"It took hundreds of millions of years for petroleum to form on Earth. It took just 150 years for human beings to bleed the planet of roughly half of this oil. ... Examines the catastrophic prospect of 'world peak oil', or the point in time when the quantity of petroleum extracted from the earth begins to irreversibly decline."--Container.

"Por que Donald Trump fue electo presidente de Estados Unidos? Su victoria electoral dice mucho sobre el pais mas poderoso del mundo y sus ciudadanos, pero tambien sobre nosotros como sociedad. Ahora, ante la xenofobia, la misoginia, el nacionalismo, el populismo y otros azotes caracteristicos de ese regimen, cuales son las mayores amenazas para la region? Con el mejor estilo de los panfletos y libelos politicos de los siglos xix y xx, Jorge Volpi...

In Freedom's Just Another Word for People Finding Out You're Useless, the thirty-second collection, fans get a hilarious collection of great Dilbert strips that are anything but useless. From office politics and reams of red tape, to mayhem due to new technologies and, of course, the crazy cast of co-workers, Dilbert gets it done.

"The inward-looking, isolationist tendencies of the United States as it emerged from the first World War may give the impression of a country vastly different from the outward-looking incipient superpower that began to materialize during WWII. As it transitioned from economic depression to international prominence under the steady hand of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the United States slowly carved out a place for itself on the world stage....

Examines the life and political career of Lyndon B. Johnson, and explains how his foreign policy failures overrode the successes of his domestic programs.