From Simon & Schuster, The World After Oil is Bruce Nussbaum's exploration of the shifting axis of power wealth. As Bruce Nussbaum describes, in the race for th

The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it,

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“A stunning piece of work—perhaps the best single book ever produced about our energy economy and its environmental implications” (Bill McHibbon, The New

Substantial evidence suggests that we are currently living at the peak of oil production with few prospects for cheap oil ever returning. Yet the media, politic