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Crude

The Story of Oil

Sonia Shah

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English
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
01 August 2011
"Crude is the unexpurgated story of oil, from the circumstances of its birth millions of years ago to the spectacle of its rise as the indispensable ingredient of modern life. In addition to fueling our SUVs and illuminating our cities, crude oil and its byproducts fertilize our produce, pave our roads, and make plastic possible. ""Newborn babies,"" observes author Sonia Shah, ""slide from their mothers into petro-plastic-gloved hands, are swaddled in petro-polyester blankets, and are hurried off to be warmed by oil-burning heaters."" The modern world is drenched in oil; Crude tells how it came to be. A great human drama emerges, of discovery and innovation, risk, the promise of riches, and the power of greed. Shah infuses recent twists in the story with equal drama, through chronicles of colorful modern-day characters - from the hundreds of Nigerian women who stormed a Chevron plant to a monomaniacal scientist for whom life is the pursuit of this earthblood and its elusive secret. Shah moves masterfully between scientific, economic, political, and social analysis, capturing the many sides of the indispensable mineral that we someday may have to find a way to live without."
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Imprint:   Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 209mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   239g
ISBN:   9781583227237
ISBN 10:   1583227237
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

SONIA SHAH edited both the critically acclaimed Dragon Ladies- Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire and Between Fear and Hope- A Decade of Peace Activism. A former editor at South End Press and Nuclear Times Magazine, Shah is an independent journalist whose writing appears in The Nation, The Progressive, Salon, and elsewhere.

Reviews for Crude: The Story of Oil

This is not a Michael Moore-style anti-corporate rant - Shah writes beautifully, with dispassionate, elegant clarity - and it is all the more powerful for it. - The Guardian Riveting... an informative, startling and necessary work. - Roy Morrison, author of Ecological Democracy The facts and figures of the world's most important energy resource come alive. Shah helps us understand the energy subsidy oil gives our society, how our economy is dependent on it, and what the real ramifications are of turning the key in the ignition. - Julian Darley, author of High Noon for Natural Gas


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