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Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story" --Publisher marketing.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"The author of the popular History of Oil podcast traces the early-20th-century rivalry between John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell, describing the origins of partners Marcus Samuel, Jr. and Henri Deterding and how they used respective talents to break Rockefeller's daunting monopoly"--
At the height of the great oil boom of the 1870s-1880s, John D. Rockefeller was seemingly unstoppable. Capitalizing on the newly emerging industry...
8) Oil
Author
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of the oil industry, the ways in which oil is refined and processed, the uses of oil and oil products, the influence that the need for oil has on the world's current political situation, and the impact of oil byproducts on the environment.
14) Gashole
Series
Publisher
Cinema Libre
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of fuel consumption in America and the country's dependence on oil.