 | The Limits to Growth: The 30-year Update by D.H. Meadows
Buy new: £13.09 / Used from: £9.76 First published 30 years ago and dismissed as doom-mongering. Likely to be taken more seriously now that it's too late.
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 | Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £6.52 Half the world's oil has gone. Doesn't sound so bad? Actually it means food shortages, unaffordable transport, and the collapse of capitalist economics.
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 | Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: The Shocking Story of How America Really Took Over the World by John Perkins
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.97 If you don't believe America and the West had a systematic agenda of ripping off the Third World, read this book.
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 | See No Evil by Robert Baer
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.15 A rollicking read that suggests that the CIA stymied attempts by its officers to investigate terrorism in the 1990s.
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 | The Affluent Society by John Galbraith
Buy used from: £6.93 An informative and still relevant critique of blind consumerism.
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 | The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West by Edward Lucas
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £1.31 A bit of an anti-Russian rant in places, but very informative in others, this book emphasises that we underestimate Russian power - and belligerence - at our peril.
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 | The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 by David Ray Griffin
Buy new: £4.57 / Used from: £2.38 This is not hysterical conspiracy theory trash, but a level-headed questioning of gaping holes in the official account of what happened on 9/11. No finger-pointing, just questions asked.
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 | Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £6.76 Is it completely beyond the realms of possibility that the Bush administration allowed 9/11 to happen with a view to seizing control of the world's dwindling oil supplies? Michael Ruppert thinks not.
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 | The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Buy new: £7.97 / Used from: £4.09 Somewhat dated now, but a useful insight into the American perspective on world affairs in the late 1990s.
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 | The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.19 Pilger can be self-righteous, but his anger is genuine, and the facts presented here speak for themselves. (Don't be put off by the trashy title.)
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