- complex societies and energy
Tainter, Joseph A. The Collapse of Complex Societies. New Studies in Archaeology. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Lord, Barry. Art & Energy. Washington, DC: The AAM Press, 2014.
- energy and consumption
Hagens, N.J. “Economics for the Future – Beyond the Superorganism.” Ecological Economics 169 (March 2020): 106520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106520.
- Energy budgets
Barrett, Lisa Feldman. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, 2018. http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=none&isbn=9780544129962.
- sleep
Walker, Matthew P. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc, 2017.
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