Saturday, March 12, 2011

Agrifood Bibiliography


Markley, K. and D. Hilchey. 1998. Adding Value for Sustainability: A Guidebook for Cooperative Extension Agents and Other Agricultural Professionals. Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA). Milheim, PA, USA.

Northeast Regional Agricultural Engineering Service (N RAES). 1991. Farming Alternatives: A Guide to Evaluating the Feasibility of New Farm-Based Enterprises. NRAES. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY, USA.


Further Reading



Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies by Ernesto Sirolli is an inspiring look at breathing new life into a rural economy through value-added processing. Amazon.com link to purchase: <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0865713979/agroforestercom/>

Backyard Market Gardening: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling What You Grow by Andy W. Lee  treats virtually every aspect of the business, from planning crops to running a farm stand and a mail-order operation. Amazon.com link to purchase: <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0962464805/agroforestercom/>

The Cultivated Plants of the Tropics and Subtropics by Sigmund Rehm and Gustav Espig covers cultivation, economic value, processing, and utilization of over 1,000 plants. Amazon.com link to purchase: <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=3823611690/agroforestercom/>

Acorn bibliography


Bibliography

“Whole Foods Market: Health Info”, Wholefoodsmarket.com,
1 April 2003, http://www.wholefoods.com/cgi-bin/print10pt.cgi?url=/healthinfo/wholehealth/fd_acornsquash.html

499 Bibliography


Works Cited



Aristotle.  Poetics.  Trans. Gerald F. Else.  Michigan: Ann Arbor Paperbacks, 1970.

Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy.  Trans. Richard Green.  New York:
            Macmillan/Library of Liberal Arts, 1962.

Chance, Jane.  The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power. New York: Twayne, 1992.

----------.  Tolkien’s Art.  Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2001.

Gasque, Thomas J.  “Tolkien: The Monsters and the Critters”, in Tolkien and the Critics. 
            Isaacs, Neil D. & Zimbardo, Rose A., eds.  Notre Dame: University of Notre
            Dame Press, 1968.  pp. 151-64

Grant, Patrick.  “Tolkien: Archetype and Word”, in Crosscurrents, (internet source)

Jung, Carl.  “Aion: Phenomenology of the Self”, in The Portable Jung.  Joseph Campbell, ed.
            New York: Viking Penguin, 1971.  pp.139-63

Meyer Spacks, Patricia.  “Power and Meaning in The Lord of the Rings”, in
Tolkien and the Critics.  Isaacs, Neil D. & Zimbardo, Rose A., eds.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968.  pp. 81-100

Shakespeare, William.  King Lear, in The Norton Shakespeare. Stephen Greenblatt, ed.
            New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997.  pp. 2307-2553

----------.  Twelfth Night, in (ibidem).  pp. 1761-1821

Shippey, Tom.  J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century.  London, HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000.



Tolkien, John Ronald Ruel.  Letters. Humphrey Carpenter, ed. London: George Allen, 1981.

----------.  “On Fairy Stories”, in Tree and Leaf.  London: Grafton, 1992.  pp. 9-73

----------.  The Hobbit.  London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1995.

----------.  The Lord of the Rings.   London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1991. 

4 QSM 754 Bibliography v8


1.      Bibliography
The following books and reference articles should provide the student with the opportunity to further explore the body of knowledge to a depth beyond that presented during the course.
  
Reference
Comments

Box, George E.P., William G. Hunter, and J. Stuart Hunter. Statistics for Experimenters. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1978.

Classic text for complete summary of statistical testing techniques.

Breyfogle, Forrest W. Implementing Six Sigma. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999
Complete reference for advanced Six Sigma statistical tools.  Uses Minitab for examples.

Brown, Mark Graham. Keeping Score. New York: Quality Resources, 1996.

Concise reference for designing a balanced scorecard metric system.
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1995.

Comprehensive picture of how research papers are created.
Goldratt, Eliyahu M. The Goal. Great Barrington: North River Press, 1992.
Clear explanation of concepts of Theory of Constraints in a novel reading format.

Grant, Eugene L.and Richard S. Leavenworth. Statistical Quality Control. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988.

Classic text for Control Charting techniques.
Hicks, Charles R. Fundamental Concepts in the Design of Experiments. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Classic book on Design of Experiments for the advanced practitioner.
Huff, Darrell. How to Lie with Statistics. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1954.
Good reference for graphical bias and data misrepresentation.  Dated examples but points are still valid.

Juran, J.M. and Frank M. Gryna. Quality Planning and Analysis. New York. McGraw-Hill, 1993.

Excellent concise summary of statistical tools for analyzing data.
Juran's Quality Control Handbook. Ed. J. M. Juran. New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1988.

Comprehensive reference in all aspects of Quality Tools.
Harry, Mikel J. The Vision of Six Sigma. Phoenix: Sigma Publishing Company, 1994.

Presentation slides used for training by Mikel Harry.
Kiemele, Mark J. Basic Statistics. Colorado Springs: Air Academy Press, 1993.

Excellent general statistics text with a large number of case studies.
Kume, Hitoshi. Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement. Tokyo: The Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship, 1985.

Excellent concise summary of basic statistical tools and techniques.
Launsby, Robert G. Straight Talk on Designing Experiments. Colorado Springs: Launsby Consulting, 1995.

Covers design of experiments techniques including Taguchi. Uses proprietary software.
Luftig, Jeffrey and Victoria S. Jordan. Design of Experiments in Quality Engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Design of Experiments
Maguire, Miles. "Cowboy Quality." Quality Progress October 1999: 27-34.

Interview with Mikel Harry on Six Sigma
Monden, Yashuhiro. Toyota Production System. Atlanta: Industrial Engineering and Management Press, 1983.

Basic concepts in Lean Manufacturing techniques developed at Toyota.
Neave, Henry R. The Deming Dimension. Knoxville: SPC Press, 1990.
Clear summary of the teachings of W. Edwards Deming including detail on red bead and funnel experiments.

Ryan, Thomas P. Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000.
Basic concepts in Statistics & Probability, Hypothesis Testing, Control Charting and Design of Experiments.




Schmidt, Stephen R. Understanding Industrial Designed Experiments. Colorado Springs: Air Academy Press, 1998.

Design of Experiments and a large number of case studies
Swartz, James B. The Hunters and the Hunted. Portland: Productivity Press, 1994.
Teaches a number of Lean Enterprise concepts in an easy reading story format.

The Memory Jogger. Methuen: Goal/QPC, 1988.
Pocket guide to basic 7 tools.

Wheeler, Donald J. and David S. Chambers. Understanding Statistical Process Control. Knoxville: SPC Press, 1992.

Good basic text for Control Charting.
Wheeler, Donald J. Understanding Variation. Knoxville: SPC Press, 1992.

Lays excellent groundwork for Control Chart fundamentals.
Womack, James P. and Daniel T. Jones. Lean Thinking. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996

Case studies for lean principles and techniques
Womack, James P. The Machine that Changed the World. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991.
Story of the rise of Lean Production techniques in the automotive industry.

2nd Bibliography Library




Jones, Gwyn. A History of the Vikings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.



Wooding, Jonathan. The Vikings. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.



Odijk, Pamela. The Vikings. Englewood Cliffs: Silver Burdett Press, 1990.




Pearson, Ann. The Vikings. New York: Reed International Books Ltd, 1993.




Graham-Campbell, James, et al. The Viking World. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1980.





Clare, John D., ed. The Vikings. New York: Random Century Publishing Group Limited, 1992.




Gibson, Micheal. The Vikings. Morristown: Silver Burdett Company, 1985.





Hughes, Jill. Vikings. New York: Gloucester Press, 1984.




Martell, Hazel. The Vikings. New York: Warwick Press, 1986.




Madsen, O. The Vikings. Barcelona: Editions Minerva, 1976.





Wilson, David M. The Vikings and Their Origins. New York: A&W Publishers, Inc., 1980.



Windrow, Martin. The Vikings Warrior. London: Franklin Watts Limited, 1984.




What Life Was Like When Longships Sailed. Alexandria: Time-Life Books, 1998.




impson, Jacqueline. Everyday Life in the Viking Age. New York: Putnam, 1967.




Simpson, Jacqueline. The Viking World. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980.




Magnusson, Magnus. Vikings!. New York: Elsevier-Dutton Publishing Co, Inc., 1980.



Simon, Charnan. Leif Eriksson and the Vikings. Chicago: Children’s Press, 1991.