Crude
Subtitle: the story of oil
By: Sonia Shah.
Edition: A Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Petroleum
Description: "Sonia Shah weaves together the science, economics, politics, and social history of oil in a way that will forever change the way we look at the world's most coveted and contentious mineral. She takes us on a globe-trotting journey to the far corners of the Earth and the depths of the seas, with would be oil barons, hundreds of Nigerian women who stormed a Chevron plant, and a monomaniacal scientist who speaks of oil's "lovely organic molecules.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Oil is born; title: The eclipse of coal; title: Exile from Tethys; title: Into the cold; title: Rockefeller's ghost; title: Refining the hunt; title: Aftershocks; title: The curse of crude; title: Carbon perils; title: Running on empty; title: Challengers, old and new; title: Death throes.