Home About Us Human Lifespan Corporate Lifecycles The Universe Basal Books

Books written by Dr. Daniel Hershey

 



Basal Books was organized when response to Dr. Hershey’s lectures and writings on aging and evolving systems created a continuous request for copies of his books and papers. Basal Books is the publisher of Dr. Hershey’s recent books and the distributor of his earlier writings.  

 


Books by Dr. Daniel Hershey


Lifespan Potential, Longevity, Obesity and Fitness

Data and theories on aging, obesity and health of humans.

ISBN 0-916961-16-8

 

 

A New Way of Ranking the Nations of the World

Methods for determining power and influence of countries.

ISBN 0-916961-18-4

 

Diagnosing an Organizations Bureaucracy II

An extension of Diagnosing an Organizational Bureaucracy.

ISBN 0-916961-20-6

 

 

Designing an Optimal Corporate Structure Methods I and II

How to fill the shells in the structure by analogy to the electron shells of the atom.

ISBN 0-916961-17-6

Hershey Corporate Lifecycles

How organizations grow and age.  
How the six Hershey Parameters related to overlapping activities, power distribution, and information flow, can define a corporation's lifecycle.

ISBN 0-916961-15-X

Lexicon Avenue

A small dictionary of words from The New Yorker, The New York Times, and William Buckley

ISBN 0-916961-11-7

 

Establishing the Age of a Corporation

Supplement to Diagnosing an Organizational Bureaucracy.  The ages of a corporation: from birth, to adolescence, maturity, senescence, moribund, and death.  The six Hershey Parameters described in Diagnosing an Organizational Bureaucracy yield the Hershey Age Scale for corporations.

ISBN 0-916961-13-3

The Universe and Beyond

The birth of the universe out of Infinity and its return to Infinity.  Shows calculations of the pressure, volume, temperature, and entropy of the universe as it evolves from it's beginning, ages, and dies.  Significant discussion of the concepts of Infinity and Entropy.

ISBN 0-916961-12-5

Diagnosing an Organizational Bureaucracy: A New Paradigm for Restructuring and Reengineering a Corporation

Six parameters are identified which describe the efficiency of a corporation's structure (function follows form). These are overlapping activities, the geometry of the table of organization, interactions which bypass the bosses, the center of gravity of power, the distribution of power, and informational entropy (the efficiency of information flow). User-friendly software is available in order to compute the six parameters and display the results.

ISBN 0-916961-03-6

Entropy, Infinity, and God

The concept of entropy, as a measure of order and disorder, tells us much about birth, aging, and death. Death is when we achieve maximum disorder (maximum entropy). Entropy also indicates the direction of time's arrow. Infinity is the grandest of concepts, without limits, without boundaries, beyond our imagination. God, as a concept, is also beyond limits, beyond our imagination. These three ideas, Entropy, Infinity, and God can be examined together, as is done in this book. The aim is to show how they merge. The aim is also to try to understand our existence, the birth of our universe, the presence of God, and the biggest question of all: What's beyond our universe?

ISBN 0-916961-02-8

Must We Grow Old : From Pauling to Prigogine to Toynbee

Aging of people, corporations, nations, and civilizations are explored in this book. Topics include the science of the aging process in living, human systems (Linus Pauling), the thermodynamics (entropy) of aging (Ilya Prigogine), and aging, evolving nations and civilizations (Arnold Toynbee).

ISBN 0-916961-00-1

Lifespan and Factors Affecting It

The free radical theory of aging and other aging theories, loss of bodily functions, aging on the cellular level, the basal metabolic rate and life expectancy.
ISBN 0-916961-04-4

A New Age-Scale for Humans

Lifespan of animals, aging theories, metabolism and entropy concepts in predicting longevity of humans. Use of a whole-body calorimeter to measure the basal metabolic rate and establish life expectancy.

ISBN 0-916961-05-2

Everyday Science

The fundamental natural laws behind commonplace events and things: furnaces; refrigerators; anti-freeze in automobiles; electricity and light bulbs; smokestacks; thrown baseballs; jet airplanes; spinning ice skaters; pulleys; air conditioners; frost formation on car windows; capillary action; rainbows; rising bread and other subjects.
ISBN 0-916961-06-0

My University, My God

A professor’s personal look at teaching verses research, tenure, undergraduate grading, the corporatization of the university. The autobiography of an education.
ISBN 0-916961-07-9

Transport Analysis

A chemical engineering professor writes about fluid flow and mass transport from a mathematical perspective. Ordinary and partial differential equations that describe transport phenomena, while using calculus, vector and matrix algebra, Laplace transforms and the calculus of finite differences.
ISBN 0-916961-08-7

Chemical Engineering in Medicine and Biology (editor)

Applications of chemical engineering concepts to medicine and biology. Topics range over blood flow and blood oxygenation, mass transfer in the eye, artificial kidneys, separation of bacteria by ion exchange, mathematical modeling of drug distribution, carbon dioxide respiration kinetics, water in frozen tissues, electrophoretic separation of proteins, and outer space research on life support systems.
ISBN 0-916961-10-9

Blood Oxygenation (editor)

Kinetics of the oxygen-hemoglobin reaction, the chemistry of blood oxygenation, transport properties of the red cell, the role of ACD, CPD, and plasma constituents in blood preservation, and analysis, design and evaluation of artificial oxygenation devices ("artificial lungs").
ISBN 0-916961-09-5

 

Order books and reprints from Basal Books. Books cost $25; reprints are $5, except these books which may cost more: "Transport Analysis"; "Blood Oxygenation"; and "Chemical Engineering in Medicine and Biology".

 

Order now: orders@basaltech.com

Contact: Dr. Daniel Hershey


Home