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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Peter Maass:  book signing and discussion\nEvent Ur
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 Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Peter Maass\, who signs and discuss
 es his book\, Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil.\nIn Crude World: T
 he Violent Twilight of Oil\, writer and journalist Peter Maass brings us a
  stunning and revealing examination of oil's indelible impact on the count
 ries that produce it and the people who possess it. He takes us to Saudi A
 rabia\, where officials deflect inquiries about the amount of petroleum re
 maining in the country's largest reservoir\; to Equatorial Guinea\, where 
 two tennis courts grace an oil-rich dictator's estate but bandages and asp
 irin are a hospital's only supplies\; and to Venezuela\, where Hugo Ch&aac
 ute\;vez's campaign to redistribute oil wealth creates new economic and po
 litical crises.\nMaass also introduces us to Iraqi oilmen trying to rebuil
 d their industry after the invasion of 2003\, an American lawyer leading E
 cuadorians in an unprecedented lawsuit against Chevron\, a Russian oil bil
 lionaire imprisoned for his defiance of Vladimir Putin's leadership\, and 
 Nigerian villagers whose livelihoods are destroyed by the discovery of oil
 . Rebels\, royalty\, middlemen\, environmentalists\, indigenous activists\
 , CEOs&mdash\;their stories\, deftly and sensitively presented\, tell the 
 larger story of oil in our time.\nBrazos Bookstore and Brazos owner Matt S
 immons introduce Peter Maass for a reading and signing of this startling a
 nd essential account of the consequences of our addiction to oil.\nPeter M
 aass is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and has repor
 ted from the Middle East\, Asia\, South America and Africa. He has written
  as well for The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The Washington Post a
 nd Slate. Maass is the author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War\, which
  chronicled the Bosnian war and won prizes from the Overseas Press Club an
 d the Los Angeles Times. He lives in New York City.\n\nStart time: 7:00pm
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