The 2nd edition of this book was my introduction to the subject of systems engineering. Because it is one of the very few that discusses the critical importance of systems engineering to project management, I still consider it one of the best project management texts around.
Project management is about organising the work required to deliver a product or service. Its competence is in organising the work and making it go forward to completion within the planned cost and schedule. It has no competence in determining whether the end product is going to be effective or not. Systems engineering provides this competency.
Listed below are some of the books referenced by the above work. This list is not necessarily complete (sometimes I list only those that interest me). When there is a newer edition of a book than the one originally referenced, the link is to the newer version. Items marked with a 
| Title | Author | Remarks |
| Search for the Real and Other Essays | Hans Hoffman (ed.) | Amazon |
| Communicating Project Management | Hal Mooz, Kevin Forsberg, Howard Cotterman | Amazon |
| A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge | Project Management Institute | Amazon |
| Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea | Gary Kinder | Amazon |
| General and Industrial Management | Henri Fayol | Amazon |
| Star Teams, Key Players | Michele Jackman | Amazon |
| Superior Teams: What They Are and How to Develop Them | Dennis Kinlaw | Amazon |
| Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation | James Womack | Amazon |
| Final Report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board | NASA | Amazon |
| Theories of Human Communication | Stephen W. Littlejohn | Amazon |
| Phenomenology of Communication: Merleau Ponty’s Thematics in Communicology and Semiology | Richard L. Lanigan | Amazon |
| Communicate with Confidence! How to Say it Right the First Time and Every Time | Dianna Booher | Amazon |
| Powerful Conversations: How High-Impact Leaders Communicate | Philip J. Harkins | Amazon |
| How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation | Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey | Amazon |
| Jack Welch and the GE Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO | Robert Slater | Amazon |
| The Power of Little Words | John L. Beckley | Amazon |
| The Professor and the Madman | Simon Winchester | Amazon |
| McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Mechanical and Design Engineering | Sybil Parker, ed | Amazon |
| Tutorial: System and Software Requirements Engineering | R. H. Thayer, M. Dorfman, eds | Amazon |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen R. Covey | Amazon |
| People and Performance: The Best of Peter Drucker on Management | Peter F. Drucker | Amazon |
| Dynamic Project Management | Deborah S. Kezsbom, Donald Schilling, Katherine A. Edward | Amazon (links to the new version of the book) |
| NASA GPG 7120.5 System Engineering | Systems Management Office, NASA GSFC | Amazon |
| NASA NPG 7120.5C Program and Project Management Processes and Requirements | AE/Office of Chief Engineer, NASA HQ | Amazon |
| DoDI 5000.2 Acquisition Management | DoD | Amazon |
| ISO 15288, “Systems Engineering: System Life Cycle Processes” | ISO | Amazon |
| Microsoft Secrets | Michael Cusumano, Richard Selby | Amazon |
| Partnership Pays: Project Management the Øresund Way | Helena Russell | Amazon |
| The Path Between the Seas | David McCullough | Amazon |
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| Eberhardt Rechtin, Mark W. Maier | Amazon (link to 3rd edition). Some people prefer the older version authored by Rechtin |
| Systems Engineering: Coping with Complexity | Richard Stevens, Peter Brook, Ken Jackson, Stuart Arnold | Amazon |
| Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development, 3rd ed. | Craig Larman | Amazon |
| Apollo 13 | Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger | Amazon |
| Skunk Works | Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos | Amazon |
| Moving Mountains | William G. Pagonis | Amazon |
| The Bishop’s Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright | Tom D. Crouch | Amazon |
| An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | John Locke | Amazon |
| The Innovator’s Dilemma | Clayton M. Christensen | Amazon |
| The QFD Book: The Team Approach to Solving Problems and Satisfying Customers through Quality Function Deployment | L. Guinta, N. Praizler | Amazon |
| Business @ the Speed of Thought | Bill Gates | Amazon |
| The New Rational Manager | Charles H. Kepner, Benjamin B. Tregoe | Amazon |
| Engineering Complex Systems with Models and Objects | David Oliver, Timothy P. Kelliher, James G. Keegan Jr. | Amazon |
| Tropic of Capricorn | Henry Miller | Amazon |
| Team-Based Project Management | James P. Lewis | Amazon |
| In Search of Excellence | Tom I. Peters, R. H. Waterman Jr | Amazon |
| Project Management | Harold Kerzner | Amazon |
| The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Project Management | Sunny Baker, Kim Baker | Amazon |
| Risk Management: Tricks of the Trade for Project Managers | Rita Mulcahy | Amazon |
| Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project | Tom Kendrick | Amazon |
| Making Hard Decisions | Robert T. Clemen | Amazon |
| Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer | Amazon |
| Principles of Management | Leonard J. Kazmier | Amazon |
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| Peter W. G. Morris, Jeffrey K. Pinto | Amazon |
| How to Make Meetings Work | Michael Doyle, David Straus | Amazon |
| Gnomologia, Adagies and Proverbs, Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British | Thomas Fuller | Amazon |
| The Visual Display of Quantitative Information | Edward R. Tufte | Amazon |
| Visual Explanations | Edward R. Tufte | Amazon |
| Blind Man’s Bluff: An Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage | Sherry Sontag, Chistopher Drew | Amazon |
| The Leadership Moment | Michael Useem | Amazon |
| The Human Side of Enterprise | Douglas McGregor | Amazon |
| Theory Z: How American Business Can Meet the Japanese Challenge | William G. Ouchi | Amazon |
| The Motivation to Work | Frederick Herzberg, Bernard Mausner, Barbara Snyderman | Amazon |
| Punished by Rewards | Alfie Kohn | Amazon |
| Management of Organizational Behavior: Utilizing Group Resources | P. Hersey, K. H. Blanchard | Amazon |
| Please Under-stand Me, Character & Temperament Types | David Keirsey , Marilyn Bates | Amazon |
| Have Blue and the 117A | David C. Aronstein, Albert C. Piccirillo | Amazon |
| Influence, the Psychology of Persuasion | Robert B. Cialdini | Amazon |
| Lewis Spacecraft Mission Failure Investigation Board Final Report | NASA Headquarters | Amazon |
| Death March | Edward Yourdon | Amazon |
Software Project Management: A Unified Framework (paperback) (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology): Walker Royce: 9780321734020: Books
Project Delivery System: Fourth Edition: CH2M HILL Project Mangers: 9780965261616: Books
, are works I can recommend.
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