In a post-oil America with no electricity, no Internet, dwindling resources, and little civic order, the residents of the small town of Union Grove, New York, must deal with roving bandits and a sinister cult that threatens to shatter the hamlet's stability

With world oil production about to peak and inexorably head toward steep decline, what fuels are available to meet rising global energy demands? That question, once thought to address a fairly remote contingency, has become ever more urgent, as a spate of books has drawn increased public attention to the imminent exhaustion of the economically vital world oil reserves. Kenneth S. Deffeyes, a geologist who was among the first to warn of the coming...

Lifelong friends Pat and Gayle co-own the Ell & ME Company, but personal dramas force each to face issues from her past.

When British oil tycoon and M's friend, Sir Robert King, is killed in a bombing at the MI6 headquarters, it becomes James Bond's new assignment to protect his daughter and heir, Elektra, from further harm. Bond's real mission is to keep an eye on a new enemy named Renard. He is a man who feels no pain whatsoever after a bullet was put into his head, who along with Elektra and their henchmen plan to nuke Europe and everything in it's path. Now with...

"We have spent the last two centuries building a civilization on coal and the last century building it bigger still on oil. Fossil fuels have been the wellspring of our complex, glorious modern world, but they are about to run out. By the end of the 21st century, our oil and natural gas supplies will be virtually nonexistent, and limited coal supplies will be restricted to only a handful of countries. Environmental scientist Steve Hallett and veteran...