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Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Except for the Dardanelles/Gallipoli campaigns, the extensive combat operations in the Middle East during World War I have been largely overlooked in documentary programs. Given the historical significance of the Ottoman Empire's demise in 1918, and the ongoing importance of Middle Eastern oil reserves to Western economies, a close study of this conflict provides two important lessons: 1. The Treaty of Versailles, agreed to by the Western Powers in...
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Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This timely book looks at the world's production of oil and our dependence on this natural resource. The majority of today's forms of transportation run on fuel that comes from oil, and hundreds of thousands of the items we use every day come from oil or oil-based products. Young readers will find out about the origins of oil and its first use in industry, and learn how it is found, mined, and processed into many different products that are used...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Venezuela's controversial president discusses his avowed anti-American stance, exploring how his position regarding big business, the Bush administration, and social reform have polarized his country during the years leading up to his re-election campaign.
11) Eclipse: a novel
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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.
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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"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?recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, more changes are expected.?From extra equipment, higher-cost insurance, and expensive technology to mandatory third-party inspections, costly delays, and shifting investments, analysts say the price tag of regulation will be stiff and...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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...
14) Oil
Publisher
Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints: Oil: Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints is a series that examines current issues from different viewpoints, set up in a pro/con format"--
Author
Series
Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story"--
17) Taliban oil
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This is the unknown story of secret negotiations between the Taliban and America to build a pipeline through Afghanistan. When America invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the stated aim was to dismantle Al-Qaeda, denying it a safe base of operations by removing the Taliban from power. But Al-Qaeda claimed that the attack on the Twin Towers was a response to the Bush administration’s threats to attack Afghanistan if its demands for pipeline rights were...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After centuries of Western domination, the waterways of the Middle East are now being contested in unprecedented ways. Pirates are roaming sea lanes. Local powers are threatening chokepoints. And the people are rising up to bring their authoritarian rulers down. With no simple solutions for maintaining control of oil flows, the West is facing a crucial decision. Already weakened by extended military interventions, faltering economies, and strained...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Drawing from hundreds of confidential oil industry documents spanning decades, this explosive work of investigative reporting reveals for the first time the far-right conspiracy that's stopped the world from preventing the climate crisis. In The Petroleum Papers, investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki tells the story of how the American oil companies that founded the tar sands in Alberta, Canada--home to the third-biggest oil reserves on the planet--ignored...
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