Product Description: Water Wars: Fight to the Last Drop questions whether water—a necessary resource that has both powered nations and caused their downfalls—has become the oil of the 21st century. Exploring environmental scarcity, global business, privatization, and hotspots of projected future conflict, Water Wars illuminates the more controversial side of what da Vinci once called " the driving force of all life...read more

Product Description: Lightning Guides' Immortality: Live Forever or Die Trying explores an historical obsession with eternal life. Featuring tales of chronicled figures (like Ponce de Leon and his supposed search for the Fountain of Youth, and Henrietta Lacks and her undying genes) and material phenomena (from ambrosia of the Greek Gods to cryonics and virtual immortality), Immortality presents a lust for perpetual youth alongside the human desire to live forever...read more