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Series
Jay Porter novels volume 1
Language
English
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Attica Locke—a writer and producer of FOX's Empire—delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller)
Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel)
The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)
"A near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterizations, and action-oriented
...2) The formula
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
35 years after the disappearance of a formula developed by Germany during World War II to derive cheap, pollution-free gasoline from coal, a Los Angeles detective is on the brink of unearthing the secret which could change the couse of world history.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Bunny Glenn believes in climate change. But she also likes to get paid. The year is 1998. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is a lonely American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny’s bemused eyes, we watch global interests flock to her temporary backyard for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hearing rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the...
4) Extreme oil
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Portrays the challenges that face the oil industries and the consumers of the infinite products of oil. "The pipeline" follows the route of a pipeline linking the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and thus the global market. "The oil curse" contrasts the cases of Ecuador and western Africa, and looks at how the discovery of oil has affected the local population. "The wilderness" explores the tension between the world's desire for oil and existing...
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Language
English
Description
"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...
Author
Publisher
Post Carbon Institute
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Oil, Power, and War is a sweeping, unabashed history of oil, told by French journalist Matthieu Auzanneau. It provides a detailed account of the people and events that drove the oil industry from its earliest days, and takes a critical look at the way oil interests have commandeered politics and economies, changed cultures, disrupted power balances across the globe, and spawned wars. The author exposes the greed and reckless behavior--by a long line...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments, and multinational corporations, and until now, no book has set out to tell the story of this largely hidden world. The global fleet of some 11,000 tankers--that's...
8) Eclipse
Author
Language
English
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Description
The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case--the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murdering three PetroGlobal workers.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A five-alarm documentary that explores the shocking realities of the impending oil crisis. Drawing on an international cast of maverick energy experts and thinkers, they debunk the conventional wisdom that oil production will continue to climb and more.
10) Eyewitness oil
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of the oil industry, the ways in which oil is refined and processed, the uses of oil and oil products, the influence that the need for oil has on the world's current political situation, and the impact of oil byproducts on the environment.
Series
Nevada Bureau of Mines and geology volume Bulletin 104
Publisher
Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada
Pub. Date
19
Language
English
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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
An investigative journalist, drawing from hundreds of confidential oil industry documents spanning decades, reveals, for the first time, the far-right conspiracy that's stopped the world from preventing the climate crisis, and tells the high-stakes stories of people fighting back to get global emissions under control.
"Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is what top American oil executives were told by scientists in...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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A groundbreaking account of the failures that prevented the world from committing to taking measures against climate change documents key negotiations against a backdrop of 1980s history while explaining what the choices of the past mean for today's world.
Author
Series
Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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