Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Caught in the Thirst Trap

In Search of the River Jordan: A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water

By James Fergusson

Water and Peace: A Journey Through the World’s Most Explosive Conflict Zones in Search of Deep Water

By Alain Gachet

The Last Drop: Solving the World’s Water Crisis

By Tim Smedley

LR

August 2022 Issue

Nicolas Niarchos

Batteries Not Included

Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

By Henry Sanderson

LR

February 2021 Issue

Rose George

A Rig of One’s Own

Sea State

By Tabitha Lasley

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February 2021 Issue

Oliver Balch

Where the Streets are Paved with Thulium

The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies

By Guillaume Pitron (Translated from French by Bianca Jacobsohn)

Wars of the Interior

By Joseph Zárate (Translated from Spanish by Annie McDermott)

December 2020 Issue

James Hall

Between a Rock & a Hard Place

Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

By Fabio Barry

LR

June 2020 Issue

Ricardo Soares de Oliveira

Greasy Palms

Crude Intentions: How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World

By Alexandra Gillies

March 2020 Issue

Kieran Pender

Oiling the Wheels

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

By Rachel Maddow

LR

August 2016 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Flow Country

The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China

By Philip Ball

LR

February 2016 Issue

Michael Burleigh

Unobtainium

The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

By David S Abraham

November 2003 Issue

Hazhir Teimourian

In The Steppes of Curzon

The New Great Game: Blood and Oil In Central Asia

By Lutz Kleveman

LR

November 2007 Issue

Saul David

Out of the Turmoil

Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa

By Martin Meredith

LR

April 2005 Issue

Paul Johnson

Mineral Madness

The Age Of Gold: The Story Of An Obsession That Swept The World

By H W Brands

LR

September 2012 Issue

D D Guttenplan

Oil & Trouble

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

By Steve Coll

LR

October 2012 Issue

Oliver Bullough

Crude Developments

The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London

By James Marriott & Mika Minio-Paluello

LR

December 2012 Issue

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Liquid Assets

Thirst: Water & Power in the Ancient World

By Steven Mithen

LR

April 2014 Issue

Colin Tudge

Hotting Up

A Rough Ride to the Future: The Next Evolution of Gaia

By James Lovelock

LR

February 2014 Issue

Michael Burleigh

My Precious

Gold: The Race for the World’s Most Seductive Metal

By Matthew Hart

LR

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