 Burrough, Bryan. The Big Rich: The Rise and
Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes. New
York: The Penguin Press, 2009.
Weaving together the
multigenerational sagas of the industry's four
wealthiest families, Burrough brings to life the men
known in their day as the Big Four: Roy Cullen, H.
L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson, all
swaggering Texas oil tycoons who owned sprawling
ranches and mingled with presidents and Hollywood
stars.
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 Sperling, Daniel and
Deborah Gordon. Two
Billion Cars: Driving toward Sustainability.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
With statistical data,
charts, graphs, and erudite analysis, Sperling and
Gordon present the most thorough study of the automobile
industry general readers could hope to find. The
authors, with a foreword from Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger, summarize the history of the Big Three
automakers and then expand their scope to include
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 Zoellner, Tom.
Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World.
New York, Viking Penguin, 2009.
Zoellner
delves into the complex science, politics and history of
this radioactive mineral, which presents the best and
worst of mankind: the capacity for scientific progress
and political genius; the capacity for nihilism,
exploitation, and terror. |
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 Tertzakian,
Peter. The End of Energy Obesity: Breaking Today’s
Energy Addiction for a Prosperous and Secure Tomorrow.
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2009.
In The End
of Energy Obesity, energy expert and bestselling author
Peter Tertzakian explores solutions to this question by
analyzing the role of technology and circumstance on our
energy use.
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