In human thermodynamics education, thermodynamics textbooks with humanities applications, refers to thermodynamics textbooks that include applications in the humanities, i.e. human thermodynamics material, in one of its 40+ branches, in their content; known examples are listed below:

List
The following is a listing of known thermodynamics (predominately) textbooks, and to a lesser extent thermal physics, statistical mechanics (or statistical thermodynamics), and or chemistry (or physical chemistry) textbooks, that include "thermodynamics applied to the humanities" material:

Year
Textbook
Human thermodynamics branch
References




1931 A Treatise on Heat (Saha) 120px newA Treatise on Heat: Including Kinetic Theory of Matter, Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, and Thermal Ionisation

Meghnad Saha (1893-1956)
Indian astrophysicist (see: Indian school)
Saha distribution● Explained the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of molecular velocities according to kinetic theory in terms of the wealth distributions in society.


[10]
1964Bazarov thermodynamics 250pxThermodynamics

Ivan Bazarov (1916-2005)
Russian physicist
Heat death argument for the existence of god (Friedrich Engels)
● Heat death argument against the existence of god (Bazarov)
● Universal origins
[1]
1973Thermodynamics (van Wylen)Fundamentals of Classical Thermodynamics

Gordon van Wylen (1920-)
American mechanical engineer
Richard Sonntag (1933-2010)
American mechanical engineer
Philosophical thermodynamics
● Argument for/belief in the existence of God/Creationism
● Universal origins (low entropy state)/Eschatology
Destiny of humans (second law)
[2]
1980Foundations of College Chemistry (1980)Foundations of College Chemistry

Daniel Barker Murphy (1928-)
Viateur Rousseau (1914-2000)
Frederick Rossini ("Chemical Thermodynamics in the Real World", 1971); the chemical thermodynamic nature of freedom vs security, government (government thermodynamics), politics (political thermodynamics).
Rossini debate (2006)
[7]
1999Chemical and Process Thermodynamics (1999)Chemical and Process Thermodynamics

Benjamin Kyle (1927-)
American chemical engineer
Two cultures (C.P. Snow)
● Universal origins/Eschatology/Heat death (Friedrich Engels, Ivan Bazarov)
Religious thermodynamics (William Inge, Pope Pius XII, Pierre Teilhard)
Animate thermodynamics (life, origin of life; defunct theory of life)
Social thermodynamics/Anthropological thermodynamics (Claude Levi-Strauss)
History thermodynamics (Henry Adams)
Economic thermodynamics (Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen)
Ecological economics (Herman Daly, Jeremy Rifkin)
Literature thermodynamics (John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Saul Bellow, Stanley Elkin, Norman Mailer, Walker Percy, Thomas Pynchon, John Updike)
Art thermodynamics (Rudolf Arnheim)
Philosophical thermodynamics (Kyle)
Psychological thermodynamics (Sigmund Freud)
[3]
1999
thru
2010
Thermodynamics an Engineering Approach (2006) (s)Thermodynamics an Engineering Approach

Yunus Cengel (1955-)
Turkey mechanical engineer
Michael Boles (1943-)
American mechanical engineer
Economic thermodynamics (Robert Ayres)
Human thermodynamics (human performance/efficiency in daily existence, learning (low-entropy learning), work place friction, human friction, social friction (entropy generation), etc.)
War thermodynamics

See main: Cengel-Boles human thermodynamics
[4]
2004Heterogeneous Kinetics (2004)Heterogeneous Kinetics: Theory of Ziegler-Natta-Kaminsky (chapter 2: Chemical Thermodynamics)

Tominaga Keii (1920-2009)
Japanese chemical engineer
Chemical Affinity in 1806
Human chemical thermodynamics: Elective Affinities; human elective affinity; human chemical reaction, Goethe's affinity table, Goethe's human chemistry (Johann Goethe)
[6]
2003
thru
2010
Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (2003) 120pxFundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics

Michael Moran (c.1950-)
American mechanical engineer
Howard Shapiro (c.1947-)
American mechanical engineer
● A few economics problems and life and second law paradox problems;
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1971), Erwin Schrodinger (1944), Ilya Prigogine (1971-2003), and Eric Schneider (2005)
[13]
2010Thermodynamics (Kreuzer and Tamblyn) (s)Thermodynamics

Hans Kreuzer (c.1945-)
Canadian atmospheric physicist
Isaac Tamblyn (c.1983-)
Canadian physicist
Economic thermodynamics (Wayne Saslow)[5]
2010 Statistical and Thermal PhysicsStatistical and Thermal Physics: With Computer Applications

Harvey Gould (c.1941-)
American physicist
Jan Tobochnik (1958-)
American natural scientist and physicist
● Includes applications of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to areas such as social networks and finance (Elliott Montroll, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Cesar Hildalgo, Jean-Phillippe Bouchard, Marc Potters, Nassim Taleb, etc.)
● Ising model to social behavior (social Ising model) (Dietrich Stauffer)
[12]
2011Advanced Engineering ThermodynamicsAdvanced Engineering Thermodynamics

Kalyan Annamalai
Carlos Silva (co-author, formula chapter)
Puri Ishwar
Milind Jog
Human molecular formula (Libb Thims) [8]

Human molecule (2011)
2012 Engineering Thermodynamics and 21st Century Energy ProblemsEngineering Thermodynamics and 21st Century Energy Problems

Donna Riley
HumanThermodynamics.com (Libb Thims)
Entropy as a social construct (sociological thermodynamics)
● Entropy’s philosophical implications (philosophical thermodynamics)
● Entropy and time (arrow of time)
● Entropy in learning, libraries, rooms, and armies (Cengel-Boles human thermodynamics)
[9]
2014A Conceptual Guide to Thermodynamics (2014)A Conceptual Guide to Thermodynamics

Bill Poirier
Henry Adams
Literature thermodynamics | Bruce Clarke

2015/16CTAH cover 120pxChemical Thermodynamics: with Applications in the Humanities

Libb Thims (c.1975-)
American electrochemical engineer
(see: human chemical thermodynamics)
● Full top to bottom step-by-step derivation of chemical thermodynamics (ParmenidesOtto GuerickeSadi CarnotRudolf ClausiusWillard GibbsGilbert LewisEdward GuggenheimFritz Lipmann), with focus on application to the various fields of the humanities (Johann GoetheWilliam RankineLawrence HendersonFrederick RossiniMirza Beg → modern human free energy theorists).[11]


References
1. Bazarov, Ivan P. (1964). Thermodynamics (Engels, 5+ pgs). Pergamon.
2. (a) Wylen, Gordon and Sonntag, Richard. (1973). Fundamentals of Classical Thermodynamics (section: 7.16: Some General Comments Regarding Entropy, pgs. 247-48; creator, pg. 248), 2nd ed. Wiley.
(b) Wylen, Gordon and Sonntag, Richard. (1985). Fundamentals of Classical Thermodynamics (creator, pg. 233), 3rd ed. Wiley.
(c) Duck, Mark. (2008). “Evolution and the Second Law of Thermodynamics”, DetectingTruth.com, May 14.
3. Kyle, Benjamin G. (1999). Entropy: Reflections of a Classical Thermodynamicist (ch. 8: The Mystique of Entropy, 15 pgs.). Kansas State University; first published on attached CD-ROM to Chemical and Process Thermodynamics (3rd ed.), Prentice Hall, 1999; first published in: Chemical Engineering Education (abstract), Vol. 22., pgs. 92-97. Spr, 1988.
4. (a) Cengel, Yunus A. and Boles, Michael A. (2002). Thermodynamics: an Engineering Approach (4th ed) (ch. 6: Entropy; subsection: Entropy and Entropy Generation in Daily Life, pgs. 318-19). McGraw-Hill.
(b) Entropy and Entropy Generation in Daily Life (2010) – Technocktail.info.
(c) Cengel, Yunus A. and Boles, Michael A. (2006). Thermodynamics: an Engineering Approach (ch. 4, pg. 193, ch. 7, pg. 349, ch. 8, pgs. 465-69). McGraw-Hill.

5. Kreuzer, H.J. and Tamblyn, Isaac. (2010). Thermodynamics (§8.6: Athletes: the Human Engine, pgs. 160-62; §8.6: Thermodynamics in Economics, pgs. 162-66). World Scientific.
6. Keii, Tominaga. (2004). Heterogeneous Kinetics: Theory of Ziegler-Natta-Kaminsky (ch. 2: Thermodynamics of Chemical Reactions, pgs. 11-20; section: Chemical Affinity in 1806, pgs. 16-17). Springer.
7. Barker, Daniel and Rousseau, Viateur. (1980). Foundations of College Chemistry (Rossini, pg. 345). Wiley.
8. Annamalai, Kalyan, Puri, Ishwar K., and Jog, Milind A. (2011). Advanced Thermodynamics Engineering (§14: Thermodynamics and Biological Systems, pgs. 709-99, contributed by Kalyan Annamalai and Carlos Silva; §14.4.1: Human body | Formulae, pgs. 726-27; Thims, ref. 88). CRC Press.
9. Riley, Donna. (2011). Engineering Thermodynamics and 21st Century Energy Problems: A Textbook Companion for Student Engagement (pdf) (§2.5: Thermo to Life, pgs. 46-47; §3.3: Entropy as a Social Construct, pgs. 55-57; §3.4: Evaluating Entropy Analogies, pgs. 58-59; §4.5: Ethics of Energy Disasters, pgs. 79-80). Morgan& Claypool.
10. (a) Saha, Meghnad and Srivastava, B.N. (1931). Treatise on Heat (pg. 105). The Indian Press, Itd.
(b) Saha, Meghnad and Srivastava, B.N. (1935). Treatise on Heat, Second Revised Edition (pg. 124). The Indian Press, Itd.
(c) Dash, Kishore. (2014). “Indian School of Econophysics”, work draft (Hmolpedia article) (pdf), Jan 30.
(d) Meghnad Saha – Wikipedia.
11. Thims, Libb. (2015/16). Chemical Thermodynamics: with Applications in the Humanities (85-page version: pdf). Publisher.
12. Gould, Harvey and Tobochnik, Jan. (2010). Statistical and Thermal Physics: With Computer Applications (social, 4+ pgs; economics, pg. 177). Princeton University Press.
13. (a) Moran, Michael J. and Shapiro, Howard N. (2003). Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (3rd ed) (6.10D, pg. 290). Wiley.
(b) Moran, Michael J. and Shapiro, Howard N. (2007). Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (6th ed) (far removed, pg. 215; Boltzmann relation, pg. 281; living things, pg. 282). Wiley.
(c) Moran, Michael J., Shapiro, Howard N., Boettner, Daisie D., and Bailey, Margaret B. (2010). Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (7th ed) (5.10D, pg. 277). Wiley.

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