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Over A Barrel / Oil Dependence   "Over A Barrel: The Costs of U.S. Foreign Oil Dependence" [2007]
by John S. Duffield

Stanford Law & Politics hardcover [10/2007] for $18.45
Apollo's Fire / Clean Energy Economy   "Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy" [2007]
by Jay Inslee & Bracken Hendricks

Island Press hardcover [10/2007] for $17.13
Search for Arabian Oil   "Discovery!: The Search for Arabian Oil" [2007]
by Wallace Stegner

written on-hire for Aramco; finished & rejected in 1956; published only in Lebanon in 1971; 'reissued' in 2007, with a Foreword by Thomas W. Lippman
Selwa Press 9x6¼ hardcover [9/2007] for $16.47
Moving Mountains / Big Coal   "Moving Mountains: How One Woman & Her Community Won Justice From Big Coal" [2007]
by Penny Loeb

Univ Press of KY 9x6¼ hardcover [7/2007] for $18.45
Energy Autonomy   "Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social & Technological Case For Renewable Energy" [2007]
by Hermann Scheer

Earthscan 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2007] for $19.77
A Crude Awakening movie poster   "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash" documentary [indep 2006]
Co-produced & co-directed by Basil Gelpke & Ray McCormack

Docurama color DVD [7/2007] for $24.99
full credits at IMDb • official movie site
Blood of The Earth   "Blood of The Earth: The Battle For The World's Vanishing Oil Resources" [2006]
by Dilip Hiro

Nation Books 8¼x5½ pb [11/2006] for $10.85
Internal Combustion book by Edwin Black   "Internal Combustion: How Corporations & Governments Addicted The World To Oil & Derailed The Alternatives" [2006]
by Edwin Black

"he has ... made his case with devastating clarity"
St. Martin's Griffin 8x5¼ pb [12/2007] for $11.66
St. Martin's Press 8¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2006] for $27.39
Energy Switch / Proven Solutions   "Energy Switch: Proven Solutions For A Renewable Future" [2006]
by Craig Morris

New Society Publrs 9x6 pb [8/2006] for $13.22
Big Coal   "Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future"
[2006] by Jeff Goodell

Houghton Mifflin pb [4/2007] for $10.17
Houghton Mifflin 9¼x6¾ hardcover [6/2006] for $17.13
Thousand Barrels A Second   "A Thousand Barrels A Second: The Coming Oil Break Point & The Challenges Facing An Energy Dependent World" [2006]
by Peter Tertzakian

McGraw-Hill 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2006] for $17.61
Twilight in the Desert   "Twilight In The Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock & The World Economy" [2005]
by Matthew R. Simmons

Wiley 9x6 pb [6/2006] for $11.53
Wiley 9½x6 hardcover [6/2005] for $16.47
Oil Age Is Over   "The Oil Age Is Over: What To Expect As The World Runs Out of Cheap Oil, 2005-2050" [2005]
by Matthew David Savinar

self-published pb [4/2005] for $15.00
author's website
Beyond Oil   "Beyond Oil: The View From Hubbert's Peak" [2005]
by Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Hill & Wang 8x6½ pb [6/2006] for $10.01
Hill & Wang 9¼x6½ hardcover [2/2005] for $15.60
official Hubbert Peak website
Oil Addiction   "Oil Addiction: The World In Peril" [2004]
by Pierre Chomat, translated by Pamela Gilbert-Snyder

Universal Publrs 8½x5½ pb [11/2004] for $17.95
Halliburton Agenda   "The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil & Money" [2004]
by Dan Briody

Wiley & Sons 8½x5½ pb [12/2005] for $13.22
Wiley & Sons 9x6 hardcover [5/2004] for $24.95
End of Suburbia video   "The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion & The Collapse of The American Dream" [2004 documentary feature film]
Written & directed by Gregory Greene

Electric Wallpaper color DVD [5/2004] out of stock at Amazon
official website: purchase DVD
full credits from IMDb
End of Oil  
"The End of Oil: On The Edge of A Perilous New World" [2004]
by Paul Roberts

Mariner 8½x5½ pb [4/2005] for $11.20
Houghton Mifflin 9.4x6.4 hardcover [5/2004] for $17.68
Out of Gas   "Out of Gas: The End of The Age of Oil" [2004]
by David Goodstein [of Cal Tech]

W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [2/2005] for $11.16
W.W. Norton 8½x5¾ hardcover [2/2004] for $14.93
Hype About Hydrogen   "The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact & Fiction In The Race To Save The Climate" [2004]
by Joseph J. Romm

Island Press 9&fracx6¼ hardcover [2/2004] for $17.00
National Academy of Sciences article/excerpt {in HTML} [3/2004] for $5.95
author's website 'Climate Progress'
Winning The Oil Endgame   "Winning The Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs & Security"
[2004] Edited by Beatrice T. Aranow; articles by Amory B. Lovins, E. Kyle Datta, Jonathan G. Koomey, Nathan J. Glasgow & others

Rocky Mountain Institute 10¾x8¼ pb [9/2004] for $38.00
Rocky Mountain Institute 11x8½ pb [1/2004] out of print/used
official booksite
Oil Politics  
"Oil Politics: A Modern History of Petroleum" [2004]
by Francisco Parra (former Secretary General of OPEC)

I.B.Tauris 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2004] for $60.28
Idiot's Guide to the Politics of Oil   "The Complete Idiot's Guide To The Politics of Oil" [2003]
by Lita Epstein, C.D. Jaco & Julianne C. Iwersen-Neiman

Alpha Books pb [11/2003] for $12.89
Smartest Guys / Enron   "The Smartest Guys In The Room: The Amazing Rise & Scandalous Fall of Enron" [2003]
by Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind

Portfolio 8½x5½ pb [9/2004] for $10.88
Portfolio 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2003] for $17.79
"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" [docu feature April 2005]
Co-written & directed by Alex Gibney; based on the book

Magnolia color DVD [1/2006] for $13.76
full credits from IMDb; official movie website  [requires Flash]
Power Play  
"Power Play: The Twentieth-Century Struggle Over Electricity" [2003]
by Sharon Beder

"Deeply alarming ... Couldn't be timelier, particularly for Californians."
— Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times

New Press 9½x6¼ [8/2003] for $18.17
Party's Over / Heinberg   "The Party's Over: Oil, War & The Fate of Industrial Societies" [2003]
by Richard Heinberg

New Society 9x6¼ pb [6/2005] for $12.21
New Society 9x6 pb [4/2003] out of print/used
S.E.R. hardcover [4/2003] out of print/used
Coal History   "Coal: A Human History" [2003]
by Barbara Freese

Penguin 7x5¼ pb [1/2004] for $13.72
Perseus Books 8½x6¾ hardcover [1/2003] for $16.50
Hydrogen Economy   "The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of The Worldwide Energy Web & The Redistribution of Power On Earth" [2002]
by Jeremy Rifkin

"Recommended." — Time Magazine Green Century Special Issue
Tarcher Putnam 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2002] for $17.47
Hubbert's Peak   "Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage" [2001]
by Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [8/2003] for $11.02
Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2001] for $35.00
official Hubbert Peak website
Prize / Oil, Money & Power   "The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power" [1991]
by Daniel Yergin

bestseller & winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize
Free Press 9½x6 pb [1/93] for $14.96
Pocket 9x6 pb [12/91] out of print/used
S&S 9½x6½ hardcover [1/91] out of print/used
The Prize video   "The Prize" P.B.S. 8-part mini-series [1992]
Narration by Donald Sutherland

Home Vision color video [6/2000] 4 tape set; out of stock/used
Powerline by Wellstone & Casper   "Powerline: The First Battle of America's Energy War" [1981]
by Paul Wellstone & Barry M. Casper

Univ MN Press 8¼x5½ pb [9/2003] for $17.95
Univ MA Press hardcover [2/81] out of print/used
Brotherhood of Oil   "The Brotherhood of Oil: Energy Policy & The Public Interest"
[1977 classic] by Robert Engler

Univ of Chicago Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [4/77] out of print/used



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