sequestering carbon, several books at a time X

Three weeks’ worth of input, partly populated as a result of me reading Mattessich’s 1982 survey of Systems Theory literature (“The Systems Approach: Its Variety of Aspects”), because the author “decided to concentrate mainly on books” in that survey.  Naturally, several of the concentrate appear in this pile.  Some others appear because they were brought to my attention on blogs that I read.