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Series
World made by hand volume 2
Description
In a post-oil America with no electricity, no Internet, dwindling resources, and little civic order, the residents of the small town of Union Grove, New York, must deal with roving bandits and a sinister cult that threatens to shatter the hamlet's stability.
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Series
Choose your own adventure volume 29
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
The reader investigates the dwindling oil supply that threatens life on Earth and can choose between alternative adventures, each leading to twenty-two possible endings.
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex societies. We are entering a new era, as different from the industrial era as the latter was from medieval times. In The Party's Over, Richard...
27) Fossil fuels
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Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Can you imagine what our lives would be like after we run out of vital fossil fuels? What would happen to our transportation, to the way we produce and distribute food, and to the many machines and gadgets we use? How would people, communities, and countries respond to shortages of energy? This book traces the possible consequences of a global event on this scale, with ideas and evidence based on similar scenarios from fact and fiction.
30) Oil
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Opposing viewpoints on the oil industry and it's future.
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A rock-solid argument that the era of cheap oil is in the past. Goes deep into the uncomfortable realities of a world that is both addicted to fossil fuels and blissfully unaware of the looming "peak oil" crisis. Debunks the conventional wisdom that oil production will continue to climb, and instead stare bleakly at a planet facing economic meltdown and conflict over its most valuable resource.
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
When the Sphinx is blown up by terrorists who also launch attacks on an Iranian soccer team and a vessel in the Red Sea, Kyle Swanson and his Trident team uncover an extremist plot to provoke war between Egypt and Iran to upset the balance of international power.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Returning with deep psychological scars after a tour of duty in Iraq, soldier Lauren Clay guides her younger brother to an upstate New York oil field that has become the subject of her obsession and begins teaching him survival skills while revealing her experiences.
36) Oil
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Provides an overview of the petroleum industry, its history, and its key players; examines the relationship between oil, finance, and politics; and explores the future of oil as supplies diminish and global warming threatens.
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