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Oil Books

  • Darley, Julian.  High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis.  (Chelsea Green, 2004).
  • Deffeyes, KennethBeyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak.  (Hill & Wang, 2005).
  • Deffeyes, Kenneth.  Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage.   (Princeton University Press, 2003).
  • Engdahl, F. William.  A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order.  (Pluto Press, 2004).
  • Hartmann, Thom. The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight.  (Hodder Mobius, 2001).
  • Heinberg, Richard.  The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies.  (Clairview Books, 2003).
  • Heinberg, Richard.  Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World.  (Clairview Books, 2004).
  • Klare, Michael.  Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consquences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency.   (Penguin Books, 2004).
  • Klare, Michael.  Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict.   (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001).
  • Kunstler, James Howard.  The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century.  (Atlantic Books, 2005).
  • Lovins, Amory.  Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace.  (Ballentine, 1977)
  • McKillop, Andrew.  The Final Energy Crisis.  (Pluto Press, 2005).
  • Nye, David.  Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies.  (MIT Press, 1998).
  • Pratt, Joseph A. "The Ascent of Oil: The transition from coal to oil in early twentieth-century America," in Energy Transitions: Long-Term Perspectives, ed. L. Perelman et al.  (Westview, 1981).
  • Roberts, Paul. The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World.  (First Mariner Books, 2005).
  • Simmons, Matthew. Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy.  (John Wiley & Sons, 2005).
  • Singer, S. Fred.  Energy: Readings from Scientific American.  (W. H. Freeman, 1979).
  • Yergin, Daniel.  The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power.  (Touchstone Books, 1993).

Water Books


  • Barlow, Maude. Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water (The New Press, 2002).
  • Gleick, Peter. World's Water, 2004-2005: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources  (Island Press, 2002).
  • Glennon, Robert. Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Freshwaters  (Island Press, 2002).
  • de Villiers, Marq.  Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource  (First Mariner Books, 2001).
  • Holland, Marjorie.  Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems: A Web of Connections  (Island Press, 2003).
  • Postel, Sandra.  Rivers of Life: Managing Water for People and Nature  (Island Press, 2003).
  • Reisner, Mark. Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water (Penguin Books, 1993).
  • Shiva, Vandana.  Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit  (South End Press, 2002).




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