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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of AmericaWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionIn Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent...
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Can't Deny It - An Unlikely Wall Street Career and the Calls that Reshaped the Energy IndustryIn this compelling memoir, Douglas Terreson, one of Wall Street's most influential energy analysts, takes readers on a journey through the high-stakes world of global oil markets and financial powerhouses. From his humble beginnings on offshore oil rigs to making billion-dollar calls that reshaped...
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Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined VenezuelaBeneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude--the world's largest reserves--an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support, ultimately wreaking economic...
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Extraction: The Frontiers of Green CapitalismLithium, a crucial input in the batteries powering electric vehicles, has the potential to save the world from climate change. But even green solutions come at a cost. Mining lithium is environmentally destructive. We therefore confront a dilemma: Is it possible to save the...
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Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for CivilizationOur climate, and our democracy, are melting down. But Bill McKibben, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, insists the moment is also full of possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest power on the...
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Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for CivilizationOur climate, and our democracy, are melting down. But Bill McKibben, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, insists the moment is also full of possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest power on the...
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern CivilizationTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed...
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Nuclear Revolution: Powering the Next GenerationSkyrocketing energy prices are placing downward pressure on economic growth throughout the world. There seems to be no relief in sight, with hundreds of millions without access to reliable energy and with global energy consumption expected to grow by 50 percent over the next...
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Oil 101OIL 101 is a straightforward guide to oil and an essential read for anyone coming to grips with where oil prices, the economy and society are headed.In OIL 101, Downey provides the facts one needs to understand oil, from its history and chemistry, to...
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Plastic Inc.: The Secret History and Shocking Future of Big Oil's Biggest BetAn extraordinary exposé of the industry flooding our world with plastic--and now ramping up to make more than ever "Deeply researched, sharply written, and totally compelling." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the The Sixth Extinction "It is impossible not to compare Beth Gardiner's Plastic Inc....
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Rockefeller: Controlling the GameWhy would the first family of oil so ardently support environmental climate research and activism? Join author and researcher Jacob Nordangård as he uncovers the whole sordid truth. The Rockefeller family is one of the richest in the world. Yet, why would the family...
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The BESS BookRecent advances in lithium-ion battery technology and rapidly falling prices have ushered in an era of unprecedented growth in utility-scale energy storage projects. Propelled by ample government incentives, markets around the world have seen a swift rise in the number and size of battery...
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The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes"Burrough, with his gifts for both synthesis and lyricism, brings more to the table . . . [he] has also done estimable new reporting, showing links between Texas money and national politics that stretch back far earlier than the days of Lyndon B. Johnson."...
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The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth"A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics . . . Niarchos has produced an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism." --Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times best-selling author of Empire...
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The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy FutureIt's Never Too Late to Top Your Personal Best. Both a riveting account of a life spent pulling off improbable triumphs and a report back from the front of the global-energy and natural-resource wars, The First Billion Is the Hardest tells the story of...
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The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of NationsA Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Year for The New Map by the American Energy Society "A master class on how the world works." --NPRPulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel...
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & PowerWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week, Daniel Yergin's "spellbinding...irresistible" (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. Now with an epilogue...
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The Taking of Getty Oil: Pennzoil, Texaco, and the Takeover Battle That Made HistoryA 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 complicated, significant business stories and turn them into quick-reading...
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The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our LivesLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND THE 2024 FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD This unprecedented look inside the global battle to power our lives is "required reading for anyone interested in the 360-degree impacts of the...
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Women of Power and UtilitiesShape shifting, X-ray vision, gravity defying: we recognize these as fictional hero superpowers. Fire, the color yellow, lack of water: we know these to be their weaknesses. Superpowers and personal kryptonite brand these heroes. They also fuel and motivate today's women in what used...
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