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"Using historical anecdotes and contemporary reporting, Power Trip explains the roots of America's energy addiction, its current state, and outlines real solutions that are arising from a new generation of activists, economists, entrepreneurs, and the business community"--From publisher description.
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Cuban-born bandleader Ricky Ricardo and his wife, Lucy, live in a Brownstone apartment building on East 68th Street in New York City. The beautiful, but daffy Lucy has the nasty habit of getting into jams, scrapes, and predicaments of all kinds. Their best friends and landlords, Fred and Ethel Mertz, frequently find themselves in the middle of Lucy's outlandish escapades. Now in the third season of Lucy's hilarious adventures; the Ricardos adjust...
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"It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties ... Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people ... to invest as much as $30 million--upwards of $400 million today--in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama ... When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923, he vanished, and the Chicago state's attorney, a man whose...
14) This is Texas
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Texas, home state of three presidents, is also famed for its cattle, Cadillacs, coyotes and cowboys, oil wells and millionaires., Spanish missions and state fairs, rodeos and rattlesnakes. Everything in the biggest state is bigger than anywhere else. If you don't believe it, just ask any Texan, who will tell you taller tales than anyone else.
15) Plant Factory
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"Recommended. An optimistic view of biotechnology and plant genetic engineering in an easily understood and non-technical way." -EMRO Review England's green and pleasant land is turning yellow. Oil seed, a wonderfully adaptable plant, has become a prime crop. Genetic engineers hybridize it with alien species, alien material and in doing so these vast yellow fields are becoming the world's new plastic factories, oil wells and major food stores.
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The Bakken oil boom is bringing billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs to North Dakota. A substantial part of the oil production is concentrated on an Indian reservation. Fort Berthold Reservation’s 1,000-plus oil wells have brought in money and jobs for some, but oil has also brought danger — organized crime, hard drugs, traffic fatalities — and other problems. Tribal members speak about the benefits and consequences of the boom....
17) The thicket
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"Jack Parker knows all too well how treacherous turn-of-the-century East Texas can be. His parents did not survive a smallpox epidemic. His grandfather was murdered. Now his sister Lula has been kidnapped by a criminal who may believe wearing a dead man's clothes protects him from death. With bounty hunter Shorty, a charismatic and cunning dwarf, and Eustace, a gravedigging son of an ex-slave, the heartbroken young Jack sets off on an epic quest to...
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In Power Trip, we accompany her to a deep-sea oil rig, the cornfields of Kansas, the catacombs of the Pentagon, the Talladega Superspeedway, and inside New York City's electrical grid. We visit laboratories creating the innovations that will carry us into a clean-energy future. Little also travels back through history to investigate how America developed its unrivaled appetite for fossil fuels. In vivid, fast-paced prose, she illustrates how the same...
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