Praise for The Energy of Slaves : ". shocking and deeply enlightening .required reading for everyone who uses oil" --Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute, and author of The End of Growth and The Party's Over "A startling critique that should rouse us from our pipe dream of endless plenty." --Ronald Wright "[Nikiforuk's] plainspoken writing style is especially poignant as he gives voice to the devastating human experience of lost forests. Recommended." -- Library Journal "Nikiforuk leavens this tragic, instructive history with curious facts about the complex, intelligent insect .[his] florid language, affection for the beetles, and scorn for the humans in his story.lighten the tone of what in other hands could be an overwhelmingly depressing topic.

" -- Publishers Weekly ".packed with statistics, vivid descriptions of bark beetle life cycles, and portraits of scientists and forest managers struggling to cope with beetle colonies." --the Los Angeles Times ". Well written and informative. Summing Up: Highly recommended ." --CHOICE Current Reviews For Academic Libraries "Nikiforuk draws on interviews with scientists, foresters and rural residents to paint a nuanced picture of beetle outbreaks and their long-term implications." --Science News, Oct 7, 2011 "A terrific book on a terrifying subject. Empire of the Beetle is a chilling, fascinating, and important contribution to our understanding of a rapidly changing world.

" --John Vaillant, author of The Tiger Praise for Tar Sands : "Andrew Nikiforuk reveals the true costs of America's oil addiction. Tar Sands tells an important story with passion and wit ." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change " a slashing indictment of politicians in the back pockets of energy megacorporations , of regulators cowed into acquiescence, and of all of us who look the other way as we fill our gas tanks." --Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down "Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at what is happening in northern Alberta. To call this book a polemic is a compliment." --Margaret MacMillan, author of Paris 1919 "Nikiforuk offers a scathing critique of what he calls the corporate greed and regulatory indifference that have attended development of Canada's vast oil patch." --Green Blog, The New York Times.