UVM/GIV Engineering Summer Institute June 27 - July 4, 2009

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Recommended Reading

Books recommended by the Institute's staff about the role of engineering in the 21st century.


Guns, Germs and Steel
By Jared Diamond		 The Myth of Progress
By Tom Wessels
 
Collapse
By Jared Diamond		 Deep Economy
By Bill McKibben
 
Beyond Oil
By Kenneth S. Deffeyes		 Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook
By Greg Pahl
 
The World is Flat
By Thomas L. Friedman		 The Omnivore's Dilemma
By Michael Pollan
 
The Universe in a Nutshell
By Stephen Hawkins		 Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
By William McDonough & Michael Braungart
 
The Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age
By Daniel Pink		 Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
By Richard Louv
 
An Inconvenient Truth
By Al Gore
 
This Moment On Earth
By John and Teresa Kerry