Author: Sonia Shah
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Keywords: oil, story, crude
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 1583226257
ISBN-13: 9781583226254
“Riveting. [Crude] is an informative, startling, and necessary book.”—Roy Morrison, author of Ecological DemocracyCrude is the unexpurgated story of oil, from the circumstances of its birth millions of years ago to the spectacle of its rise as the indispensable ingredient of modern life. In addition to fueling our SUVs and illuminating our cities, crude oil and its byproducts fertilize our produce, pave our roads, and make plastic possible. “Newborn babies,” observes author Sonia Shah, “slide from their mothers into petro-plastic-gloved hands, are swaddled in petro-polyester blanke
Author: Sonia Shah
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Keywords: oil, story, crude
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1583227237
ISBN-13: 9781583227237
Author: Peter Maa
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: oil, twilight, violent, world, crude
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-09-22
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 1400041694
ISBN-13: 9781400041695
A Q&A with Peter Maass Question: What initially got you interested in the story of oil? Peter Maass: Much of my writing life involved wars, and oil was often mentioned. "It’s all about oil," I was told. Or, "It’s not about oil at all." Oil is central to our world, but what role does it play in violent conflicts and the divide between rich and poor? My initial work began before 9/11 and when I searched Amazon.com for books on oil, the proffered list included more tomes on salad dressing and aromatherapy than on the liquid that was the oxygen of the global economy. Some excellent b
Author: J. R. Becker
Publisher: Pennwell Books
Keywords: asphaltenes, emulsions, waxes, oil, crude
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 1997-11
List price: $89.00
ISBN-10: 0878147373
ISBN-13: 9780878147373
Explains the physical chemical problems associated with waxes and emulsions and the new technologies for treatment of oilfield emulsions and wax problems. DLC: Petroleum - Refining - Dewaxing.
Author: Rafael Kandiyoti
Publisher: I. B. Tauri
Keywords: politics, crude, oil, flowing, pipelines
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-06-15
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 184511390X
ISBN-13: 9781845113902
Oil and natural gas are now acknowledged to be the driving forces of international politics. What has not yet been fully explored is how their delivery affects the geopolitics of the world. For pipelines, once built, create new diplomatic realities--some states are newly connected, others isolated. Some states benefit economically--others lose out. Often new energy supply routes fall across political fault-lines, as in the case of India and Pakistan. In the case of the former Soviet Union, the existing pipeline network reflects an old political reality, and causes tension between the newly ind
Author: Prospero T Junior
Publisher: Prospero T Junior
Keywords: lewd, nude, rude, crude
Number of Pages: 58
Published: 2009-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0956221505
ISBN-13: 9780956221506
Author: Linda Mcquaig
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Keywords: american, way, war, gas, dude, greed, crude
Number of Pages: 369
Published: 2006-09-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0312360061
ISBN-13: 9780312360061
George W. Bush says he invaded Iraq to bring democracy to the Middle East. Some people believe that. But if you have nagging doubts, you’ll be intrigued by the story unraveled in It’s the Crude, Dude. With all the drama of a thriller, Canadian bestselling author Linda McQuaig probes the mystery of what really lay behind the U.S. invasion of Iraq. She points to Washington’s desire to gain control of the most spectacular untapped oil bonanza on Earth--even as rapidly dwindling worldwide oil reserserves threaten to turn competition for crude into the major international battleg
