The United States' secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the mid-twentieth century is revealed in this "blistering expose", with a new introduction by the authors (Publishers Weekly). What...
Petroleum industry and trade
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Auteur:Coll, SteveSommaire:A larger-than-life account of family, greed, and a courtroom showdown between Big Oil rivals from the New York Times-bestselling author of Private Empire. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll is renowned for "his ability to take...
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Auteur:Mealer, BryanSommaire:This program is read by the author "Think of it as a Texas version of Hillbilly Elegy." -Bryan Burrough, New York Times bestselling author of The Big Reach and Barbarians at the Gate A brilliant audiobook saga of family, fortune, faith...
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Auteur:Rubin, JeffSommaire:Economist and resource analyst Jeff Rubin is certain that the world's governments are getting it wrong. Instead of moving us toward economic recovery, measures being taken around the globe right now are digging us into a deeper hole....
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Auteur:Burrough, BryanSommaire:Bryan Burrough reveals how four Texas oil tycoons transformed America. Rising from humble beginnings through hard work and shrewd dealings, they shifted the balance of power in American politics. While hobnobbing with movie stars and...
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Auteur:Takach, GeoSommaire:Tar Wars offers a critical inside look at how leading image-makers negotiate escalating tensions between continuous economic growth mandated by a globalized economic system and its unsustainable environmental costs. As place branding...
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Auteur:Nikiforuk, AndrewSommaire:At Trickle Creek in northern Alberta, Wiebo Ludwig thought he’d buffered his tiny religious community from civilization, but in 1990 civilization came calling. A Calgary oil company proposed to drill directly in view of the farm’s...
- Auteur:González, Pablo RafaelSommaire:
The shocking implications of a worldwide scarcity of natural resources have suddenly started to become clear. Higher prices for gas and heating oil may be a mere inconvenience so far; occasional brown-outs and water shortages can be...
- Auteur:Early, SteveSommaire:
Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of one hundred thousand suffered from poverty, pollution, and...
- Auteur:Poitras, JacquesSommaire:
The story of the rise and fall of the Energy East pipeline. The project was to be a monumental undertaking, beginning near Edmonton and stretching over four thousand kilometres, across two hundred First Nation reserves, through Montreal...
- Auteur:Watkins, G. Campbell, MacFadyen, AlanSommaire:
Winner of the 2014 Book of the Year Award from the Petroleum History Society! The importance of energy to the functioning of any economy has meant that energy industries are amongst the most regulated of industries. What might appear to...
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Auteur:Sinclair, UptonSommaire:Enraged by the oil scandals of the Harding administration in the 1920s, Sinclair tells a gripping tale of avarice, corruption, and class warfare, featuring a cavalcade of characters, including senators, oil magnates, Hollywood film...
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Auteur:Habila, HelonSommaire: - Auteur:Kiesling, LydiaSommaire:
A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden State. The year is 1998, the End of History. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is an American teenager...
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Auteur:Bercuson, David J., Herwig, Holger H.Sommaire:Long Night of the Tankers presents a fresh account of a lesser-known but critical component of the Atlantic naval theatre during World War II. Using war diaries, after-action reports, and first-hand accounts, authors Bercuson and Herwig...
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Auteur:Bercuson, David J., Herwig, Holger H.Sommaire:Long Night of the Tankers presents a fresh account of a lesser-known but critical component of the Atlantic naval theatre during World War II. Using war diaries, after-action reports, and first-hand accounts, authors Bercuson and Herwig...
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Auteur:Taylor, Graham D.Sommaire:For over 130 years, Imperial Oil dominated Canada's oil industry. Their 1947 discovery of crude oil in Leduc, Alberta transformed the industry and the country. But from 1899 onwards, two-thirds of the company was owned by an...
- Auteur:Eaton, Emily, Zink, ValerieSommaire:
Oil is not new to Saskatchewan. Many of the wells found on farmland across the province date back to the 1950s when the industry began to spread. But there is little doubt that the recent boom (2006–2014) and subsequent downturn in...
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Auteur:Zink, Valerie, Eaton, EmilySommaire:Oil is not new to Saskatchewan. Many of the wells found on farmland across the province date back to the 1950s when the industry began to spread. But there is little doubt that the recent boom (2006-2014) and subsequent downturn in...
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Energy in the Americas provides a hemispheric perspective on the historical construction of contemporary debates on the role of energy in society Understanding the history of energy and its evolving place of energy in society is...
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