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1) Eclipse
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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.
2) Oil!
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English
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By turns an ardent family saga, scintillating potboiler, and anti-capitalist tirade, Oil! ranks among the most important critiques of fossil energy ever printed. This edition features a contextual introduction by Michael Tondre, which will illuminate the novel's urgent timeliness in our warming world--
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English
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With world oil production about to peak and inexorably head toward steep decline, what fuels are available to meet rising global energy demands? That question, once thought to address a fairly remote contingency, has become ever more urgent, as a spate of books has drawn increased public attention to the imminent exhaustion of the economically vital world oil reserves. Kenneth S. Deffeyes, a geologist who was among the first to warn of the coming...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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The US coal industry mines approximately 1 billion tons of coal each year. More than 90 million acres of the nation's farmland are dedicated to growing corn. The US steel industry produces enough steel in a single week to build the Golden Gate Bridge 20 times over. Big Business provides critical contributions to modern life. Coal and oil have powered the world for more than a century. Crops such as corn and sugar feed millions of people and fuel automobiles....
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English
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Thriller master and New York Times bestselling author Patrick Robinson presents a startling if all-too-real scenario that pits the United States against France and Saudi Arabia
Always on the cutting edge of global political and military events, Robinson offers his most epic stunner yet. A rogue Saudi Arabian prince, disgusted by the royal family's profligate ways, plans a coup d'etat. He surreptitiously enlists the help of the French, who appoint...
8) Oil crisis
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Series
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Oil has changed the world. This resource is arguably the foundation of modern civilization. Oil, however, is not a clean energy source. Using oil creates pollution. Getting oil from the ground can also harm the environment. Learn more about these issues in Oil Crisis, a Global Issues book."--Back cover.
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English
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Petroleum is so deeply entrenched in our economy, politics, and daily lives that even modest efforts to phase it out, are fought tooth and nail. Companies and governments depend on oil revenues. Developing nations see oil as their only means to industrial success. And, the Western middle class refuses to modify its energy-dependent lifestyle.
But, even by conservative estimates, we will have burned through most of the world's accessible oil within...
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English
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Author Erika Bolstad was shocked to learn she had inherited mineral rights in North Dakota in the throes of an oil bonanza. Determined to unearth the story behind her unexpected inheritance, she followed the trail to her great-grandmother, Anna, who her family had painted to be a courageous homesteader who paved her way in the unforgiving American West. But, Bolstad discovers a darker truth about Anna than her family had ever shared. With journalistic...
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Series
Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 16
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs trying to revive a dying field, Kurt, Joe and NUMA are tapped by the President of the United States to find out why many of the world's most productive oilfields have gone dry. The trail leads them to Tessa Franco, a brilliant billionaire in the alternative energy field. Tessa's goal is the end of the oil age; her company has spent billions developing the most powerful and efficient...
15) Sea of greed
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs trying to revive a dying field, Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Projects Team are tapped by the President of the United States to find out what's gone wrong. The trail leads them to a brilliant billionaire in the alternative energy field. Her goal is the end of the oil age; her company has spent billions developing the worlds' most advanced fuel-cell systems. But is she an environmental...
Author
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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...
18) Outsider
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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Description
Former black ops CIA operative Colby Lane, now retired from his wild years as a mercenary, has found his new calling as assistant chief of security for the mammoth Ritter Oil Corporation. All he wants is a new start. What he discovers, though, is t
Former black ops CIA operative Colby Lane, now retired from his wild years as a mercenary, has found his new calling as assistant chief of security for the mammoth Ritter Oil Corporation. All he wants...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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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