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OIL

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
Oil in International Relations
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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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Oil and the Environment: Oil Spills

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

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

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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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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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
G

The Politics of Mexican Oil
George W. Grayson
ISBN-13: 9780822953234 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981
G

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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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)
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 Central Asian Economies since Independence
Richard Pomfret
ISBN-13: 9780691124650 (cloth)
Princeton University Press, 2006
S

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

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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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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
G

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
G

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
G

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

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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America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
Robert Vitalis
ISBN-13: 9780804754460 (cloth)
Stanford University Press, 2006
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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
G

Integrating U.S. Climate, Energy, and Transportation Policies: Proceedings of Three Workshops
Liisa 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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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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