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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler Publisher Comments James Howard Kunstler's The Long Emergency was an underground hit, going into nine printings of the hardcover edition. His shocking vision for our post-oil future caught the attention of environmentalists and business leaders and was the subject of much... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Oil Hunters: Exploration and Espionage in the Middle East by Roger Howard Publisher Comments The fascinating stories of the explorers, spies and entrepreneurs who led the hunt for oil in the Middle East from the 1880s to the outbreak of the Second World WarThe Middle East had long been awash with rumors and legends of oil, rumors that gradually... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Party's Over : Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Revised and Updated (Rev 05 Edition) by Richard Heinberg Publisher Comments The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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American Armageddon: How the Delusions of the Neoconservatives and the Christian Right Triggered the Descent of America--And Still Imperil by Craig Unger Publisher Comments The presidency of George W. Bush has led to the worst foreign policy decision in the history of the United States -- the bloody, unwinnable war in Iraq. How did this happen? Bush's fateful decision was rooted in events that began decades ago, and until... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia by Lutz Kleveman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-272) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Out of Gas: All You Need to Know about the End of the Age of Oil by David Goodstein Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-132) and index.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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In Deep Water: The Anatomy of a Disaster, the Fate of the Gulf, and Ending Our Oil Addiction by Peter Lehner Publisher Comments When Deepwater Horizon's well blew out on April 20, 2010, the resulting explosion claimed eleven lives. Over the next two months, an estimated 200 million gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico, a haven of biodiversity and one of the world's... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency by Michael Klare Publisher Comments In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-cold-war world. Now, in Blood and Oil, he concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--And What We Must Do to Stop It by Antonia Juhasz Publisher Comments Why are oil and gas prices so high? Who's really controlling those prices? How much oil is left? How far will Big Oil go to get it? And at what cost to the environment, human rights, the economy, worker safety, public health, and democracy... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak by Kenneth S. Deffeyes Publisher Comments “This book explains both why the decline of our most precious fuel is inevitable and how challenging it will be to cope with what comes next.”Richard E. Smalley, University Professor, Rice University, and 1996 Nobel laureate With world... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History #13: Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council by Joseph A Pratt Publisher Comments The National Petroleum Council (NPC) emerged out of the close cooperation between the petroleum industry and the federal government during World War II. In the last fifty-plus years, the Council has evolved into a voice of the marketplace, analyzing... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Oil Follies of 1970 1980 How the Petrole by Robert Sherrill List Price $19.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Oil, Divestiture, and National Security by Morris Albert Adelman List Price $4.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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