The following list of suggested reading materials is focused on books that will increase the reader's awareness of the relationship of energy, the economy, and the quality of life. The materials include books published between 1992 and the present. None of the materials are politically based or are intended to espouse a cause. But taken collectively, should serve to educate the reader on economic principles and the global energy resource situation as they will impact our future engineering activities.

Title	Author	Publisher
The Prize	Daniel Yergin	Simon & Schuster
The Commanding Heights	Daniel Yergin & Joseph Stanislaw	Simon & Schuster
Hubbert's Peak	Kenneth S. Deffeyes	Princeton University Press
Crude Awakenings	Steven A. Yetiv	Cornell University Press
Maestro	Bob Woodward	Simon & Schuster
The World is Flat	Thomas L. Friedman	Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Twilight in the Desert	Matthew R. Simmons	Wiley
Beyond Oil	Kenneth S. Deffeyes	Hill & Wang, New York