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Crude: The Story of Oil
Sonia Shah
$5.44

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"Shah...has written a book that couldn't be more relevant." -USA Today

"Required reading for all who care about the future of this country and the planet as a whole."- The Nation

"This is not a Michael Moore-style anti-corporate rant-Shah writes beautifully, with dispassionate, elegant clarity-and it is all the more powerful for it."- The Guardian (UK)

"Shah has that crisp writing style and that knack for deploying statistics judiciously, rather than maniacallymost rewarding."-The Age (Melbourne, Australia)

"Riveting...[Crude] is an informative, startling, and necessary book."-Roy Morrison, author of Ecological Democracy

"The facts and figures of the world's most important energy resource come alive[Shah] helps us understand the energy subsidy oil gives our society, how our economy is dependent on it, and what the real ramifications are of turning the key in the ignition."-Julian Darley, author of High Noon for Natural Gas

Now newly revised and updated, Crude is the story of the black gold that eclipsed King Coal, decisively won the Great War, and propelled the West from the Industrial Revolution to the Plastic Age. Sonia Shah elegantly weaves together the science, economics, politics, and social history of oil in her inimitable telling.

A former editor at South End Press and Nuclear Times magazine, Sonia Shah is an independent journalist whose writing has appeared in The Nation, Playboy, The Ecologist, Orion, and Salon.

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Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
Suzana Sawyer
$20.00

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Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it necessitates. Crude Chronicles traces the emergence during the 1990s of a highly organized indigenous movement and its struggles against a U.S. oil company and Ecuadorian neoliberal policies. Against the backdrop of mounting government attempts to privatize and liberalize the national economy, Suzana Sawyer shows how neoliberal reforms in Ecuador led to a crisis of governance, accountability, and representation that spurred one of twentieth-century Latin America’s strongest indigenous movements.

Through her rich ethnography of indigenous marches, demonstrations, occupations, and negotiations, Sawyer tracks the growing sophistication of indigenous politics as Indians subverted, re-deployed, and, at times, capitulated to the dictates and desires of a transnational neoliberal logic. At the same time, she follows the multiple maneuvers and discourses that the multinational corporation and the Ecuadorian state used to circumscribe and contain indigenous opposition. Ultimately, Sawyer reveals that indigenous struggles over land and oil operations in Ecuador were as much about reconfiguring national and transnational inequality—that is, rupturing the silence around racial injustice, exacting spaces of accountability, and rewriting narratives of national belonging—as they were about the material use and extraction of rain-forest resources.

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Oilfield Processing: Crude Oil (Oilfield Processing of Petroleum)
Richard E. Thompson
$79.96

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This second volume from Manning and Thompson covers process descriptions, designs methods, operating procedures, and troubleshooting in great detail. Nearly every chapter is concluded with review questions and practical numerical problems. Like Volume One, this new text is the definitive source on its topic and contains numerous diagrams and appendices, as well as case histories. Following the format set forth in their first volume, the authors have included a glossary of terms and list of abbreviations as well as conversion units. Volume Two covers phase separation, firetube heaters, energy conservation, instrumentation and process control as well as pressure relief and flaring. Contents: Introduction and scope; Characterization of crude oil; Phase behavior of crude oil; Water-in-crude-oil emulsions; Field processing of crude oil; Separation of gas, oil and water; Dehydration of crude oil; Desalting of crude oil; Crude sweeting & stabilization; Pumps; Measurement of crude oil; Fire heaters; Pipeline transportation; Energy conservation; Instrumentation and process control; Pressure relief and flaring; Case histories; Appendices.

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Crude Reflections / Cruda Realidad: Oil, Ruin and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest (English and Spanish Edition)
Kayana Szymczak
$14.38

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Crude Reflections chronicles the human and environmental impact of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where the pollution is so extensive that medical experts currently predict thousands of deaths from cancer and the disappearance of five indigenous rainforest communities.

Photographers Lou Dematteis and Kayana Szymczak have documented the physical and emotional reality of those affected by this toxic contamination, roughly thirty times greater than the more widely reported Exxon Valdez oil spill. Their powerful images are accompanied by moving first-person testimonies from the victims, and the uplifting story of efforts by local communities to seek justice and to prevent further drilling.

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Amazon Crude Oil (Ecuador Rain Forests At Risk)
Various
$289.35

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Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize
Duncan Clarke
$35.29

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“If you read just one book on oil this year let it be by Duncan Clarke.”—Michael Holman, former Africa editor, Financial Times

"This is much more than just another book about oil. Clarke's experience and grasp of the history of African oil and its recent growth is captured in this astute study..."—Tony Hawkins, Financial Times

One of the world’s leading strategists on global oil exploration turns his critical eye to Africa’s oil prize to produce this definitive account of the issues and misunderstandings in Africa’s oil and gas game.

Duncan Clarke is a leading thinker, writer, and speaker on corporate strategy and geopolitical issues in the oil industry. Chairman and CEO of Global Pacific & Partners, he was previously an economist and advisor, with a focus on strategy, in the worldwide upstream industry.

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Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940
Paul Sabin
$8.63

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Energy shortages, climate change, and the debate over national security have thrust oil policy to the forefront of American politics. How did Americans grow so dependent on petroleum, and what can we learn from our history that will help us craft successful policies for the future? In this timely and absorbing book, Paul Sabin challenges us to see politics and law as crucial forces behind the dramatic growth of the U.S. oil market during the twentieth century. Using pre-World War II California as a case study of oil production and consumption, Sabin demonstrates how struggles in the legislature and courts over property rights, regulatory law, and public investment determined the shape of the state's petroleum landscape. Sabin provides a powerful corrective to the enduring myth of "free markets" by demonstrating how political decisions affected the institutions that underlie California's oil economy and how the oil market and price structure depend significantly on the ways in which policy questions were answered before World War II. His concise and probing analysis casts fresh light on the historical relationship between business and government and on the origins of contemporary problems such as climate change and urban sprawl. Incisive, engaging, and meticulously researched, Crude Politics illuminates an important chapter in U.S. environmental, legal, business, and political history and the history of the American West. Illustrations: 19 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations, 2 maps

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Crude Power: Politics and the Oil Market (Library of International Relations)
Oystein Noreng
$22.08

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Crude Oil Waxes, Emulsions, and Asphaltenes
J. R. Becker
$69.85

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Explains the physical chemical problems associated with waxes and emulsions and the new technologies for treatment of oilfield emulsions and wax problems. DLC: Petroleum - Refining - Dewaxing.

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Crude Existence: Environment and the Politics of Oil in Northern Angola (Global, Area, and International Archive)
Kristin Reed
$34.95

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After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. But oil extraction--both on- and offshore--is a toxic remedy for the country's economic ills, with devastating effects on both the environment and traditional livelihoods. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, Kristin Reed explores the exclusion, degradation, and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.