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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Traces the early twentieth-century rivalry between John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell, describing the origins of partners Marcus Samuel, Jr., and Henri Deterding and how they used their talents to break Rockefeller's daunting monopoly.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Melting ice, a military arms race, the rush to exploit resources at any cost--the Arctic is now the stage on which our future will be decided. And as temperatures rise and the ice retreats, Vladimir Putin orders Russia's oil rigs to move north. But one early September morning in 2013 thirty men and women from eighteen countries--the crew of Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise--decide to draw a line in the ice and protest the drilling in the Arctic. Thrown...
45) Blowout
Author
Series
Nate Osborne and Ashley Borden volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a top-secret research team is hired to develop a clean energy source to minimize America's dependence on foreign oil, Sheriff Nate Osborne and journalist Ashley Borden investigate a saboteur's attack on the experimental power station.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
In this thriller set in the Middle East of 1914, Somerville, a British archaeologist, and his team are excavating a long-buried Assyrian palace when an American geologist from an oil company posing as an archaeologist arrives one day and insinuates himself into Somerville's group. But he's not the only one working undercover to stake a claim on Iraq's rich oil fields.
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