1. News (this page)
2. About the Book
3. About the Authors
4. List of Book Chapters and Appendices
   (each with a brief description of contents)
5. Extra Chapters that didn’t make it into the book:
   
   1. Sowing Pandora’s Fields
      (Genetically Modified Crops)
   2. ORVs at Algodones Dunes
   3. Climate Change [TBA]
   4. Earth Art [TBA]
6. Photos as seen in the slide show above
7. Extra Photos that didn’t make it into the book
8. Quotations assembled during book research
9. Alphabetical Reference List
   (excludes most newspaper references)
10. Links to related sites

The Zinger Box*

Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of dollars of taxpayer money into the mail-order-catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into the CD music business on the eve of the birth of the iPod and iTunes. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into a book-store chain on the eve of the birth of Amazon.com and the Kindle. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into improving typewriters on the eve of the birth of the PC and the Internet.

–Thomas Friedman, December 2008

 

*Every now and then there will be a featured “Zinger”—in the form of a current news item, new facts and figures, editorial comments from the authors, excerpts, quotations, and other info.