A new science book about the Mojave Desert and sustainability. Lots of good stuff on desert ecology and the kind of sustainable living we ought to be doing.

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond; why Europeons overwhelmed the First Americans and not the other way around.

Collapse by Jared Diamond; how and why societies fail.

The Party's Over by Richard Heinberg; oil, war, and the fate of industrial societies.

Twilight in the Desert by Matthew Simmons; do you think OPEC has lots of oil?

Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak by Kenneth Deffeyes; one of the best descriptions of peak oil by a colleague of M. King Hubbert.

Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb; how shit happens that we have no way of predicting and it makes a big impact.

Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change by William R. Catton; one of the best descriptions of the fix we're in -- a classic.