A Question of Power in the woods

A Question of Power in the woodsAn informative and highly readable (Foreign Affairs) breakdown of the history of electricity and the impact of global energy use on the world and the environment Global demand for power is doubling every two decades, but electricity remains one of the most difficult forms of energy to supply and do so reliably. Today, some three billion people live in places where per capita electricity use is less than what's used by an average American refrigerator.

need a helping hand

Or is it vice versa

restoring the Chinese version of its place in the world as they had always known it

four teenagers are electrocuted in an apparent group suicide

Maximilian was executed by a firing squad and Carlota

but they have in almost every case actively harmed America's minorities and poor

until their nearest neighbors

She traces the "second generation's" trajectory from childhood intimations of horror

Isaac Hayes

"The first book in Watson's new fantasy trilogy is raw

far more than dazzling moves

their true stories show us a side of the profession that few ever see