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Will the new world order be built around military might or who has natural resources. I’m thinking both, frankly, as those who have the military might will likely grab all the resources. At any rate, author Michael T. Klare will offer some food for thought along those lines in “Rising Powers Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy.” He predicts a dangerous future in which the depletion of natural resources like oil, gas, uranium and copper will lead to violence and strange alliances.
And in another nonfiction book, Tony Horwitz offers “A Voyage Long and Strange,” in which he writes about an often overlooked era of history — the time between Columbus’ voyage in 1492 and the founding of Jamestown in 1600.
