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Author
Publisher
Portfolio Penguin
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
ix, 404 pages, [8] pages of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The riveting, untold story of the men who are transforming global energy. In five years, the United States has seen a historic burst of oil and natural gas production, easing our insatiable hunger for energy. A new drilling process called fracking has made us the world's fastest growing energy power, on track to pass Saudi Arabia by 2020. But despite headlines and controversy, no previous book has shown how the revolution really happened. The Frackers...
62) Teapot Dome
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1959
Physical Desc
306 p. : ill.
Language
English
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 533 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by actual events, Trust delves into the trials and triumphs of one of Americas wealthiest and unhappiest families, the Gettys. Equal parts family history, dynastic saga and an examination of the power of money, the show explores the complexities at the heart of every family, rich or poor. Told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty...
Author
Series
Coyote Canyon volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With her piercings, tattoos and spiky blond hair, Ellen Truesdale doesn't quite fit in with the other folks in Coyote Canyon--and that's just fine with her. She's only here to put her father out of business, as payback for abandoning her when she was young. Or is she more interested in finally proving that she was worth keeping? Either way, she's struggling to keep her rival well-drilling company afloat. And being a single woman in a male-dominated...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
76 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of the 1914 disappearance of eleven-year-old Sarah Rector, an African American who was part of the Creek Indian people and whose land had made her wealthy, and what it reveals about race, money, and American society.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 334 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A critical indictment of the Bush administration's Iraq war spending reveals the significant differences between the war's estimated and actual costs, arguing that reconstruction attempts have failed at the expense of thousands of lives and billions of dollars.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An assessment of the events that led up to Jimmy Carter's infamous 1979 "malaise" speech places it against a backdrop of such events as the gas crisis and the Iran-hostage situation while explaining that the speech had far greater relevance than its reception reflected.
Author
Series
Inspector Darko Dawson mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At Cape Three Points on the beautiful Ghanaian coast, a canoe washes up at an oil rig site. The two bodies in the canoe--who turn out to be a prominent, wealthy, middle-aged married couple--have obviously been murdered; the way Mr. Smith-Aidoo has been gruesomely decapitated suggests the killer was trying to send a specific message--but what, and to whom, is a mystery. The Smith-Aidoos, pillars in their community, are mourned by everyone, but especially...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
360 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The 'top undercover journalist in America and the funniest' (Randi Rhodes, Air America), hangs out the dirty underpants of the 'armed and dangerous clowns that rule us.' Feared from corporate suites to Osama's cave, Palast's old-style gumshoe detective work to dig out the info on the War on Terror, greed-dripping schemes to seize little nations with lots of oil, the hidden program to steal the 2008 election, and the media biases that keep it unreported...
74) Crude: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Graphic Mundi
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
125 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A graphic novel exploring Texaco's involvement in the Amazon, as well as the ensuing legal battles between the oil company, the Ecuadorian government, and the region's inhabitants, from the perspective of Ecuadorian lawyer and activist Pablo Fajardo"--
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