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Author
Series
Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Jay Porter novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
430 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
23) Syriana
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.; [2-disc].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies. Across the globe, a disenfranchised...
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rock-solid argument that the era of cheap oil is in the past. Goes deep into the uncomfortable realities of a world that is both addicted to fossil fuels and blissfully unaware of the looming "peak oil" crisis. Debunks the conventional wisdom that oil production will continue to climb, and instead stares bleakly at a planet facing economic meltdown and conflict over its most valuable resource.
Author
Publisher
Post Carbon Institute
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiv, 650 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A leading activist presents a report on the U.S. oil industry to argue that oil companies hold an unparalleled influence over the government, are not appropriately regulated, and are misrepresenting the truth about the causes of high gasoline prices.
Author
Series
Montague history of oil volume no. 4
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
xiii, 243 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
34) Warrior class
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
xii, 449 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
36) The first billion is the hardest: reflections on a life of comebacks and America's energy future
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
260 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At 80, T. Boone Pickens is a legendary figure. Known as the 'Oracle of Oil' because of his uncanny ability to predict fuel prices, he built Mesa Petroleum, one of the largest independent oil companies in the United States, from a $2,500 investment. In the 1980s, Pickens executed a series of unsolicited buyouts of undervalued oil companies, reinventing the notion of shareholders' rights. When Pickens left Mesa at 68 after a downward spiral, many counted...
37) Hunter killer
Author
Series
U.S. Navy series volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 453 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a rogue Saudi Arabian prince plots a coup d'etat with the assistance of the French, American admiral Arnold Morgan is assigned to counter the work of terrorist Ravi Rashood in the face of mounting international opposition.
38) Blowout
Author
Publisher
Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
13 CDs (15 hrs. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rachel Maddow 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 spreading...
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