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Enron: The Rise and Fall
"I'd say you were a carnival barker, except that wouldn't be fair tocarnival barkers. A carnie will at least tell you up front that he's running a shell game. You,...
Poisoned Legacy: The Human Cost of BP's Rise to Power
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing eleven workers and creating the largest oil spill in the history of U.S. offshore drilling, a spill that has...
Electrifying Sydney: A Hundred Years of EnergyAustralia
George Wilkenfeld and Peter Spearritt
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Shrouding themselves and their aims in deepest secrecy, the leaders of the Taliban movement control Afghanistan with an inflexible, crushing fundamentalism. The most extreme and radical of all Islamic organizations,...
Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War
Oil is the world's single most important commodity and its political effects are pervasive. Jeff D. Colgan extends the idea of the resource curse into the realm of international relations,...
Mirage: Power, Politics, And the Hidden History of Arabian Oil
Keating's authoritative narrative is based on years of research in original archives across the world. She explodes many myths, including the widely held notion that oil companies and geological experts...
The Decline of the Age of Oil: Petrol Politics: Australia's Road ahead
The book titled The Decline of the Age of Oil: Petrol Politics: Australia's Road ahead by the author Brian J. Fleay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century
'The Squeeze' is an invaluable account of the modern oil industry and vital to understanding the awful truth about the current disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. With unprecedented access...
Barbarians of Oil: How the World's Oil Addiction Threatens Global
An engaging look at the global oil industry and how to navigate the price volatility and new policies associated with it Oil is a constantly changing industry, and with the...
The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the
Remote, forbidding, and volatile, the Caspian Sea long tantalized the world with its vast oil reserves. But outsiders, blocked by the closed Soviet system, couldn t get to it. Then...
Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the
"Internal Combustion" is a compelling tale of the intrigue and manipulation that has led the world to an avoidable oil addiction that can be ended today. Using thousands of previously...
Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
Originally perceived as a cheap and plentiful source of power, the commercial use of nuclear energy has been controversial for decades. Worries about the dangers that nuclear plants and their...
Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage - Revised and Updated
Were the energy concerns of 2000 a preview of everyone's future? Will gas lines in the coming years make those of 1973 look short? Is the present chaos in oil...
The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market
The Asylum is a stunning expose by a seasoned Wall Street journalist that once and for all reveals the truth behind America's oil addiction in all its unscripted and dysfunctional...
Power Play: The Fight for Control of the World's Electricity
Noted author Sharon Beder argues persuasively that the track record of electricity privatisation and the deregulation around the world indicates that it is a confidence trick.
The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need
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After the fierce warnings and grim predictions of The Weather Makers and An Inconvenient Truth, acclaimed journalist and national bestselling author Chris Turner finds hope in the search for a...
Paying for the Piper: Capital and Labour in Britain's Offshore Oil
This book is an appraisal of current offshore industrial relations, and safety regulations instituted after the 1988 Alpha disaster in the North Sea. This text discusses the oil industry's attempts...
Beyond Business: An Inspirational Memoir From a Visionary Leader
Once a lacklustre organisation, BP became one of the world's biggest, most successful and most admired companies in the new millennium. John Browne, the company's CEO for 12 years, invented...
The Energy Disruption Triangle: Three Sectors That Will Change How We
A real-world guide for adapting to the new energy era The Energy Disruption Triangle is a treatise on the energy revolution's real-world impacts, and a handbook for anyone looking to...
Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of
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From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down The House , Rigged is the startling, rags-to-riches story of an Italian-American kid from the streets...
Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing
Since September 11th 2001 and the commencement of the war on terror', the world's attention has been focused on the relationship between US foreign policy in the Middle East and...
Power Trip: The Story of Energy
For centuries, human activity has been dominated by the need to fuel human civilization. Energy is unique: no other physical resource in society has had such a wide-ranging impact on...
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the
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Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source. 'Gripping' Economist 'Jaw-dropping' Sunday Times 'Riveting' Financial Times...
Let's Tax Carbon: And Other Ideas for a Better Australia
A new path for Australia, as laid out by eminent economist and author of the bestselling Superpower Could Australia become a full-employment, renewable-energy superpower? Ross Garnaut says yes, and it...
Slick: Australia's toxic relationship with Big Oil
A riveting expose of the global oil industry's multi-decade conspiracy to muddy the waters around the science of climate change and use the Australian government to undermine worldwide efforts to...
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs...She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse
'Great two-fisted writing from the far side of hell.' - John Birmingham, bestselling author of He Died with a Felafel in his Hand 'A unique look at a gritty game....
How We Are Hungry (EE)
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The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
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Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air And The Global Energy Crisis
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Jeedara: One Alliance, One Ancient People and an Expedition for the Greataustralian Bight
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Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom: Quarterly Essay 33
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All the Money in the World
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All the Money in the World
Author: John Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Inspired by the fortunes and misfortunes of the Getty family, whose most extraordinary and troubled episode - the kidnap and ransom...
Crude: The story of oil
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