Partial view of Libb Thims' thermodynamics book collection, IoHT, Chicago (c. 2005).

In libraries, Thims' thermodynamics book collection (277+) is a growing set of thermodynamics books and textbooks maintained by American chemical engineer Libb Thims; one of the world's largest collections. [1] Thims' loose aim is to collect every book on thermodynamics ever published.

“Your bibliography helps greatly. Please accept my compliments for publishing it!”

— New Member (geological thermodynamicist), comment to site creator Sadi-Carnot, Aug 7, 2009. [3]

History of collection
In circa 1991, Thims owned zero books. From circa 1992 to 1997, Thims began to amass books as he began to educate himself on the subjects of, primarily, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, evolutionary psychology, and neuroscience, obtaining degrees in the former two subjects, and getting past the ½-Buffett number in the latter two subjects.

In circa 1995, Thims began to ruminate on the puzzling question of how one would applied the basic chemical thermodynamic rule of the chemical reaction spontaneity criterion (ΔG < 0 = spontaneous reaction) to human reaction of sex, love, and reproduction, in which two react to produce a third newly synthesized product (a baby), and thereafter began searching for previous theories on this topic, a which point his thermodynamics book collection began to grow.

Some of the core books in Libb Thims' thermodynamics book collection: the three most germane to human thermodynamics being: (1) Clausius' 1875 Mechanical Theory of Heat, (2) Gibbs' 1876 Equilibrium on the Heterogeneous Substances, and (3) Lewis' 1923 Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances.

Thims began to keep an actual 'running count' of his personal book collection when, in May of 2006, during a conversation with American four-degreed engineer (BS, MS, PhD chemical engineering, ME nuclear engineering) James Lawler, on the topic of Peruvian engineer Alfredo Infante’s circa 2001 social entropy theory, Lawler informed Thims that he had a book collection of over 4,000 books, in three different homes, some in triplicate, after which, Thims, out of curiosity, counted his own personal book collection, finding it in the 850 book count range, a collection having a growth rate of 57 books per year (since 1991).

Thims since has made a specific effort to make sure that on the one topic of human thermodynamics and thermodynamics in general that no person or library in the world has more thermodynamics books than he does. In 2007, Thims' personal library stood at just past the 1,000 book mark. [2]

Recent additions:
The following thermodynamics related books were purchased by Thims within the last few months (circa Nov 09-Mar 2010):

1. Wallace, Thomas P. (2009). Wealth, Energy, and Human Values: the Dynamics of Decaying Civilizations from Ancient Greece to America (pg. 2). AuthorHouse.
2. Fowler, Ralph and Guggenheim, Eduard A. (1939). Statistical Thermodynamics: a Version of Statistical Mechanics for Students of Physics and Chemistry (zeroth law: pg. 56 - coined). Cambridge University Press.
3. Butler, J.A.V. (1935). The Fundamentals of Chemical Thermodynamics (Part 1: Elementary Theory and Electrochemistry / Part 2: thermodynamical Functions and Their Applications). Macmillan and Co.
4. Gonzalez-Wippler, Migene. (1997). What Happens After Death: Scientific & Personal Evidence for Survival (thermodynamics, pgs. 5-7, 10). Llewellyn Publishers.
5. Gatlin, Lila L. (1972). Information Theory and the Living System. Columbia University Press.
6. Guillen, Michael. (1996). Five Equations that Changed the World: the Power and Poetry of Mathematics (ch. 4: An Unprofitable Experience: Rudolf Clausius and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, pgs. 165-214). Hyperion.
7. Spanner, D. C. (1964). An Introduction to Thermodynamics: Experimental Botany. Academic Press.
8. Rifkin, Jeremy. (2003). Hydrogen Economy: the Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth (Thermodynamics of Rome, pgs. 57-63). Penguin Group.
9. Ying, Leong. (2007). Klystar (thermodynamics, pgs. 129, etc., Universal Law of Thermodynamics, back matter; entropy, 11+pages). Tate Publishing & Enterprises.
10. Kelly, Kevin. (1994). Out of Control: the New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (extropy, pg. 106; entropy, pgs. 79, 405-06, 413, 452). Addison Wesley.

Pre-thermodynamics:

See main: Affinity, Dynamics, Caloric theory, etc.

1. Bergman, Torbern. (1775). A Dissertation on Elective Attractions. London: Frank Cass & Co.
2. Lavoisier, Antoine. (1789). Elements of Chemistry. London: G.G. and J.J. Robinsons.
3. Hamilton, William R. (1835). On a General Method in Dynamics, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Classical thermodynamics:

See main: Classical thermodynamics

1. Carnot, Sadi. (1824). “Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire and on Machines Fitted to Develop that Power.” Paris: Chez Bachelier, Libraire, Quai Des Augustins, No. 55.
2. Clapeyron, Emile. (1834). “Memoir on the Motive Power of Heat”, Journal de l’Ecole Polytechnique.
3. Clausius, Rudolf. (1850). "On the Motive Power of Heat, and on the Laws Which can be Deduced From it for the Theory of Heat." Poggendorff's Annalen der Physik, LXXIX, 368, 500.
4. Helmholtz, Hermann von. (1862). "On the Conservation of Force", Introduction to a Series of Lectures Delivered at the Carsruhe in the Winter of 1862-63.
5. Tait, Peter G. (1868). Sketch of Thermodynamics. Kessinger Publisher (reprint).
6. Maxwell, James C. (1871). Theory of Heat. New York: Dover (reprint).
7. McCulloch, Richard S. (1876). Treatise on the Mechanical Theory of Heat - and its Applications to the Steam-Engine, etc. New York: D. Van Nostrand Publishers.
8. Clausius, Rudolf. (1879). The Mechanical Theory of Heat, London: Macmillan & Co. (second edition), original.

General thermodynamics:

See main: Thermodynamics, etc.

1. Planck, Max. (1897). Treatise on Thermodynamics. Dover.
2. Poincare, Henri. (1903). Science and Hypothesis. Dover.
3. Haber, Fritz. (1905). Thermodynamics of Technical Gas Reactions. Longmans, Green, and Co.
4. Nernst, Walther. (1926). The New Heat Theorem: Its Foundations in Theory and Experiment. E.P. Dutton & Co.
5. Bridgman, Percy W. (1934). The Thermodynamics of Electrical Phenomena; and a Condensed Collection of Thermodynamics Formulas. Dover, 1961.
6. Fermi, Enrico. (1936). Thermodynamics. New York: Dover.
7. Epstein, Paul. (1937). Textbook of Thermodynamics. John Wiley & Sons.
8. Bridgman, Peter W. (1941). The Nature of Thermodynamics. New York: Harper Torchbooks.
9. Keenan, Joseph H. (1941). Thermodynamics. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
10. Zemansky, Mark W. (1943). Heat and Thermodynamics - an Intermediate Textbook for Students of Physics, Chemistry, and Engineering (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.
11. Orbert, Edward F. (1948). Thermodynamics. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.
12. Guggenheim, Eduard. (1959). Thermodynamics - an Advanced Treatment for Chemists and Physicists, 4th Ed. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co.
13. Hill, Terrell L. (1964). Thermodynamics of Small Systems - Two Volumes Bound as One. New York: Dover.
14. Hatsopoulos, George N. and Keenan, Joseph H. (1965). Principles of General Thermodynamics. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
15. Reiss, Howard. (1965). Methods of Thermodynamics. New York: Dover (reprint).
16. Kestin, Joseph. (1966). A Course in Thermodynamics. London: Blaisdell Publishing Co.
17. Tisza, Laszlo. (1966). Generalized Thermodynamics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
18. Tykodi, Ralph J. (1967). Thermodynamics of Steady State. MacMillan.
19. Ness, H.C., Van. (1969). Understanding Thermodynamics. New York: Dover.
20. Wood, Bernard D. (1982). Applications of Thermodynamics (2nd ed.). London: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
21. Adkins, C.J. (1983). Equilibrium Thermodynamics (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
22. Waldram, J.R. (1985). The Theory of Thermodynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
23. Wald, Robert M. (1994). Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime and Blackhole Thermodynamics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
24. Black, William Z. and Hartley, James G. (1996). Thermodynamics (3rd ed.). New York: Harper Collins.
25. Perrot, Pierre. (1998). A to Z of Thermodynamics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
26. Kondepudi, Dilip and Prigogine, Ilya. (1998). Modern Thermodynamics – from Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
27. Honig, J.M. (1999). Thermodynamics (2nd ed.). New York: Academic Press.
28. Wark, Kenneth and Richards, Donald E. (1999). Thermodynamics (6th ed.).New York: McGraw-Hill.
29. Gyftopoulos, Elias P. and Berretta, Gian-Paolo. (2005). Thermodynamics - Foundations and Applications (2nd ed.). New York: Dover.
30. Haddad, Wassim, M., Chellaboina, VijaySekhar, and Nersesov, Sergey, G. (2005). Thermodynamics - a Dynamical Systems Approach. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Chemical thermodynamics:

See main: Chemical thermodynamics

1. Gibbs, J. Willard. (1873). "Graphical Methods in the Thermodynamics of Fluids", Transactions of the Connecticut Academy, I. pp. 309-342, April-May.
2. Gibbs, J. Willard. (1873). "A Method of Geometrical Representation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Substances by Means of Surfaces", Transactions of the Connecticut Academy, II. pp.382-404, Dec.
3. Gibbs, Willard. (1876). "On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances", Transactions of the Connecticut Academy, III. pp. 108-248, Oct., 1875-May, 1876, and pp. 343-524, may, 1877-July, 1878.
4. Sackur, Otto. (1917). A Textbook of Thermo-chemistry and Thermodynamics. MacMillan.
5. Lewis, Gilbert N. and Randall, Merle. (1923). Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.
6. Partington, J.R. (1924). Chemical Thermodynamics: An Introduction to General Thermodynamics and its Applications to Chemistry. D. Van Nostrand.
7. Guggenheim, Eduard, A. (1933). Modern Thermodynamics by the Methods of Willard Gibbs. London: Methuen & Co.
8. Glasstone, Samuel B. (1946). Thermodynamics for Chemists. D. Van Nostrand Co.
9. Rossini, Frederick D. (1950). Chemical Thermodynamics, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
10. Koltz, Irving M. (1950). Chemical Thermodynamics - Basic Theory and Methods. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
11. Kirkwood, J.G. and Oppennheim, Irwin. (1961). Chemical Thermodynamics. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc.
12. Mahan, Bruce H. (1963). Elementary Chemical Thermodynamics. New York: Dover (reprint).
13. Waser, Jurg. (1966). Basic Chemical Thermodynamics. New York: W.A. Benjamin, Inc.
14. Nash, Leonard K. (1970). Elements of Chemical Thermodynamics (2nd ed.), New York: Dover (reprint).
15. Denbigh, Kenneth. (1981). The Principles of Chemical Equilibrium (4th ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
16. Felder, Richard M. and Rousseau, Ronald W. (1986). Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
17. Wood, Scott E. and Battino, Rubin. (1990). Thermodynamics of Chemical Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
18. Reid, Charles E. (1990). Chemical Thermodynamics. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
19. Boerio-Goates, Juliana, and Ott, J., Bevan. (2000). Chemical Thermodynamics - Principles and Applications. New York: Elsevier Academic Press.
20. Smith, Brian E. (2004). Basic Chemical Thermodynamics (4th ed.). London: Imperial College Press.

Molecular thermodynamics:

See main: Molecular thermodynamics

1. Dickerson, Richard E. (1969). Molecular Thermodynamics. London: The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co.
2. Grunwald, Ernest. (1997). Thermodynamics of Molecular Species. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Statistical thermodynamics:

See main: Statistical thermodynamics

1. Boltzmann, Ludwig. (1895). Lectures on Gas Theory. New York: Dover (reprint).
2. Gibbs, J. Willard (1901). Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics - Developed with Special Reference to the Rational Foundation of Thermodynamics. New York: Dover (reprint).
3. Schrodinger, Erwin. (1952). Statistical Thermodynamics (2nd ed.). New York: Dover (reprint).
4. Harris, Stewart. (1971). An Introduction to the Theory of the Boltzmann Equation. New York: Dover.
5. Pauli, Wolfgang. (1973). Thermodynamics and the Kinetic Theory of Gases – Pauli Lectures on Physics Volume 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
6. Nash, Leonard, K. (1974). Elements of Statistical Thermodynamics (2nd ed.), New York: Dover (reprint).
7. Landsberg, Peter T. (1978). Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. New York: Dover.
8. Callen, Herbert B. (1985). Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics

See main: Nonequilibrium thermodynamics

1. Prigogine, Ilya. (1955). Introduction to Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes. Charles C. Thomas.
2. Groot, S.R. de. (1961). Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics. New York: Dover.
3. Katchalsky, A. and Curran, Peter F. (1965). Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics in Biophysics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
4. Caplan, Roy S. and Essig Alvin. (1983). Bioenergetics and Linear Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics. Cambridge: London: Harvard University Press.
5. Tykodi, Ralph J. (2002). Thermodynamics of Systems in Nonequilibrium States. USA: Thinkers' Press.

Engineering thermodynamics:

See main: Engineering thermodynamics

1. Reynolds, William, C. and Perkins, Henry, C. (1977). Engineering Thermodynamics (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.
2. Moran, Michael J. and Shapiro, Howard N. (1992). Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
3. Howell, John R. and Buckius Richard O. (1992). Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
4. Cengel, Yunus A. and Boles, Michael A. (2002). Thermodynamics: an Engineering Approach (4th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Chemical engineering thermodynamics:

See main: Chemical engineering thermodynamics

1. Balzhiser, Richard, E., Samuels, Michael R., and Eliassen, John, D. (1972). Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics - the Study of Energy, Entropy, and Equilibrium. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
2. Modell, Michael and Reid, Robert C. (1974). Thermodynamics and Its Applications in Chemical Engineering, (pg. 92). Prentice-Hall.
3. Sandler, Stanley, I. (1989). Chemical and Engineering Thermodynamics (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
4. Fogler, Scott H. (1992). Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
5. Smith, J.M. Van Ness, H.C., and Abbott, M.M. (2005). Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (7th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc.

Human thermodynamics books:

See main: Human thermodynamics

1. Zamyatin, Yevgeny. (1921). We (introduction). Penguin.
2. Darwin, Charles G. (1952). The Next Million Years ("human thermodynamics", pg. 26), (PDF), (Google Books). London: Rupert Hart-Davis.
3. White, Leslie. (1959). The Evolution of Culture: the Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome (ch. 2: Energy and Tools: Wilhelm Ostwald, Lotka, Negative entropy, pgs. 33-49). McGraw-Hill.
4. Pynchon, Thomas. (1966). The Crying of Lot 49 (Maxwell’s demon, pgs. 68-69, 84-85, 88, 98, 134). Bantam.
5. Neiburg, H.L. (1973). Culture Storm – Politics and the Ritual Order, (ch. 5: “Political Thermodynamics”, pgs. 81-104). New York: St. Martin’s Press.
6. Miller, George T. (1971). Energetics, Kinetics, and Life: an Ecological Approach (section: 2.4: Entropy and Ethics, pg. 328). Wadsworth Pub. Co.
7. Blissett, Marlan. (1972). Politics in Science, (ch. 3: Big Science and the Laws of Social Thermodynamics, pg. 25-; term: entropy, pgs. 26, 53, 66, etc.). Little, Brown and Co.
8. Lindsay, Robert B. (1973). The Role of Science in Civilization, (section: Information and Thermodynamics: Entropy, pgs. 153-164; section: A Scientific Analogy: The Thermodynamic imperative). Greenwood Pub. Group.
9. Commoner, Barry. (1976). The Poverty of Power: Energy and the Economic Crisis (ch. 2: Thermodynamics: the Science of Power). Alfred A. Knopf.
10. Fernández-Galiano, Luis. (1982). Fire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy. MIT Press.
11. Slade, Joseph W. (1990). Beyond Two Cultures: Essays on Science, Technology, and Literature, (ch. 9: Entropy as Root Metaphor, pgs. 185-200). Iowa State University Press.
12. Rosnay, Joel. (1995). The Symbiotic Man: a New Understanding of the Organization of Life and (term: entropy, pgs. 30, 127, 202) (Phyllis Aronoff, 2000 Engl. Trans.). McGraw-Hill.
13. Levy, Pierre. (1997). Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace (keyword: "human thermodynamics", pg. 52). New York: Basic Books.
14. Ullis, Karlis (1999). Age Right - Turn Back the Clock with a Proven Antiaging Program, (section: "Human Thermodynamics", pg. 34-36) New York: Simon & Schuster.
15. DeMarco, Tom and Lister, Timoth. (1999). Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (section: Corporate entropy, pg. 99). Dorset House Pub. Co.
16. Valarino, Evelyn E. (2001). On the Other Side of Life: Exploring the Phenomenon of Near-death Experience (keyword: Entropy, pgs. 9, 170, 177, 211-12; ch. 6: “Dialogue with Louis-Marie Vincent, PhD”, pgs. 176-92; section: What about thermodynamic time?, pgs. 170-; section: Energy, pgs. 176-). Da Capo Press.
17. Hokikian, Jack. (2002). The Science of Disorder: Understanding the Complexity, Uncertainty, and Pollution in Our World. Los Feliz Publishing.
18. Hammond, Dick K. (2005). The Human System from Entropy to Ethics. (part 3: The Entropy Ethic, pgs. 63-94). Publisher: Dick Hammond.
19. Nørretranders, Tor. (2006). The Generous Man: How Helping Others is the Sexist Thing You Can Do, (theory: "thermodynamic depth", pg. 180) (English translation). Da Capo Press.
20. Kenoun, Robert. (2006). A Proposition to Theory of History and Social Evolution. Trafford Publishing.
21. Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume One), (preview). (Index: "human thermodynamics", pgs. x, 14, 74, 79, 107, 110, 204, 273, 315). Morrisville, NC: LuLu.
22. Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume Two), (preview), (Ch. 16: "Human Thermodynamics", pgs. 653-702). Morrisville, NC: LuLu.
23. Thims, Libb. (2008). The Human Molecule, (preview) (keyword: “human thermodynamics”, pgs. 50-51, 89, 92, 94-100). Morrisville, NC: LuLu.
24. Ejike, Satch U. (2008). Find a Good Man and Keep Him (keyword: "human thermodynamics", pg. 30) (Google Books). AuthorHouse.

Life thermodynamics

See main: Life thermodynamics

1. Thurston, Robert H. (1894). The Animal as a Machine and Prime Motor: and the Laws of Energetics. John Wiley & Sons.
2. Sidis, William J. (1920). The Animate and the Inanimate, 131-pgs, (published in 1925, R.G. Badger).
3. Johnstone, James. (1921). The Mechanism of Life in Relation to Modern Physical Theory, (pgs. 192-203). New York: Longmans, Green & Co.
4. Sherrington, Charles. (1940). Man on His Nature (pg. 78). CUP Archive.
5. Ubbelohde, Alfred René. (1955). Man and Energy ... Illustrated, (Section: XIII: Thermodynamics and Life, pg. 183-200, Section: XIV: Thermodynamic Laws and Cognition, pg. 201-09). London: Braziller.
6. Blumberg, Mark S. (2002). Body Heat: Temperature and Life on Earth. Harvard University Press.
7. Kurzynski, Michal. (2006). The Thermodynamic Machinery of Life. New York: Springer.

Energy / entropy, etc.

See main: Energy, Entropy

1. Alekseev G.N. (1987). Energy and Entropy. Imported Publishers.
2. Fenn, John, B. (1982). Engines, Energy, and Entropy, San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Co.
3. Smil, Vaclav. (1999). Energies - an Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization. London: The MIT Press.
4. Laidler, Keith J. (2002). Energy and the Unexpected, (pg. 31). Oxford University Press.

Entropy / second law of thermodynamics, etc.:

See main: Entropy, Second law of thermodynamics, etc.

1. Fast, J.D. (1962). Entropy - the Significance of the Concept of Entropy and its Applications in Science in Technology. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc.
2. Bent, Henry A. (1965). The Second Law - an Introduction to Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics. New York: Oxford University Press.
3. Angrist, Stanley W. and Helper, Loren G. (1967). Order and Chaos – Laws of Energy and Entropy. New York: Basic Books.
4. Arnheiim, Rudolf. (1974). Entropy and Art: an Essay on Disorder and Order. University of California Press.
5. McIntyre, Vonda N. (1981). The Entropy Effect. Publisher: Star Trek.
6. Atkins, Peter W. (1984). The Second Law. New York: Scientific American Books.
7. Brooks, Daniel R. and Wiley E.O. (1988). Evolution and Entropy (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
8. Morowitz, Harold J. (1996). Entropy and the Magic Flute: S = k ln W = dQ/T = - fΣfi ln fi. Oxford University Press.
9. Dugdale, J.S. (1998). Entropy and its Physical Meaning. London: Taylor and Francis.
10. Greven, Andreas, Keller, Gerhard, and Warnecke, Gerald. (2003). Entropy (Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
11. Ben-Naim, Arieh. (2007). Entropy Demystified - the Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense. London: World Scientific.
12. Schmitz, John E.J. (2007). The Second Law of Life: Energy, Technology, and the Future of Earth as We Know It. William Andrew Publishing.

Time / arrow of time books:

See main: Time, Arrow of time, Thermodynamic arrow, etc.

1. Eddington, Arthur. (1923). The Nature of the Physical World. Michigan: The University of Michigan Press.
2. Ubbelohde, Alfred René. (1947). Time and Thermodynamics. Oxford University Press.
3. Blum, Harold F. (1951). Time's Arrow and Evolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
4. Morris, Richard. (1986). Time's Arrow: Scientific Attitudes Toward Time. Touchstone.
5. Lestienne, Remy. (1990). The Children of Time: Causality, Entropy, Becoming. Eng. Trans. by E.C. Neher, 1995. University of Illinois Press.
6. Mackey, Michael C. (1992). Time's Arrow - the Origin of Thermodynamic Behavior. New York: Dover.
7. Hawking, Stephen. (1996). The Illustrated - A Brief History of Time, (ch. 9: "The Arrow of Time", pgs. 182-95). New York: Bantam Books.
8. Klein, Stefan. (2006). The Secret Pulse of Time - Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity, (pgs. 253-55). New York: Marlowe & Company.

The laws of thermodynamics books:

See main: Laws of thermodynamics

1. Goldstein, Martin and Goldstein, Inge F. (1993). The Refrigerator and the Universe - Understanding the Laws of Energy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
2. Atkins, Peter. (2007). Four Laws - that Drive the Universe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Temperature:

See main: Temperature

1. Shachtman, Tom. (1999). Absolute Zero and the Quest for Absolute Cold. New York: Mariner Books.
2. Segre, Gino. (2002). A Matter of Degrees - What Temperature Reveals About the Past and the Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe. London: Penguin Books.

Heat:

See main: Heat

1. Mendelsohn, Everett I. (1964). Heat and Life: the Development of the Theory of Animal Heat, (pg. 9). Harvard University Press.
2. Welty, James R., Wicks, Charles E., and Wilson, Robert E. (1984). Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer (3rd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Thermodynamics history books:

See main: History of thermodynamics

1. Rabinbach, Anson. (1990). The Human Motor - Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2. Cobb, Cathy, and Rarold, Goldwhite. (1995). Creations of Fire - Chemistry's Lively History from Alchemy to the Atomic Age. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Publishing.
3. Baeyer, Hans C. von (1999). Warmth Disperses and Time Passes - the History of Heat. New York: The Modern Library.
4. Smith, Crosbie. (1998). The Science of Energy - a Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
5. Sproule, Anna. (2001). James Watt: Master of the Steam Engine. Blackbirch Press, Inc.
   
6. Muller, Ingo. (2007). A History of Thermodynamics - the Doctrine of Energy and Entropy. New York: Springer.

Biochemical thermodynamics:

See main: Biochemical thermodynamics, Bioenergetics, Biological thermodynamics, etc.

1. Lotka, Alfred J. (1926). Elements of Physical Biology. New York: Dover.
2. Krebs, H.A. and Kornberg, H.L. (1957). Energy Transformations in Living Matter - a Survey (with Appendix by K. Burton). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
3. Morowitz, Harold J. (1970). Entropy for Biologists - an Introduction to Thermodynamics. New York: Academic Press.
4. Lehninger, Albert L. (1973). Bioenergetics - the Molecular Basis of Biological Energy Transformations (2nd ed.). London: The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co.
5. Di-Cera, Enrio. (1995). Thermodynamic Theory of Site-Specific Binding in Biological Macromolecules. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Hammes, Gordon G. (2000). Thermodynamics and Kinetics for the Biological Sciences. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
7. Di-Cera, Enrico. (2000). Thermodynamics in Biology, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
8. Haynie, Donald. (2001). Biological Thermodynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
9. Raffa, Robert B. (2001). Drug-Receptor Thermodynamics - Introduction and Applications. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
10. Nicholls, David G. and Ferguson, Stuart J. (2001). Bioenergetics3 (2nd ed, 4th printing). New York: Academic Press.
11. Alberty, Robert, A. (2003). Thermodynamic of Biochemical Reactions. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Ecological thermodynamics:

See main: Ecological thermodynamics, Ecodynamics, Ecological economics, etc.

1. Odum, Howard, T. and Elisabeth, Odum, C. (1976). Energy Basis for Man and Nature. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.
2. Ulanowicz, Robert E. (1986). Growth and Development - Ecosystems Phenomenology. New York: toExcell Press.
3. Peet, John. (1992). Energy and the Ecological Economics of Sustainability. Washington D.C.: Island Press.
4. Goldsmith, Edward. (1998). The Way: An Ecological World-View, (pgs. 13-14) (Appendix One: Does the Entropy Law Apply to the Real World?, pgs 439-48). University of Georgia Press.
5. Giannantoni, Corrado. (2002). The Maximum Em-Power Principle as the Basis for Thermodynamics of Quality. Servizi Grafici Editoriali Publishers.
6. Jorgensen, Sven E. and Svirezhev, Yuri M. (2004). Towards a Thermodynamic Theory for Ecological Systems. New York: Elsevier.
7. Schneider, Eric D. and Sagan, Dorion. (2005). Into the Cool - Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Earth sciences thermodynamics:

See main: Geothermodynamics, Geochemical thermodynamics

1. Kern, Raymond and Weisbrod, Alain. (1967). Thermodynamics for Geologists. San Francisco: Freeman, Cooper and Co.
2. Anderson, Greg, M. and Crerar, David A. (1993). Thermodynamics in Geochemistry - the Equilibrium Model. New York: Oxford University Press.
3. Anderson, Greg M. (1996). Thermodynamics of Natural Systems. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
4. Anderson, Greg M. (2005). Thermodynamics of Natural Systems (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Business thermodynamics

See main: Business thermodynamics

1. DeMarco, Tom and Lister, Timothy. (1999). Peopleware – Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd ed. (Section: “Corporate Entropy”, pg. 98). New York: Dorset House Publishing.
2. Callaway, Marguerite M. (2006). The Energetics of Business. Chicago: Lincoln Park Publications.

Economic thermodynamics books:

See main: Economic thermodynamics, Physio-Economics, etc.

1. Soddy, Frederick. (1926). Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt: the Solution of the Economic Paradox. London: George Allen & Unwin.
2. Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas. (1971). The Entropy Law and the Economic Process. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
3. Mirowski, Philip. (1989). More Heat than Light – Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature’s Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Sieniutycz, Stanislaw and Salamon, Peter. (1990). Finite-Time Thermodynamics and Thermoeconomics. New York: Taylor & Francis.
5. Burley, Peter and Foster, John. (1994). Economics and Thermodynamics – New Perspectives on Economic Analysis. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
6. Parker, Philip. (2000). Physioeconomics - the Basis for Long-Run Economic Growth. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
7. Chalidze, Valery. (2000). Entropy Demystified - Potential Order, Life and Money. USA: Universal Publishers.
8. Chen, Jing. (2005). The Physical Foundations of Economics - an Analytical Thermodynamic Theory, London: World Scientific.
9. Beinhocker, Eric, D. (2006). The Origin of Wealth – Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics. (ch. 14: “A New Definition of Wealth – Fit Order" (topic: Economic Thermodynamics, pgs. 299-319)). Boston, Mass.: Harvard Businees School Press.
10. Pogany, Peter. (2006). Rethinking the World (ch. 5: Cultural and Cultural Evolution in the Context of Thermodynamics, pg. 103-38). iUniverse (and Shenandoah Valley Research Press).
11. Ksenzhek, Octavian S. (2007). Money: Virtual Energy - Economy through the Prism of Thermodynamics, Universal Publishers.

Social thermodynamics:

See main: Sociological thermodynamics, Socio-thermodynamics, etc.

In addition to the following short list, Gladyshev, in his 1997 book A Thermodynamic Theory on the Origin of Living Beings has excerpts on "social thermodynamics", Muller and Weiss in their 2005 book Energy and Entropy, have a chapter on "socio-thermodynamics", and Muller has a small amount of material on socio-thermodynamics in his 2007 book A History of Thermodynamics.

1. Adams, Henry, and Brooks, Adams. (1910). "A Letter to American Teachers of History", Kessinger Publishing (reprint).
2. Henderson, Lawrence J. (1935). Pareto’s General Sociology: a Physiologists Interpretation. Harvard University Press.
3. Nisbet, Robert A. (1970). The Social Bond - an Introduction to the Study of Society, (ch. 10: "Social Entropy", pgs. 260-98). New York: Alfred A. Knoph.
4. Rosnay, Joel de. (1975). The Macroscope - a New World Scientific System. New York: Harper & Row Publishers.
5. Porteus, Elizabeth, D. (1987). My Twentieth Century Philosophy. New York: Carlton Press, Inc.
6. Bailey, Kenneth D. (1990). Social Entropy Theory, New York: State University of New York Press.
7. Bailey, Kenneth D. (1994). Sociology and the New Systems Theory: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis. SUNY Press.
8. Müller, Ingo and Weiss, Wolf. (2005). Entropy and Energy - a Universal Competition ("Socio-thermodynamics - Integration and Segregation in a Population", ch. 20).Germany: Springer.
   

Atmospheric thermodynamics:

See main: Atmospheric thermodynamics

1. Tsonis, Anastasios A. (2002). An introduction to Atmosphere Thermodynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Zdunkowski, Wilford and Bott, Andreas. (2004). Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere - A Course in Theoretical Meteorology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Physical chemistry books:

See main: Physical chemistry

1. Taylor, Hugh, S. and Glasstone, Samuel. (1942). A Treatise on Physical Chemistry - Volume One: Atomistics and Thermodynamics. (3rd ed.). New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc.
2. Randall, Merle and Young, Leona E. (1942). Elementary Physical Chemistry. Randall and Sons.
3. Barrow, Gordon M. (1988). Physical Chemistry (5th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
4. Atkins, Peter. (1998). Physical Chemistry (6th ed.). New York: W.H. Freeman and Co.
5. Silbey, Robert J. and Alberty, Robert A. (2001). Physical Chemistry (3rd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Thermal physics / thermal sciences:

See main: Thermal physics

1. Baierlein, Ralph. (1999). Thermal Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Schroeder, Daniel, V. (2000). An Introduction to Thermal Physics. New York: Addison Wesley Longman.
3. Lee, Jooh, C. (2002). Thermal Physics - Entropy and Free Energies. London: World Scientific.
4. Potter, Merle C. and Scott, Elaine P. (2004). Thermal Sciences - an Introduction to Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat Transfer. U.S.: Brooks/Cole.

Evolution thermodynamics / origin of life (thermodynamic):

See main: Thermodynamic evolution, Evolution thermodynamics, Self-Organization, etc.

1. Vernadsky, Vladimir I. (1926). The Biosphere. New York: A Peter N. Nevraumount Book.
2. Schrodinger, Erwin. (1944). What is Life? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Oster, G.F., Silver, I.L., and Tobias, C.A. (1974). Irreversible Thermodynamics and the Origin of Life. New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers.
4. Lovelock, James. (1979). Gaia - a New Look at Life on Earth. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. Margulis, Lynn and Sagan, Dorion. (1995). What is Life? Berkeley: University of California Press.
6. Fox, Ronald F. (1988). Energy and the Evolution of Life. New York: W.H. Freeman and Co.
7. Morowitz, Harlod J. (1992). Beginnings of Cellular Life - Metabolism Recapitulates Biogenesis. New Haven: Yale University Press.
8. Kauffman, Stuart. (1995). At Home in the Universe - the Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
9. Capra, Fritjof. (1996). The Web of Life - a New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. New York: Anchor Books.
10. Gladyshev, Georgi, P. (1997). Thermodynamic Theory of the Evolution of Living Beings. Commack, New York: Nova Science Publishers.
11. Chaisson, Eric J. (2001). Cosmic Evolution - the Rise of Complexity in Nature. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
12. Lurquin, Paul F. (2003). The Origins of Life and the Universe. New York: Columbia University Press.
13. Avery, John. (2003). Information Theory and Evolution. London: World Scientific.
14. Hazen, Robert M. (2005). Genesis - the Scientific Quest for Life's Origin.

Psycho-thermodynamics / Psychodynamics:

See main: Psychodynamics

1. Freud, Sigmund. (1920). Beyond the Pleasure Principle. New York: W.W. Norton.
2. Freud, Sigmund. (1923). The Ego and the Id. New York: W.W. Norton.
3. Jung, Carl. (1946). The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. Vol. 8 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung.
4. Hall, Calvin S. (1954). A Primer in Freudian Psychology. New York: Meridian Books.
5. Hall, Calvin S. and Nordby, Vernon J. (1973). A Primer in Jungian Psychology. New York: Meridian Books.
6. Horowitz, Mardi, J. (1988). Introduction to Psychodynamics - a New Synthesis. New York: Basic Books, Inc.

Dissipative structures theory:

See main: Dissipative structure, Far-from-equilibrium, Bifurcations, Fluctuations, etc.

1. Prigogine, Ilya. (1980). From Being to Becoming – Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Co.
2. Prigogine, Ilya. (1984). Order Out of Chaos – Man’s New Dialogue with Nature. New York: Bantam Books.
3. Gregoire, Nicolis and Prigogine, Illya. (1989). Exploring Complexity - an Introduction. New York: Freeman and Co.
4. Prigogine, Illya. (1996). The End of Certainty - Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature. New York: The Free Press.
5. Capra, Fritjof. (1996). The Web of Life - A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. New York: Anchor books.

Thermodynamic biographies:

See main: Willard Gibbs, Robert Mayer, Hermann Helmholtz, Ludwig Boltzmann, James Watt, Fritz Haber, etc.

1. Rankine, William, J.M. (1881). Miscellaneous Scientific Papers, (GB). C. Griffin and Co. (2001, Adamant Media Corporation, reprint).
2. Rukeyser, Muriel. (1942). Willard Gibbs - American Genius. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.
3. Wheeler, Lynde, P. (1951). Josiah Willard Gibbs - the History of a Great Mind. Woodbridge, Connecticut: Ox Bow Press.
4. Gillispie, Charles C. (1971). Lazare Carnot Savant: A Monograph Treating Carnot’s Scientific Work. Princeton University Press.
5. Caneva, Kenneth L. (1993). Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
6. Cahan, David. (1993). Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science. Berkeley: University of California Press.
7. Cercignani, Carlo. (1998). Ludwig Boltzmann - the Man Who Trusted Atoms. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
8. Lindley, David. (2001). Boltzmann's Atom - the Great Debate that Launched a Revolution in Physics. New York: The Free Press.
9. Sproule, Anna. (2001). James Watt - Master of the Steam Engine. WoodBridge, Connecticut: Blackbirch Press, Inc.
10. Lindley, David. (2004). Degrees Kelvin - a Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press.
11. Cropper, William H. (2004). Great Physicists: the Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking (section II: Thermodynamics, pgs. 41-134). Oxford University Press.
12. Charles, Daniel. (2005). Master Mind - the Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare. New York: Harper Collins Publishers.

Information theory / cybernetics / chaos theory / emergence / etc.:

See main: Information, Information thermodynamics, Chaos

The following lists books that have made an attempt to blend thermodynamic theories together, in one way or another, with a similar or connected field of study, such as emergence, chaos theory, information theory, cybernetics, general systems theory, ect.:

1. Shannon, Claude E. and Weaver, Warren. (1949). The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Illinois: The University of Illinois Press.
2. Wiener, Norbert. (1950). The Human Uses of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
3. Wiener, Norbert. (1961). Cybernetics - or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
4. Brillouin, Leon. (1962). Science and Information Theory (2nd ed.). New York: Dover (reprint).
5. Bertalanffy, Ludwig von. (1968). General Systems Theory - Foundations, Development, Applications. New York: George Braziller.
6. Campbell, Jeremy. (1982). Grammatical Man - Information, Entropy, Language, and Life. new York: Simon and Schuster.
7. Gleick, James. (1987). Chaos - Making a New Science. New York: Penguin Books.
8. Sardar, Ziauddin and Abrams, Iwona. (1998). Introducing Chaos. USA: Totem Books.
9. Applebaum, David. (1996). Probability and Information - an Integrated Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
10. McFadden, Johnjoe. (2000). Quantum Evolution - How Physics' Weirdest Theory Explains Life's Biggest Mystery. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
11. Strogatz, Steven. (2003). Sync - the Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. New York: Theia.
12. Baeyer, Hans Christian von. (2004). Information - the New Language of Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
13. Yockey, Hubert P. (2005). Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Religious thermodynamics books

See main: Religious thermodynamics

1. O’Manique, John. (1969). Energy in Evolution – Teilhard’s Physics of the Future. New York: Humanities Press.
2. Teilhard, Pierre de Chardin. (1962). Human Energy. New York: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
3. Teilhard, Pierre de Chardin. (1976). Activation of Energy. New York: Harvest Books.
4. Peck, M. Scott. (1978). The Road Less Traveled, (pgs. 263-77: The Miracle of Evolution, The Alpha and the Omega, Entropy and Original Sin). New York: Simon & Schuster.
5. Williams, Emmet L. (1981). Thermodynamics and the Development of Order. Creation Research Society.
6. Rifkin, Jeremy. (1989). Entropy - Into the Greenhouse World (formerly published as Entropy: a New World View, 1981). New York: Bantam Books.
7. Sanford, J.C. (2005). Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome - the Genome is Degenerating. Lima, New York: Ivan Press.

Miscellaneous

1. Morowitz, Harold J. (1992). The Thermodynamics of Pizza. Rutgers University Press.

Juvenile thermodynamics

1. Moran, Jeffrey B. (2001). How Do We Know the Laws of Thermodynamics (ages 9-12). The Rosen Publishing Group.
   
2. McCarthy, Rose. (2005). The Laws of Thermodynamics: Understanding Heat and Energy Transfers. The Rosen Publishing Group.
   

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See also
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● Thims' mate selection book collection (140+)

References
1. (a) By comparison, for example, Italian nuclear engineer, mechanical engineer, and thermodynamicist Gian Paolo Beretta (BS nuclear engineering, MS mechanical engineering, PhD mechanical engineering), who runs QuantumThermodynamics.org, started in 2006, has about 50-60 thermodynamics books. [Source: email communications between Thims and Paolo-Beretta in Oct-Nov of 2006.]
(b) American chemical engineer and nuclear engineer (BS chemical engineering, MS chemical engineering, ME chemical engineering, ME nuclear engineering, PhD chemical engineering) James Lawler, who runs the NexialInstitute.com, has a collection of over 4,000+ books.
(c) Source: email communications between Thims and Lawler in May of 2006.
2. Note: if you know of other good related human thermodynamics books, please leave Thims a note in either the "books to buy" (page) or thread section below.
3. Commenter (geological thermodynamicist) completed their MS and PhD theses on new theorems in equilibrium thermodynamics and applied these to igneous and metamorphic petrology.

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