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First published in 1927, "Oil!" is an unflinching portrayal of greed and betrayal by Pulitzer Prize winning author Upton Sinclair. Famous for his groundbreaking work "The Jungle", which exposed the horribly unsafe conditions in the American meatpacking industry, Sinclair turned his critical eye toward the immorality of the emerging oil-drilling business. Set in Southern California and inspired by the Teapot Dome Scandal, "Oil!" follows the fortunes...
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Kenneth E. Montague series in oil and business history volume no. 20
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[2007]
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2013.
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"The riveting, untold story of the men who are transforming global energy. In five years, the United States has seen a historic burst of oil and natural gas production, easing our insatiable hunger for energy. A new drilling process called fracking has made us the world's fastest growing energy power, on track to pass Saudi Arabia by 2020. But despite headlines and controversy, no previous book has shown how the revolution really happened. The Frackers...
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[2009]
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Nicole Torre interviews oil and petroleum company CEO's and top executives, and the mayors of Houston and Sweetwater, Texas. "Step inside the oil culture to understand just how the USA became so addicted and why Houston believes we must go 'Green' for a secure domestic energy future."--Container.
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Jay Porter novels volume 1
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In the tradition of Greg Iles and Dennis Lehane comes a powerful new voice in American fiction. Locke's debut thriller involves murder, greed, and redemption, set in the oil boomtown of 1980s Houston.
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"Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011, after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. A few months later the protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President Obama agreed to put the project on hold. And yet McKibben realized that this small and temporary victory was at...
10) Red chaos
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Red Hotel volume 3
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[2022]
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As the Arctic ice melts, Russian President Nicolai Gorshkov edges closer to gaining control over the world's oil industry and key shipping routes. With the global economy and national security at stake, one man--Dan Reilly, a State Department and CIA consultant--steps from the shadows. But can Reilly navigate years of intrigue, political power plays, business deals, and mysterious deaths to put a stop to Gorshkov's far-reaching plans before it's too...
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2013
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Oil and Gas ProcessingOil and Gas Exploration, Drilling, and ProductionGas LiquefactionOil RefiningOil and Gas InstrumentationOil and Gas Unit and Metric SystemOil and Gas PipeliningOil and Gas ManagementOil and Gas SafetyChemical Processing Industries.
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2022
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Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime...
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Uses the extraordinary account of how the biggest private company in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America. The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and U.S. Steel combined. Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers that make our food to the chemicals that make our pipes to the synthetics that make our carpets and diapers to the Wall Street trading in all these commodities....
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[2022]
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"Drawing from hundreds of confidential oil industry documents spanning decades, this explosive work of investigative reporting reveals for the first time the far-right conspiracy that's stopped the world from preventing the climate crisis. In The Petroleum Papers, investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki tells the story of how the American oil companies that founded the tar sands in Alberta, Canada--home to the third-biggest oil reserves on the planet--ignored...
17) The last jihad
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Jon Bennett is a senior White House advisor, but nothing has prepared him for the terror that he will face. Saddam Hussein dispatches his top hit men to assassinate the President of the United States. Iraqi terrorists spread carnage throughout London, Paris, and Riyadh ... and the Butcher of Baghdad has a nuclear ace in his hand that he has not yet played.
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"In 1892, Bryan Mealer's great-grandfather leaves the Georgia mountains and heads west into Texas, looking for wealth and adventure in the raw and open country. But his luck soon runs out. Beset by drought, the family loses their farm just as the dead pastures around them give way to one of the biggest oil booms in American history"--Provided by publisher.
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J.R. Ewing takes his last breath under very suspicious circumstances but not before stirring up a season's worth of Texas-size trouble. J.R. deviously guides his son, John Ross, in stealing the family business from Christopher and Bobby, while the ladies take their own sides. It's a season of must-see drama. J.R. and his Stetson are laid to rest, he's still calling the shots; bequeathing a legacy he calls his 'masterpiece,' which leaves the normally...
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"By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story, and ours."--
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