THE LIBRARY
THE CIVITAS PRIME REFERENCE COLLECTION
The working bibliography of the Laks Institute — organized by discipline, with each section introducing how the texts connect to the division's research programmes. These are not decorative shelves. Every volume is cited, assigned, or referenced in coursework. Start with the discipline most relevant to your work; the Curriculum page maps reading paths through the collection.
Quantum field theory, plasma dynamics, gravitational physics, and thermodynamics. The theoretical foundations for Stellar Furnace fusion physics, Highfield Magnetics superconductor engineering, and Vapor Vacuum quantum metrology. Start with Chen (plasma) or Wald (GR) depending on your programme.
Fundamentals of Photonics Part I: Optics — Saleh, Bahaa & Teich, Malvin (3rd Ed) ISBN 9781119506874
Fundamentals of Photonics Part II: Photonics — Saleh, Bahaa & Teich, Malvin (3rd Ed) ISBN 9781119506904
Handbook of Laser Technology and Applications Vol. 1 — Webb, Colin E. & Jones, Julian D.C. (eds.) ISBN 9780750308076
Handbook of Laser Technology and Applications Vol. 2 — Webb, Colin E. & Jones, Julian D.C. (eds.) ISBN 9780750306843
Quantum Field Theory — Itzykson, Claude & Zuber, Jean-Bernard ISBN 9780486445687
Quantum Fields in Curved Space — Birrell, N.D. & Davies, P.C.W. ISBN 9780521278584
General Relativity — Wald, Robert M. ISBN 9780226870335
Spacetime and Geometry — Carroll, Sean ISBN 9780805387322
Modern Quantum Mechanics — Sakurai, J.J. & Napolitano, Jim (2nd Ed) ISBN 9780805382914
The Future of Spacetime — Thorne, Kip et al. ISBN 9780393020229
Black Holes & Time Warps — Thorne, Kip S. ISBN 9780393312768
The Science of Interstellar — Thorne, Kip ISBN 9780393351378
Islands in the Sky — Schmidt, Stanley & Zubrin, Robert (eds.) ISBN 9780471135006
The Black Hole War — Susskind, Leonard ISBN 9780316016421
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time — Hawking, Stephen & Ellis, G.F.R. ISBN 9780521099066
Gravitation — Misner, Charles W., Thorne, Kip S. & Wheeler, John A. ISBN 9780691177793
Wormholes, Warp Drives and Energy Conditions — Lobo, Francisco (ed.) ISBN 9783319551821
Lorentzian Wormholes: From Einstein to Hawking — Visser, Matt ISBN 9781563966538
Quantum Gravity — Rovelli, Carlo ISBN 9780521715966
Fundamentals of Magnonics — Rezende, Sergio M. ISBN 9783030413163
Relativity — Einstein, Albert ISBN 9780486600819
Physics and Philosophy — Heisenberg, Werner ISBN 9780061209192
Philosophy of Physics — Planck, Max ISBN 9780486291963
Sun in a Bottle — Seife, Charles ISBN 9780670020645
Waves in Plasmas — Stix, Thomas H. ISBN 9780883188590
Principles of Plasma Diagnostics — Hutchinson, I.H. (2nd Ed) ISBN 9780521675741
Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy — Freidberg, Jeffrey P. ISBN 9780521733175
Introduction to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion — Chen, Francis F. (3rd Ed) ISBN 9783319223087
Fusion Energy Conversion — Miley, George H. ISBN 9780894484001
The Science and Technology of Particle Accelerators — Appleby, Burt, Clarke & Owen (1st Ed) ISBN 9781138499874
Physics of Solar Cells — Würfel, Peter & Würfel, Uli (3rd Ed) ISBN 9783527413126
Physics of Semiconductor Devices — Sze, S.M., Li, Yiming & Ng, Kwok K. (4th Ed) ISBN 9781119300410
Kittel's Introduction to Solid State Physics — Kittel, Charles (9th Ed) ISBN 9781119454168
Knowledge Encyclopedia: Space — DK ISBN 9781465420374
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out — Feynman, Richard P. ISBN 9780465023950
The Problem of Increasing Human Energy — Tesla, Nikola ISBN 9781515404736
Nikola Tesla: Colorado Springs Notes, 1899–1900 — Tesla, Nikola ISBN 9788671562942
Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering — Shultis, J. Kenneth & Faw, Richard E. (3rd Ed) ISBN 9781498769297
Engineering is philosophy made physical. This collection covers the full disciplinary stack required to build the machines described across every Laks division — from pulsed-power systems and microwave tubes to orbital mechanics, robotics, and semiconductor fabrication.
Effects of Directed Energy Weapons — Nielsen, Philip E. ISBN 9781780399225
Gyrotrons — Kartikeyan, M.V., Borie, E. & Thumm, M. ISBN 9783540258988
Microwave Tubes — Gilmour, A.S. ISBN 9780890060940
Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Vacuum Electron Devices — Gilmour, A.S. ISBN 9781630813482
Pulsed Power Systems — Bluhm, Hansjoachim ISBN 9783540261834
J.C. Martin on Pulsed Power — Martin, J.C., Guenther, A.H. & Kristiansen, M. (eds.) ISBN 9780306456633
Radio Systems Engineering — Ellingson, Steven W. ISBN 9781107068285
High Power Microwaves — Benford, James et al. (3rd Ed) ISBN 9781498759830
Microwave Engineering — Pozar, David M. (4th Ed) ISBN 9780470631553
Antenna Theory and Design — Stutzman, Warren L. & Thiele, Gary A. (3rd Ed) ISBN 9780470576649
Wireless Communications — Rappaport, Theodore S. (2nd Ed) ISBN 9780130422323
Waveguide Handbook — Marcuvitz, N. ISBN 9780863410581
Frontiers of Propulsion Science — Millis, Marc G. & Davis, Eric W. (eds.) ISBN 9781563479564
Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students — Curtis, Howard D. (4th Ed) ISBN 9780081021750
Introduction to Flight — Anderson, John D. & Bowden, Mary L. (9th Ed) ISBN 9781260596953
The Lunar Base Handbook — Eckart, Peter (2nd Ed) ISBN 9780073294506
Spaceflight Life Support and Biospherics — Eckart, Peter ISBN 9780792339151
Spacecraft Systems Engineering — Fortescue, Peter et al. (eds.) (4th Ed) ISBN 9780470750124
Hypersonic and High-Temperature Gas Dynamics — Anderson, John D. Jr. (3rd Ed) ISBN 9781624105142
Turbomachinery — Gambini, Marco & Vellini, Maurizio ISBN 9783319954387
Jet Propulsion — Cumpsty, Nicholas & Heyes, Andrew (3rd Ed) ISBN 9781107511668
Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook — Boyce, Meherwan P. (4th Ed) ISBN 9780123838421
Fundamentals of Semiconductor Manufacturing and Process Control — May, Gary S. & Spanos, Costas J. ISBN 9780471784067
Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials — Kalpakjian, Serope & Schmid, Steven R. (6th Ed) ISBN 9780134290553
Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing — Groover, Mikell P. (5th Ed) ISBN 9780134605463
Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing — Groover, Mikell P. (5th Ed) ISBN 9781119128694
Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly — Boothroyd, Geoffrey, Dewhurst, Peter & Knight, Winston (3rd Ed) ISBN 9781420089271
Factory Physics — Hopp, Wallace J. & Spearman, Mark L. (3rd Ed) ISBN 9781577667391
Making Things Move — Roberts, Dustyn ISBN 9780071741682
Modern Robotics — Lynch, Kevin M. & Park, Frank C. ISBN 9781107156302
Microgrids: Architectures and Control — Hatziargyriou, Nikos (ed.) ISBN 9781118720684
High Voltage Engineering: Fundamentals — Kuffel, E., Zaengl, W.S. & Kuffel, J. (2nd Ed) ISBN 9780750636346
Power System Analysis — Grainger, John J. & Stevenson, William D. ISBN 9780070612938
Fundamentals of Electric Circuits — Alexander, Charles & Sadiku, Matthew (6th Ed) ISBN 9780078028229
Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems — Franklin, Gene F., Powell, J. David & Emami-Naeini, Abbas (8th Ed) ISBN 9780134685717
Feedback Systems — Åström, Karl J. & Murray, Richard M. (2nd Ed) ISBN 9780691193984
Communication Systems — Haykin, Simon & Moher, Michael ISBN 9780471697909
Signals, Systems, and Signal Processing — Vaidyanathan, P.P. ISBN 9780136175476
ARRL Ham Radio License Manual — ARRL (4th Ed) ISBN 9781625950826
The Baofeng Radio Bible — Hawke, Eliot J. ISBN 9798745274428
Piezoelectricity Vol. 1 — Cady, W.G. ISBN 9780486674483
Piezoelectricity Vol. 2 — Cady, W.G. ISBN 9780486674490
Handbook of Modern Sensors — Fraden, Jacob (4th Ed) ISBN 9781441964656
Sensor Technology Handbook — Wilson, Jon S. (ed.) ISBN 9780750677295
Introduction to Tribology — Bhushan, Bharat (2nd Ed) ISBN 9781119944539
Vacuum Technology and Applications — Hucknall, D.J. ISBN 9780750617161
Handbook of Vacuum Technology — Jousten, Karl (ed.) (2nd Ed) ISBN 9783527411825
Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction — Callister, William D. Jr. & Rethwisch, David G. (10th Ed) ISBN 9781119405498
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design — Budynas, Richard G. & Nisbett, J. Keith (11th Ed) ISBN 9781260407228
Notes on CFD: General Principles — Greenshields, Christopher & Weller, Henry ISBN 9781999951702
An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics — Versteeg, H.K. & Malalasekera, W. (2nd Ed) ISBN 9780131274983
An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics — Batchelor, G.K. ISBN 9780521663960
Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics — Moran, Michael J. et al. (9th Ed) ISBN 9781119393085
Arduino-Based Introduction to Mechatronics — Jouaneh, Musa ISBN 9780190648497
Mechatronics — Bolton, W. (5th Ed) ISBN 9781138828148
Electronics for Kids — Dahl, Øyvind Nydal ISBN 9781593276539
Practical Electronics for Inventors — Scherz, Paul & Monk, Simon (4th Ed) ISBN 9781259587542
Water and Wastewater Engineering — Davis, Mackenzie L. ISBN 9780071713849
Technology without philosophy is a weapon without a wielder. These volumes span the Pre-Socratics through Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the classical Eastern traditions — the intellectual framework that shapes the purpose behind every Laks initiative.
The Japanese Way of Tea — Sen Sōshitsu XV ISBN 9780824817466
Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings — Zhuangzi (Ziporyn, Brook trans.) ISBN 9780872209114
The Republic — Plato (Lee, trans.) ISBN 9780140455113
Being and Time — Heidegger, Martin ISBN 9780061575594
Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Nietzsche, Friedrich ISBN 9780140441185
Meditations — Aurelius, Marcus (Hays, trans.) ISBN 9780812968255
Letters from a Stoic — Seneca (Campbell, trans.) ISBN 9780140442106
Hegel's Philosophy of Mind — Hegel, G.W.F. ISBN 9780199568574
The Blue Cliff Record — Cleary, Thomas & Cleary, J.C. ISBN 9781570629211
Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu (Addiss & Lombardo, trans.) ISBN 9780872205567
Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu (Mitchell, trans.) ISBN 9780060812454
Essays in Idleness and Hojoki — Kenkō & Chōmei (Keene, trans.) ISBN 9780140443455
The Complete I Ching — Huang, Alfred ISBN 9781594771491
The First and Last Freedom — Krishnamurti, J. ISBN 9780060648312
The Unfettered Mind — Takuan Soho (Wilson, trans.) ISBN 9781590308172
In Praise of Shadows — Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō ISBN 9780918172020
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind — Suzuki, Shunryu ISBN 9781590308493
Hagakure — Yamamoto Tsunetomo (Wilson, trans.) ISBN 9781590309858
Ideals of the East — Okakura, Kakuzo ISBN 9780486439037
Zen and Japanese Culture — Suzuki, D.T. ISBN 9780691017709
The Unknown Craftsman — Yanagi, Soetsu ISBN 9784770017963
The Gateless Gate — Yamada, Koun ISBN 9780861713509
The Heshang Gong Commentary on Lao Zi's Dao De Jing — Reid, Dan G. (trans.) ISBN 9781438459776
The Way of Zen — Watts, Alan ISBN 9780375705106
The Wisdom of Insecurity — Watts, Alan ISBN 9780307741202
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are — Watts, Alan ISBN 9780679723004
Rumi: The Book of Love — Barks, Coleman (trans.) ISBN 9780062511218
The Analects — Confucius (Lau, trans.) ISBN 9780140443484
The Japanese Tea Ceremony — Sadler, A.L. ISBN 9784805310182
Tao: The Watercourse Way — Watts, Alan ISBN 9780394733111
The Art of War — Sun Tzu (Giles, trans.) ISBN 9781599869773
The Book of Tea — Okakura, Kakuzo ISBN 9784805310434
The engineer who does not study history is condemned to reinvent catastrophe. This shelf documents civilizations, wars, intelligence operations, and the biographies of those who bent the arc of the world — from antiquity to the nuclear age.
SPQR — Beard, Mary ISBN 9780871404237
A History of Venice — Norwich, John Julius ISBN 9780679721970
A History of Florence — Najemy, John M. ISBN 9781405189439
The Tycoons — Morris, Charles R. ISBN 9780805081343
Andrew Carnegie — Nasaw, David ISBN 9780143112440
The Richest Man Who Ever Lived — Steinmetz, Greg ISBN 9781451688559
Routines and Orgies — Risso-Gill, Isabelle ISBN 9780773543195
The Idea Factory — Gertner, Jon ISBN 9780143122791
Skunk Works — Rich, Ben R. ISBN 9780316743006
From Third World to First — Lee Kuan Yew ISBN 9780060957735
Under the Black Flag — Cordingly, David ISBN 9780156006538
No Guts No Glory: The Story of Adolf Lundin — Eriksson, Robert ISBN 9789163972867
The House of Morgan — Chernow, Ron ISBN 9780802138491
Titan — Chernow, Ron ISBN 9781400077861
The First Tycoon — Stiles, T.J. ISBN 9780375415425
The House of Rothschild Vol. 1 — Ferguson, Niall ISBN 9780140286625
The House of Rothschild Vol. 2 — Ferguson, Niall ISBN 9780140286632
The Medici — Strathern, Paul ISBN 9780099416876
Focus: The ASML Way — Hijink, Marc ISBN 9789463190855
My Inventions — Tesla, Nikola ISBN 9781603864053
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World — Winchester, Simon ISBN 9780008241797
Capital is compressed human time. These texts cover financial theory, market mechanics, monetary policy, and the economic architecture required to fund a vertically integrated technological civilization.
Thinking Strategically — Dixit, Avinash & Nalebuff, Barry ISBN 9780393310351
Mining Valuation Handbook — Rudenno, Victor (4th Ed) ISBN 9780730375289
The Dao of Capital — Spitznagel, Mark ISBN 9781118416495
The Outsiders — Thorndike, William N. ISBN 9781422162675
Soros on Soros — Soros, George ISBN 9780471119777
Advanced Portfolio Management — Paleologo, Giuseppe A. ISBN 9781119789796
The Mathematics of Money Management — Vince, Ralph ISBN 9780471547389
Active Portfolio Management — Grinold, Richard C. & Kahn, Ronald N. (2nd Ed) ISBN 9780070248823
Quality Investing — Cunningham, Lawrence A. et al. ISBN 9780857196033
The fringe is where the next paradigm hides. This collection examines unidentified aerial phenomena, suppressed physics, esoteric traditions, and anomalous research that mainstream institutions refuse to fund — but cannot afford to ignore.
Thanosis — Jorjani, Jason Reza ISBN 9781912975297
Iranian Leviathan — Jorjani, Jason Reza ISBN 9781912975235
Closer Encounters — Jorjani, Jason Reza ISBN 9781912975280
Prometheus and Atlas — Jorjani, Jason Reza ISBN 9781912975006
Satanaeon — Jorjani, Jason Reza ISBN 9781917646003
Psychotron — Jorjani, Jason Reza ISBN 9781915755278
Exogenesis: Hybrid Humans — Fenton, Bruce & Daniella ISBN 9781591433545
Alcheringa — Barrow, Valerie J. ISBN 9781922403056
The Truth About the Wunderwaffe — Witkowski, Igor ISBN 9780975590409
Saucers, Swastikas and Psyops — Farrell, Joseph P. ISBN 9781935487210
Critical Mass — Hydrick, C. Ryan ISBN 9780972805407
Unholy Alliance — Levenda, Peter ISBN 9780826417923
The Hunt for Zero Point — Cook, Nick ISBN 9780767906975
The Day After Roswell — Corso, Philip J. ISBN 9780671017569
Alien Agendas — Dolan, Richard ISBN 9798557741590
UFOs and the National Security State — Dolan, Richard ISBN 9781571743510
The Coming Race — Bulwer-Lytton, Edward ISBN 9781544800455
Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret — Vallée, Jacques & Harris, Paola Leopizzi (2nd Ed) ISBN 9781949949001
A History of USOs Vol. 1 — Dolan, Richard ISBN 9798992602319
Yuga Shift — Misra, Bibhu Dev ISBN 9781591434498
Varieties of Anomalous Experience — Cardeña, Etzel, Lynn, Steven J. & Krippner, Stanley (2nd Ed) ISBN 9781433810367
Mind Sight — McNamara, Patrick ISBN 9780979267666
Children Who Remember Previous Lives — Stevenson, Ian ISBN 9780813921297
The PK Man — Mishlove, Jeffrey ISBN 9780835607933
Remote Viewing Secrets — McMoneagle, Joseph ISBN 9781571741875
Far Journeys — Monroe, Robert A. ISBN 9780385231893
Initiation Into Hermetics — Bardon, Franz ISBN 9780941786065
The Complete Ascension Manual — Stone, Joshua David ISBN 9780929385556
The Serpent Power — Avalon, Arthur (Woodroffe, John) ISBN 9780486230580
Psychic Literacy — Swann, Ingo ISBN 9781949214475
Penetration — Swann, Ingo ISBN 9780926524019
Everybody's Guide to Natural ESP — Swann, Ingo ISBN 9781949214834
The Crowley Tarot — Akron & Banzhaf, Hajo ISBN 9780880797832
The Tibetan Book of the Dead — Coleman, Graham (ed.) ISBN 9780670857111
Thomas Troward Complete Collection: Six Books — Troward, Thomas ISBN 9781515412618
Every system ultimately interfaces with a human mind. These volumes cover persuasion, propaganda, cognitive bias, and the mechanics of influence — essential reading for anyone designing products, institutions, or civilizations.
The Big Con — Maurer, David W. ISBN 9780385495387
How to Win Friends and Influence People — Carnegie, Dale ISBN 9780671027032
Never Split the Difference — Voss, Chris ISBN 9780062407801
Pre-Suasion — Cialdini, Robert ISBN 9781501109799
Influence — Cialdini, Robert B. ISBN 9780061241895
Mastery — Greene, Robert ISBN 9780670024810
The 48 Laws of Power — Greene, Robert ISBN 9780140280197
Mind Control: The Ancient Art of Psychological Warfare — Lung, Haha & Prowant, Christopher B. ISBN 9780806532264
Mind Manipulation: Ancient and Modern Ninja Techniques — Lung, Haha & Prowant, Christopher B. ISBN 9780806531106
The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition — Hollins, Peter ISBN 9781986204613
Strategy is the martial art of the mind. These texts span classical Eastern combat philosophy and modern tactical doctrine.
Essence of Ninjutsu — Hatsumi, Masaaki ISBN 9780809247240
Tai Chi Classics — Liao, Waysun (trans.) ISBN 9781570629099
Analysis of Shaolin Chin Na — Yang Jwing-Ming, Dr. (2nd Ed) ISBN 9781594390999
Comprehensive Applications of Shaolin Chin Na — Yang Jwing-Ming, Dr. ISBN 9780940871366
The Book of Five Rings — Miyamoto Musashi (Wilson, trans.) ISBN 9781590302484
Samurai Fitness — Striedel, Dalton ISBN 9780804840224
The silicon layer. These references cover machine learning fundamentals and computational theory — the substrate on which Aetheric Sciences and Brainwave Systems build their cognitive architectures.
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information — Nielsen, Michael & Chuang, Isaac ISBN 9781107002173
Getting Started with FPGAs — Merrick, Russell ISBN 9781718500556
Matter at the molecular scale. The chemistry shelf underpins the feedstock science of Matter Kitchen, the polymer engineering of Polymer Press, and the pharmaceutical synthesis pathways of Cellular Foundry.
Electrochemical Systems — Newman, John & Thomas-Alyea, Karen E. (3rd Ed) ISBN 9780471477563
Systematic methodologies for long-range forecasting and civilizational trajectory analysis.
Foundations of Futures Studies Vol. 1 — Bell, Wendell ISBN 9781560002567
Foundations of Futures Studies Vol. 2 — Bell, Wendell ISBN 9781560002574
Extraction science and resource economics — the raw inputs that precede every alloy, every reactor, every structure.
Introduction to Mineral Exploration — Moon, Charles J. et al. (eds.) (2nd Ed) ISBN 9781405100854
Mineral Resources, Economics and the Environment — Kesler, Stephen E. ISBN 9780023624551
Pattern, form, and notation — the aesthetics that shape how civilizations think, build, and grow.
A Pattern Language — Alexander, Christopher et al. ISBN 9780195019193
Classic Bonsai of Japan — Nippon Bonsai Association ISBN 9780870118043
Bonsai — Koreshoff, Deborah R. ISBN 9780207168130
The Way of Chinese Characters — Wu, Jianing ISBN 9780804833578
Reading and Writing Chinese — McNaughton, William & Li, Ying (3rd Ed) ISBN 9780804837170
Allegory that illuminates engineering reality.
O Alquimista — Coelho, Paulo ISBN 9780062315007
Seveneves — Stephenson, Neal ISBN 9780062190376