Joule Heist — Physical Book Collection

Source: Libib catalog https://www.libib.com/u/r26d/l/2204076
Exported: 2026-05-14
Total items: 80
Focus: Building systems, hydronics, solar energy, construction

Physical books available for scanning and ingest. The solar-relevant subset is listed below; the full CSV is at ../library_20260514_211045.csv.

Steve Baer / Zomeworks titles

#	Title	Publisher	Year	Pages	ISBN	Notes
41	Sunspots: An Exploration of Solar Energy Through Fact and Fiction	Cloudburst Press	1979	127	978-0-88930-061-3	✅ Wiki: confirmed ISBN and page count
42	”Solar 2: Proceedings of the UN Conference on New Sources of Energy, Rome 1961”	Cloudburst Press	1978	315	978-0-88930-031-6	⚠️ Likely Libib cataloging error — title/author mismatch; Steve Baer cannot be the author of a 1961 UN conference proceedings. ISBN 0-88930-031-6 is a real Cloudburst Press book but title is probably wrong. Physical examination needed.
43	Sunspots: Collected facts and solar fiction	Zomeworks Corporation	1977	115	(none)	Page count discrepancy: physical copy = 115pp; LBL AET bibliography (1979) cites this edition as 146pp. Possible explanation: different printings, incomplete copy, or LBL included index/appendices.

Solar and passive design titles — priority ingest candidates

#	Title	Author	Publisher	Year	Pages	ISBN
55	A Golden Thread: 2500 Years of Solar Architecture & Technology	Ken Butti & John Perlin	Cheshire Books	1980	289	978-0-917352-07-2
56	Super Solar Houses	William A. Shurcliff	Brick House Publishing	1983	140	978-0-931790-48-5
57	The Solar Home Book: Heating, Cooling, and Designing with the Sun	Bruce Anderson & Michael Riordan	Cheshire Books	1976	297	978-0-917352-01-0
58	The Passive Solar Energy Book (Expanded Professional Ed.)	Edward Mazria	Rodale Press	1979	687	978-0-878572-38-0
59	Soft Energy Paths: Towards a Durable Peace	Amory B. Lovins	HarperCollins	1979	240	978-0-060906-53-5
63	Direct Use of the Sun’s Energy	Farrington Daniels	Yale UP	1971	391	978-0-300029-86-4
65	The Passive Solar House	James Kachadorian	Chelsea Green	1997	220	978-0-930031-97-8
67	Natural Solar Architecture: The Passive Solar Primer	David Wright	Van Nostrand Reinhold	1984	272	978-0-442293-65-9
69	The Passive Solar Design and Construction Handbook	Michael J. Crosbie / Steven Winter Associates	Wiley	1998	291	978-0-471183-08-2
72	Homegrown Sundwellings	Peter Van Dresser	Lightning Tree Press	1977	135	978-0-890160-33-6
73	A Landscape for Humans	Peter Van Dresser	Lightning Tree	1976	128	978-0-890160-05-3
77	Passive Solar Design Handbook	Bruce Anderson	Van Nostrand Reinhold	1985	384	978-0-442208-10-3
78	Passive Solar Design Handbook, Volume 3	Robert W. Jones	American Solar Energy Society	1983	668	978-0-895531-06-3
79	Passive Solar Energy: The Homeowner’s Guide	Bruce Anderson & Malcolm Wells	Brick House Publishing	1981	198	978-0-931790-09-6
80	Shelter	Lloyd Kahn & Bob Easton	Shelter Publications	2000	176	978-0-936070-11-7

Also: Shelter II (no author credited, Shelter Publications, 2010, 224pp), Design for a Limited Planet (Skurka & Naar, 1977, 2 copies), The Solar House (Chiras, 2002), The Homeowner’s Guide to Renewable Energy (Chiras, 2006).

Corrections to existing wiki entries

Daniels page count: Physical copy confirms 391 pages (not ~290 as estimated from ToC). The ToC ends at bibliography (p. 261) and “Todo List” (p. 288) but the physical book includes index and additional back matter totaling 391pp.

Sunspots 1977 page count discrepancy:

LBL AET bibliography (August 1979) cites: 146 pages
Physical copy in Joule Heist: 115 pages
Resolution unknown without examining both copies. Possible: different printings within the 1977 Zomeworks run; or LBL counted differently (including covers/appendices); or physical copy is incomplete.

“Solar 2” entry: ISBN 978-0-88930-031-6, attributed to Steve Baer, Cloudburst Press, 1978, 315pp. The title is almost certainly wrong — the UN Conference on New Sources of Energy (Rome, 1961) proceedings were published by the UN, not Cloudburst Press, and Baer is not their author. The physical book should be examined to determine actual title.

Ingest priority order (solar-relevant)

A Golden Thread (Butti & Perlin) — historical survey; longest lineage to Baer’s work; 289pp manageable
Super Solar Houses (Shurcliff, 1983) — unknown to wiki; 140pp
The Solar Home Book (Anderson & Riordan, 1976) — on Solar Fools reading list; 297pp
Natural Solar Architecture (Wright, 1984) — on reading list; 2 copies; 272pp
Sunspots 1977 Zomeworks (115pp) — edition comparison with 1975 and 1979 versions
Passive Solar Design Handbook Vol. 3 (Jones, 1983, 668pp) — the Balcomb/DOE series

Joule Heist — Physical Book Collection

Steve Baer / Zomeworks titles

Solar and passive design titles — priority ingest candidates

Corrections to existing wiki entries

Ingest priority order (solar-relevant)

See also