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Oil and the Environment
     General Environmental Effects of Oil Drilling
     and Refining
     Oil Spills
Oil in Economic and Political Development and Social Change
     In the United States
     Around the World
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Oil and the Environment

     General Environmental Effects of Oil Drilling and Refining
     Oil Spills

Oil and the Environment: General Environmental Effects of Oil Drilling and Refining

The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 10,000 Years of Earth's Climate
David Archer
ISBN-13: 9780691148113 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781400828760
Princeton University Press, 2009
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Oil, Water, and Climate: An Introduction
Catherine Gautier
ISBN-13: 9780521709194 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2008
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Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, And Technological Change In The U.S. Petroleum Industry
Hugh S. Gorman
ISBN-13: 9781884836749 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781884836756 (paper)
University of Akron Press, 2001
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Challenged by Carbon: The Oil Industry and Climate Change
Bryan Lovell
ISBN-13: 9780521145596 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast
Martin V. Melosi, Joseph Pratt, editors
ISBN-13: 9780822943358 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822959632 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007
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A Prosperous Way Down
Howard T. Odum, Elisabeth C. Odum
ISBN-13: 9780870819087 (paper)
University Press of Colorado, 2008
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The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment
Benjamin Ross, Steven Amter
ISBN-13: 9780199739950 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2010
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Saving Louisiana?: The Battle For Coastal Wetlands
Bill Streever
ISBN-13: 9781578063482 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 2001
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Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction
Terry Tamminen
ISBN-13: 9781597265065 (paper)
Island Press, 2008
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American Energy, Imperiled Coast: Oil and Gas Development in Louisiana’s Wetlands
Jason P. Theriot
ISBN-13: 9780807155172 (cloth)
Louisiana State University Press, April 2014

Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale
Tom Wilber
ISBN-13: 9780801450167 (cloth)
Cornell University Press, 2012

Oil and the Environment: Oil Spills

Sustainable Failures: Environmental Policy and Democracy in a Petro-dependent World
Sherry Cable
ISBN-13: 9781439908990 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781439909003 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781439909010
Temple University Press, 2012

Red Light to Starboard: Recalling the Exxon Valdez Disaster
Angela Day
ISBN-13: 9780874223187 (paper)
Washington State University Press, 2014

Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America
William Freudenburg, Robert Gramling
ISBN-13: 9780262015837 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780262517294 (paper)
MIT Press, 2010

Black Tides
Miles O. Hayes
ISBN-13: 9780292731240 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2000
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Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters
Leslie Irvine
ISBN-13: 9781592138340 (cloth)
Temple University Press, 2009

Oil and Water: Media Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and The Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Andrea Miller, Shearon Roberts, Victoria LaPoe
ISBN-13: 9781617039720 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, May 2014

Oil in the Environment: Legacies and Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
John A. Wiens, editor
ISBN-13: 9781107614697 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781107273252
Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Oil in Economic and Political Development and Social Change

     In the United States
     Around the World

Oil in Economic and Political Development and Social Change: In the United States

Alternative Fuels for Military Applications
James T. Bartis, Lawrence Van Bibber
ISBN-13: 9780833050007 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2011
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Oil and Wilderness in Alaska: Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, and National Policy Dynamics
George J. Busenberg
ISBN-13: 9781589016620 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781589016637
Georgetown University Press, 2013

Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won
Perry Bush
ISBN-13: 9781606351178 (cloth)
Kent State University Press, 2012

Claytie: The Roller-Coaster Life of a Texas Wildcatter
Mike Cochran
ISBN-13: 9781585446346 (cloth)
Texas A&M University Press, 2007
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Drilling Ahead: The Quest For Oil In the Deep South, 1945-2005
Alan Cockrell
ISBN-13: 9781578068111 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2005
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The Option of an Oil Tax to Fund Transportation and Infrastructure
Keith Crane, Nicholas Burger, and Martin Wachs
ISBN-13: 9780833051783 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2011
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Early California Oil: A Photographic History, 1865-1940
Kenny A. Franks, Paul F. Lambert
ISBN-13: 9780890969892 (paper)
Texas A&M University Press, 1985
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Early Louisiana and Arkansas Oil: A Photographic History, 1901-1946
Kenny A. Franks
ISBN-13: 9780890969908 (paper)
Texas A&M University Press, 1982
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Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920
Brian Frehner
ISBN-13: 9780803234864 (cloth)
University of Nebraska Press, 2011

Early Texas Oil: A Photographic History, 1866-1936
Walter Rundell Jr.
ISBN-13: 9780890969915 (paper)
Texas A&M University Press, 2000
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Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century
Stephanie LeMenager
ISBN-13: 9780199899425 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2014

Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers: Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields
Gerald Lynch
ISBN-13: 9780292770522 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1987
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Bless the Pure and Humble: Texas Lawyers and Oil Regulation, 1919-1936
Nicholas G. Malavis
ISBN-13: 9780890967140 (cloth)
Texas A&M University Press, 1996
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Done in Oil: An Autobiography
J. Howard Marshall II
ISBN-13: 9780890969878 (paper)
Texas A&M University Press, 1994
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“King of the Wildcatters”: The Life and Times of Tom Slick, 1883-1930
Ray Miles
ISBN-13: 9781585443994 (paper)
Texas A&M University Press, 1996
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Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895-1945
Roger M. Olien, Diana Davids Olien
ISBN-13: 9780292760561 (cloth)
University of Texas Press, 2002
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Wildcatters: Texas Independent Oilmen
Roger M. Olien, Diana Davids Hinton
ISBN-13: 9781585446063 (paper)
Texas A&M University Press, 2007
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Following Oil: Four Decades of Cycle-Testing Experiences and What They Foretell about U.S. Energy Independence
Thomas A. Petrie
ISBN-13: 9780806144207 (cloth)
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014

Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889-1909
Jonathan W. Singer
ISBN-13: 9781585441600 (cloth)
Texas A&M University Press, 2002
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Oilfield Trash: Life and Labor in the Oil Patch
Bobby D. Weaver
ISBN-13: 9781603442053 (cloth)
Texas A&M University Press, 2010
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Hydrocarbon Hucksters: Lessons from Louisiana on Oil, Politics, and Environmental Justice
Ernest Zebrowski, Mariah Zebrowski Leach
ISBN-13: 9781617038990 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2014

Oil in Economic and Political Development and Social Change: Around the World

Oil Wealth in Central Africa: Policies for Inclusive Growth
Bernardin Akitoby, Sharmini Coorey
ISBN-13: 9781616353766 (paper)
IMF Publications, 2012
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Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: The Tragedy of Endowment
Abiodun Alao
ISBN-13: 9781580462679 (cloth)
University of Rochester Press, 2007
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British Petroleum and Global Oil 1950–1975: The Challenge of Nationalism
James Bamberg
ISBN-13: 9780521785150 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2000
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Foreign Investment and Political Regimes: The Oil Sector in Azerbaijan, Russia, and Norway
Oksan Bayulgen
ISBN-13: 9780521425889 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 2010
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Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America
Anthony Bebbington, Jeffrey Bury, editors
ISBN-13: 9780292748620 (cloth)
University of Texas Press, 2013

Living with Oil: Promises, Peaks, and Declines on Mexico’s Gulf Coast
Lisa Breglia
ISBN-13: 9780292744615 (cloth)
University of Texas Press, 2013

The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century
Jonathan C. Brown, Alan Knight, editors
ISBN-13: 9780292722538 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1992
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Canada's Victorian Oil Town
Christina Burr
ISBN-13: 9780773531123 (cloth)
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006
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Finders Keepers? How the Law of Capture Shaped the World Oil Industry
Terence Daintith
ISBN-13: 9781933115849 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781933115832 (paper)
Resources for the Future/RFF Press, 2010
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Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond
Christopher M. Davidson
ISBN-13: 9780231701068 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780231701075 (paper)
Columbia University Press, 2009

Fiscal Policy Formulation and Implementation in Oil-Producing Countries
Jeffrey M. Davis, Rolando Ossowski, Annalisa Fedelino
ISBN-13: 9781589061750 (paper)
IMF Publications, 2003
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Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold
Mahmoud A. El-Gamal, Amy Myers Jaffe
ISBN-13: 9780521720700 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility: Oil Multinationals and Social Challenges
Jedrzej George Frynas
ISBN-13: 9780521868440 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780521175395 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780511537172
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Money, Oil, and Empire in the Middle East: Sterling and Postwar Imperialism, 1944–1971
Steven G. Galpern
ISBN-13: 9780521767903 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia
Marshall I. Goldman
ISBN-13: 9780195398632 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2009
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The Politics of Mexican Oil
George W. Grayson
ISBN-13: 9780822953234 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981
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Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia
Thane Gustafson
ISBN-13: 9780674066472 (cloth)
Harvard University Press, 2012

Oil, Democracy, and Development in Africa
John R. Heilbrunn
ISBN-13: 9781107049819 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781139899420
Cambridge University Press, April 2014

Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia
Steffen Hertog
ISBN-13: 9780801477515 (paper)
Cornell University Press, 2010
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Globalizing Oil: Firms and Oil Market Governance in France, Japan, and the United States
Llewelyn Hughes
ISBN-13: 9781107041998 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, April 2014

From Windfall to Curse? Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present
Jonathan Di John
ISBN-13: 9780271035536 (cloth)
Penn State University Press, 2009
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Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia
Toby Craig Jones
ISBN-13: 9780674049857 (cloth)
Harvard University Press, 2010

In the Time of Oil: Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town
Mandana E. Limbert
ISBN-13: 9780804756273 (paper)
Stanford University Press, 2010
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Oil Wealth and the Poverty of Politics: Algeria Compared
Miriam R. Lowi
ISBN-13: 9780521113182 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781107402966 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780511687181
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Oil Is Not a Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States
Pauline Jones Luong, Erika Weinthal
ISBN-13: 9780521765770 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780521148085 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2010
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The Violence of Petrodollar Regimes: Algeria, Iraq, and Libya
Luis Martinez
ISBN-13: 9780231703024 (cloth)
Columbia University Press, 2012

Joyriding in Riyadh: Oil, Urbanism, and Road Revolt
Pascal Menoret
ISBN-13: 9781107035485 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781107641952 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, April 2014

The Central Asian Economies since Independence
Richard Pomfret
ISBN-13: 9780691124650 (cloth)
Princeton University Press, 2006
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The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
Michael L. Ross
ISBN-13: 9780691145457 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780691159638 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781400841929
Princeton University Press, 2012

Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador
Suzanna Sawyer author info
ISBN-13: 9780822332831 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822332725 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2004
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The Oil Makers
Jeffrey Share
ISBN-13: 9781585440399 (paper)
Texas A&M University Press, 1996

Beyond the Curse: Policies to Harness the Power of Natural Resources
Amadou Sy, Rabah Arezki, Thorvaldur Gylfason
ISBN-13: 9781616351458 (paper)
IMF Publications, 2012
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Managing the Oil Revenue Boom: The Role of Fiscal Institutions
Theo Thomas, Paulo A. Medas, Rolando Ossowski, Mauricio Villafuerte
ISBN-13: 9781589067189 (paper)
IMF Publications, 2008

Security and Profit in China’s Energy Policy: Hedging Against Risk
Øystein Tunsjø
ISBN-13: 9780231165082 (cloth)
Columbia University Press, 2013

Oil Sparks in the Amazon: Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources
Patricia I. Vásquez
ISBN-13: 9780820345611 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820345628 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780820346380
University of Georgia Press, 2014

Oil and Governance: State-Owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply
David G. Victor, David R. Hults, Mark C. Thurber, editors
ISBN-13: 9781107004429 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781139200370
Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Oil in International Relations

Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia
Rachel Bronson
ISBN-13: 9780195367058 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2008
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The Oil Prince’s Legacy: Rockefeller Philanthropy in China
Mary Brown Bullock
ISBN-13: 9780804776882 (cloth)
Stanford University Press, 2011

Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War
Jeff D. Colgan
ISBN-13: 9781107654976 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2013

Imported Oil and U.S. National Security
Keith Crane, Andreas Goldthau, Michael Toman, Thomas Light, Stuart E. Johnson, Alireza Nader, Angel Rabasa, Harun Dogo
ISBN-13: 9780833047007 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2009
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Over a Barrel: The Costs of U.S. Foreign Oil Dependence
John S. Duffield
ISBN-13: 9780804754996 (cloth)
Stanford University Press, 2008
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Imagery and Ideology in U.S. Policy Toward Libya, 1969–1982
Mahmoud G. ElWarfally
ISBN-13: 9780822985075 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988
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Oil and Mexican Foreign Policy
George W. Grayson
ISBN-13: 9780822985051 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988
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Oil, Islam and Conflict: Central Asia Since 1945
Rob Johnson
ISBN-13: 9781861893390 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781861894564
University of Chicago Press, distributed for Reaktion Books, 2007
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Promoting International Energy Security, Volume 4: The Gulf of Guinea
Stuart E. Johnson, Caroline Baxter, James T. Bartis, Duncan Long
ISBN-13: 9780833068446 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2012

Energy and Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy
Jan H. Kalicki, David L. Goldwyn, editors author info
ISBN-13: 9780801882784 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780801882791 (paper)
Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

Turkish-Iranian Relations in a Changing Middle East
F. Stephen Larrabee, Alireza Nader, ,
ISBN-13: 9780833080110 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2013

Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Cooperation: The Reality and Implications
Keun-Wook Paik
ISBN-13: 9780199656356 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2012

United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War I
Stephen J. Randall
ISBN-13: 9780773529236 (paper)
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007
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Queen of the Oil Club: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information
Anna Rubino
ISBN-13: 9780807072776 (cloth)
Beacon Press, 2008
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Oil, Profits, and Peace: Does Business Have a Role in Peacemaking?
Jill Shankleman
ISBN-13: 9781929223985 (paper)
United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006
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Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
ISBN-13: 9780231702263 (cloth)
Columbia University Press, 2011

America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
Robert Vitalis
ISBN-13: 9780804754460 (cloth)
Stanford University Press, 2006
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Promoting International Energy Security, Volume 2: Turkey and the Caspian
Andrew S. Weiss, F. Stephen Larrabee, James T. Bartis, Camille A. Sawak
ISBN-13: 9780833058904 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2012

Oil for Food: The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East
Eckart Woertz
ISBN-13: 9780199659487 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2013

Crude Awakenings: Global Oil Security and American Foreign Policy
Steve A. Yetiv author info
ISBN-10: 0801442680 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780801442681 (cloth)
Cornell University Press, 2004

The Petroleum Triangle: Oil, Globalization, and Terror
Steve A. Yetiv author info
ISBN-13: 9780801450020 (cloth)
Cornell University Press, 2011
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Oil and Energy Crises

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: U.S. Energy Security and Oil Politics, 1975-2005
Bruce A. Beaubouef
ISBN-13: 9781585446001 (cloth)
Texas A&M University Press, 2007
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The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity
Paul Collier
ISBN-13: 9780195395259 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2010
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A Cubic Mile of Oil: Realities and Options for Averting the Looming Global Energy Crisis
Hewitt Crane, Edwin Kinderman, Ripudaman Malhotra
ISBN-13: 9780195325546 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2010
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Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage, New Edition
Kenneth S. Deffeyes
ISBN-13: 9780691141190 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781400829071
Princeton University Press, 2008
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Integrating U.S. Climate, Energy, and Transportation Policies
Lisa Ecola, Scott Hassell, Michael Toman, Martin, Wachs,
ISBN-13: 9780833046703 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2009
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Global Energy Shifts: Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age
Bruce Podobnik
ISBN-13: 9781592132942 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2005

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability
Daniel Sperling, Deborah Gordon, Arnold Schwarzenegger
ISBN-13: 9780199737239 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2010
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Drilling Methods and Technologies

Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century
David P. Billington, David P. Billington Jr.
ISBN-13: 9780691102924 (cloth)
Princeton University Press, 2006
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Breaking Ice for Arctic Oil: The Epic Voyage of the SS Manhattan Through the Northwest Passage
Ross Coen
ISBN-13: 9781602231696 (paper)
University of Alaska Press, 2012

Inverse Theory for Petroleum Reservoir Characterization and History Matching
Dean S. Oliver, Albert C. Reynolds, Ning Liu
ISBN-13: 9780521881517 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 2008
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The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil’s Search for Petroleum in Postwar America
Tyler Priest
ISBN-13: 9781603441568 (paper)
Texas A&M University Press, 2007
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Reservoir Geomechanics
Mark D. Zoback
ISBN-13: 9780521146197 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2010
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