These texts, recommended by Project Management lecturers Chivonne Algeo and Julien Pollack, provide you with a good introduction to the subject:
Books:
Cleland, David I., and Ireland,Lewis R. (2000) Project manager's portable handbook [2]. New York, USA: McGraw Hill.
Cleland, David I. (1999) Project management: strategic design and implementation [3]. New York, USA: McGraw-Hill, 3rd ed.
Cleland, David I. (1996) Strategic management of teams [4]. New York, USA: Wiley.
Dinsmore, Paul C. (ed.) (1993) The AMA handbook of project management [5]. New York, USA: AMACOM.
Larson, E.W. and Gray, C.F., (2011) Project Management: The Managerial Process [6]. Boston, USA: McGraw-Hill, 5th ed.
Healy, Patrick L. (1997) Project management: getting the job done on time and in budget [7]. Port Melbourne, Australia: Butterworth-Heinemann.
Kerzner, Harold. (2000) Applied project management: best practices on implementation [8], New York, USA: Wiley.
Meredith, Jack R., and Samuel J. Mantel, Jr. (2012) Project Management. A Managerial Approach [9], Canada: John Wiley & Sons, 8th ed.
Pinto, Jeffrey K., and Jeffrey W. Trailer (eds) (1999) Essentials of project control [10], Newton Square, USA: Project Management Institute.
Pinto, Jeffrey K., and Jeffrey W. Trailer (eds) (1998) Leadership skills for project managers [11], Newton Square, USA: Project Management Institute.
Pinto, Jeffrey K. et al. (1998) Project leadership: from theory to practice [12], Newtown Square, USA: Project Management Institute.
Pinto, Jeffrey K. (ed.) foreword by Ireland, Lewis R. (1999) The Project Management Institute: project management handbook [13], San Francisco, USA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1st ed.
PMI (Sponsor) (2008) A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge [14] (PMBOK® Guide), Newtown Square, PA, Project Management Institute, 4th ed.
Reiss, Geoff. (1995) Project Management Demystified [15], London, UK: E & FN Spon, 2nd ed.
Remington, K. and Pollack, J. (2007), Tools for Complex Projects [16], Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Schwalbe, K. (2007), Information Technology Project Management [17], Boston, USA: Thomson Learning, 5th ed.
Turner, J.R. (2009) The Handbook of Project-Based Management: Leading strategic change in organizations [18]. London, UK: McGraw-Hill, 3rd ed.