Robert Bryce

In the ancient world it was guns, germs, and steel that determined the fates of people and nations; now, more than ever, it is electricity. 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 are still living in places where per-capita electricity use is less than what's used by an average American refrigerator. How we close the enormous gap between the electricity rich and the electricity poor will affect everything from women's rights and healthcare to warfare and climate change. In A Question of Power, Robert Bryce tells the human story of electricity and explains why some countries have successfully electrified while so many others remain stuck in the dark. He shows how our cities, our money--our very lives--depend on reliable flows of electricity. Electricity has fueled a new epoch in the history of civilization. A Question of Power explains how that happened and what it means for our future.

Electricity and the Wealth of Nations

A Question of Power

Argues against the modern movement to de-industrialize, re-localize and reduce both consumption and development in order to preserve the planet and instead advocates for advancing innovations and future technologies to improve the world with smaller, faster solutions. 35,000 first printing.

How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong

Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper

Looks at the the rise and fall of Enron, tracing the company's transformation from a small gas pipeline firm into a global conglomerate and the reasons why Enron ultimately failed.

Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron

Pipe Dreams

No other province holds more political and economic power than the Lone Star State. Two of the last three American presidents—and three of the last eight—have been Texans. Each of them got to the White House by exploiting a network of money and power that no other state can match. In Cronies, renowned investigative reporter Robert Bryce illuminates how Texas turned its vast energy resources into political power, and how a small group of Texas corporations, lawyers and politicians use that power to protect and defend their own economic interests. Through an absorbing narrative that moves from the days of the oil boom, through the rise and reign of LBJ, to today, Bryce profiles the Texans and the Texas corporations who have wielded—and continue to wield—great power in America's domestic and foreign policy, including the Bushes, James A. Baker III, Halliburton, Baker Botts, Ray Hunt, Bell Helicopter, and more. He shows how massive transfers of wealth from the rest of the country to Texas have allowed the state to prosper. Cronies demonstrates how George W. Bush is the living embodiment of Texas' crony networks, and how those networks continue to play critical roles in the 21st century. Distinguished by the same crack investigative skills and colorful storytelling that reviewers loved in Pipe Dreams, Cronies not only explains the astonishing rise of Texas; it offers a timely, provocative new way to look at American politics and our deadly entanglements in Iraq.

How Texas Business Became American Policy-- and Brought Bush to Power

Cronies

Exposes myths about energy, demonstrating why renewable energies are not green and arguing that oil and coal are here to stay, and that natural gas and nuclear energy are the wave of the future.

The Myths of "green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future

Power Hungry

For more than three decades, politicians have been promising to make America energy independent. According to Byrce, this rhetoric is neither doable nor desirable. This work shows why America must drop this idea of energy independence and, instead, embrace interdependence.

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