Crude : the story of oil / Sonia Shah.

Main entry:

Shah, Sonia.

Title & Author:

Crude : the story of oil / Sonia Shah.

Publication:

New York : Seven Stories ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2006.

Description:

xxiii, 232 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
Originally published: 2004.
List of tables -- Preface For the love of oil -- Oil is born -- Eclipse of coal -- Exile from Tethys -- Into the cold -- Rockefeller's ghost -- Refining the hunt -- Curse of crude -- Carbon perils -- Running on empty -- Challengers, old and new -- Death throes -- Tables; Notes; Index; Acknowledgments; About the author.

Summary:

This is the story of oil, from the circumstances of its birth millions of years ago, to the spectacle of its rise as the indispensible ingredient of modern life.

ISBN:

1583227237 (pbk.)
9781583227237 (pbk.)
1583226257
9781583226254

Subject:

Petroleum.
Petroleum Economic aspects.
Petroleum Social aspects.
Petroleum History.
Pétrole.
Pétrole Aspect économique.
Pétrole Aspect social.
Pétrole Histoire.
petroleum.
Erdöl
Olja (petroleum)

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254060
Call No.: BIB 183914
Status: Available

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