. Piccard, 1998, Notes on Modern Physics and Ionizing Radiation. This 100+-page manuscript constitutes the notes for the lectures on radioactivity, and is published on-line at

  http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~piccard/radnotes/

  (This book does include a considerable amount of mathematical and more technical material that will not be assigned.)

Lecture Notes

• A Time-Line of Historical Persons and Events is available on-line.

  
  

• A book review of Hardin's Living Within Limits is available on-line.

  
  

• Some remarks that are related to the history presentations are available on-line.

  
  

• My book review of Perrow's Normal Accidents is available on-line.

  The Chronicle of Higher Education also published a review of Perrow's Normal Accidents in the issue of October 15, 1999 (Volume 46, Issue 8).

  
  

• A commentary on Daly's Steady-State Economics is available on-line.

  
  

• An essay on the Carnot-cycle heat engines and the corresponding refrigerators and heat pumps is available on-line.

  That essay was originally written for a physics course and includes algebra that is NOT presumed to be part of this course.

  
  

• A commentary on Rawls' A Theory of Justice is available on-line.

  The Chronicle of Higher Education has published an article, "The Enduring Significance of John Rawls", by Martha Nussbaum.

• John Rawls died at age 81 on November 24, 2002.

Study Guides

• The preliminary version of the study guide for the first midterm is now available on-line.

• The preliminary version of the study guide for the second midterm is now available on-line.

• The preliminary version of the study guide for the final exam is now available on-line.

Other On-Line Resources

• Alean, Jürg, and Hambrey, Michael, 2005, Glaciers online.

• EcoSystems, 2001, The Hubbert Peak of Oil Production

• U. S. EPA, 2001, Global Warming: Impacts - Coastal Zones

• U. S. EPA, 1999, Greenhouse Effect and Sea Level Rise

• Monastersky, Richard, 2000, The Storm at the Center of Climate Science: How did a quiet researcher on global warming upset so many people? The Chronicle of Higher Education issue dated November 10, 2000.

• NASA, Earth-at-night photo montage, http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0208/earthlights02_dmsp_big.jpg

• Oregon State University Department of Geosciences Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database

• Science Magazine Editorial: "The Science of Climate Change." Science 292, page 1261. [The on-line version is not free.]

• Stott, Peter A., Tett, S. F. B. , Jones, G. S., Allen, M. R., Mitchell, J. F. B., and Jenkins, G. J., 2000, External Control of 20th Century Temperature by Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings." Science 290, pages 2133-2137. [The on-line version is not free.]

• Titus, James G., and Richman, Charlie, "Maps of Lands Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise; see the link at the start of the third paragraph directly to the "Sea Level Rise Maps."

• University of Wyoming Religious Studies Program Exploring Religions

• Zwiers, Francis W., and Weaver, Andrew J., 2000, "The Causes of 20th Century Warming." Science 290, pages 2081-2083. [The on-line version is not free.]

Books

• Ashworth, William A., 2006, Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains. W. W. Norton and Company, New York.

• Bent, Henry A., 1965, The Second Law: An Introduction to Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics. Oxford University Press, New York.

• Boulding, Kenneth E., editor, 1984, The Economics of Human Betterment. State University of New York Press, Albany.

• Brown, Andrew, 1997, The Neutron and the Bomb: A Biography of Sir James Chadwick. Oxford University Press, New York.

• Brown, Lester R., Flavin, Christopher, and Kane, Hal, 1996, Vital Signs 1996: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future. W. W. Norton & Company, New York; Worldwatch Institute.

• Caldwell, Lynton Keith, 1970, Environment: A challenge for modern society. The Natural History Press, Garden City, NY.

• Cohen, Bernard L., 1990, The Nuclear Energy Option: An Alternative for the 90s. Plenum Press, New York.

• Daly, Herman E., 1991, Steady-State Economics: Second Edition with New Essays. Island Press, Washington, DC.

• Deffeyes, Kenneth S., 2001, Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage. Princeton University Press, Princeton. This book was reviewed in the October, 2001, issue of Scientific American, by Paul Raeburn.

• Deffeyes, Kenneth S., 2005, Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York.

• Denbigh, Kenneth G., 1981, Three Concept of Time. Springer-Verlag, New York.

• Diamond, Jared, 1992, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. HarperPerennial, New York.

• Diamond, Jared, 1999, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W. W. Norton & Company, New York.

• Diamond, Jared, 2005, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail to Succeed. Viking, New York.

• Didsbury, Howard F., Jr., editor, 1985, The Global Economy: Today, Tomorrow, and the Transition. World Future Society, Bethesda, MD.

• Ehrman, Bart D., 2005, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. HarperCollins, New York.

• Fowler, John M., 1975, Energy and the Environment. Mcgraw-Hill, New York.

• Frank, Richard B., 1999, Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. Random House, New York.

• Friedman, Benjamin M., 2005, The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.

• Gelbspan, Ross, 2004, Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled the Climate Crisis -- and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster. Basic Books, New York.

• Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas, 1971, The Entropy Law and the Economic Process. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

• Goodman, Steven M., and Patterson, Bruce D., editors, 1997, Natural Change and Human Impact in Madagascar. Smithsonian Institution Press. Reviewed by Ian Tattersall, American Scientist 86 (1) January-February, 1998, pages 78-79.

• Goodstein, David, 2004, Out of Gar: The End of the Age of Oil. W. W. Norton & Company, New York.

• Gould, Stephen Jay, 2003, The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities. Harmony Books, New York.

• Guillen, Michael, 1995, Five Equations that Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics. Hyperion, New York. Especially the fifth chapter: "An Unprofitable Experience: Rudolf Clausius and the Second Law of Thermodynamics," pages 165-214.

• Hardin, Garrett, 1993, Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos. Oxford University Press, New York.

• Helferich, Gerard, 2004, Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the Word. Gotham Books, New York.

• Howes, Ruth, and Fainberg, Anthony, editors, 1991, The Energy Sourcebook: A Guide to Technology, Resources, and Policy. American Institute of Physics, New York.

• Kauffman, Stuart A., 1993, The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution. Oxford University Press, New York.

• Klare, Michael T., 2001, Resource Wars: the New Landscape of Global Conflict. Metropolitan/Owl Books Henry Holt and Company, New York.

• Klare, Michael T., 2004, Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum. Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Company, New York.

• Kunstler, James Howard, 2005, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century. Grove Press, New York.

• Linden, Eugene, 2006, The Winds of Change: Climate, weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations. Simon and Schuster, New York.

• Mann, Charles C., 2005, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Knopf, New York.

• Margolis, Howard, 2002, It Started with Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution. McGraw-Hill, New York.

• Miernyk, William H., 1982, The Illusions of Conventional Economics. West Virginia University Press, Morgantown.

• Mithen, Steven, 2003, After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000 - 5,000 BC. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

• Morris, Richard, 1985, Time's Arrows: Scientific Attitudes Toward Time. Simon and Schuster, New York.

• Pinker, Steven, 2002, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Penguin Books, New York.

• Postel, Sandra, 1992, Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity. W. W. Norton & Company, New York. (The Worldwatch Environmental Series). This book was in the collection of the Athens Public Library in August, 1997.

• Preston, Diana, 2005, Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima. Walker and Company, New York.

• Rawls, John, 1971, A Theory of Justice. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

• Reich, Robert B., editor, 1988, The Power of Public Ideas. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

• Reiss, Bob, 2001, The Coming Storm: Extreme Weather and our Terrifying Future. Hyperion, NY.

• Rhodes, Richard, 1986, The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Simon & Schuster, New York.

• Rhodes, Richard, 1995, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. Simon & Schuster, New York.

• Rife, Patricia, 1999, Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age. Birkhäuser, Boston.

• Rifkin, Jeremy, with Howard, Ted, 1989, Entropy: Into the Greenhouse World, Revised Edition. Bantam Books, New York.

• Roberts, Paul, 2005, The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World. Mariner Books, Houghten Mifflin, New York.

• Rothfeder, Jeffrey, 2001, Every Drop for Sale: Our Deperate Battle over Water in a World About to Run Out. Tarcher/Putnam, New York.

• Ruddiman, William F., 2005, Plows, Plagues & Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

• Sigma Xi, 1992, Global Change and the Human Prospect: Issues in Population, Science, Technology and Equity - Forum Proceedings November 16-18, 1991. Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Research Triangle Park, NC.

• Simpson, John Warfield, 2005, DAM! Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park. Pantheon Books, New York.

• Solé, Ricard, and Goodwin, Brian, 2000, Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology. Basic Books, New York.

• Stark, Rodney, 2005, The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. Random House, New York.

• Uhl, Christopher, 2003, Developing ecological consciousness: paths to a sustainable world. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD.

• von Hippel, Frank, 1991, Citizen Scientist. American Institute of Physics, New York.

• Walker, J. Samuel, 2004, Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.

• Weatherford, Jack, 2004, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Crown Publishers, New York.

Articles

• Clifford, Frank, 1997, "As smog levels rise, so does illness, study of 10,000 finds." The Columbus Dispatch November 30, 1997, page 6B.

• Easterling, David R.; Horton, Briony; Jones, Philip D.; Peterson, Thomas C.; Karl, Thomas R.; Parker, David E.; Salinger, M. James; Razuvayev, Vyacheslav; Plummer, Neil; Jamason, Paul; and Folland, Christopher K, 1997, "Maximum and Minimum Temperature Trends for the Globe." Science, 277 (18 July 1997) pages 364-367. Global warming is increasing the overnight lows more than the daytime highs.

• Edwards, Randall, 1997, "Lake Erie probably will change, but no one's sure just how." The Columbus Dispatch November 30, 1997, page 5B.

• Hansen, James, et. al., 2005, "Earth's Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications." Sciencexpress. April 28, 2005; corrected May 2, 2005.

• Hardin, Garret, 1968, "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science 162, pages 1243-1248.

• Hollister, Charles D., and Nadis, Steven, 1998, "Burial of Radioactive Waste under the Seabed." Scientific American, 278 (1), January, 1998, pages 60-65. Although the notion troubles some environmentalists, the disposing of nuclear refuse within oceanic sediments merits consideration.

• Lore, David, 1997, "As planet heats up, many may demand water from Great Lakes." The Columbus Dispatch November 30, 1997, pages 4B and 5B.

• Lore, David, 1997, "Radon 'unlikely' as leukemia cause." The Columbus Dispatch October 17, 1997, page 5D. This is one of several articles about the high leukemia incidence in the Merion, Ohio, region. It includes a county-by-county map of the state, color-coded according to radon levels.

• Lore, David, 2000, "Global warming might ease, expert says." The Columbus Dispatch April 1, 2000, page 3B.

• de la Mare, William K., 1997, Nature issue of September 4, 1997, as cited by a Los Angeles Times article re-published in The Columbus Dispatch reporting research on Antarctic polar icecap melting studied using information from old whaling ship logs.

• Nichol, Stephen, and Allison, Ian, 1997, "The Frozen Skin of the Southern Ocean." American Scientist 85 (5) September-October, 1997, pages 426-439. The physics and biology of the Antarctic sea-ice zone reveal a complex, interactive system that may have profound global effects.

• Pitelka, Louis F., and the Plant Migration Workshop Group, 1997, "Plant Migration and Climate Change." American Scientist 85 (5) September-October, 1997, pages 464-473. A more realistic portrait of plant migration is essential to predicting biological responses to global warming in a world drastically altered by human activity.

• Ronald, Pamela C., 1997, "Making Rice Disease-Resistant." Scientific American, 277 (5), November, 1997, pages 100-105. For the first time, scientists have used genetic engineering to protect this essential crop from disease.

• Rosen, Harold A., and Castleman, Deborah R., 1997, "Flywheels in Hybrid Vehicles." Scientific American, 277 (4), October, 1997, pages 75-77. A rapidly spinning flywheel combines with a gas-turbine engine to power a novel hybrid electric vehicle.

• Sime, Ruth Lewin, 1998, "Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission." Scientific American, 278 (1), January, 1998, pages 80-85. One of the discoverers of fission in 1938, Meitner was at the time overlooked by the Nobel judges. Racial persecution, fear, and opportunism combined to obscure her contributions.

• Singer, S. Fred, 1997, "The Sky Isn't Falling, and the Ocean Isn't Rising." The Wall Street Journal, editorial page guest essay. [Date: not visible on clipping - sorry; probably in the Fall.] Contrary to activists' claims, what's clear is that global warming - if it takes place - would slow any rise in sea levels. Greater rainfall from faster equatorial evaporation would cause more polar ice accumulation, offsetting mountain glacier melting and ocean volumetric expansion.

• Styer, Daniel F., 2000, "Insight into entropy." American Journal of Physics, 68, pages 1090-1096.

• Wouk, Victor, 1997, "Hybrid Electric Vehicles." Scientific American, 277 (4), October, 1997, pages 70-74. They will reduce pollution and conserve petroleum. But will people buy them, even if the vehicles have astounding fuel efficiency?

Dick Piccard revised this file (http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~piccard/entropy/bibliography.html) on June 18, 2006.

Please E-Mail any comments or suggestions to piccard@ohio.edu.