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The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order (Oxford Studies in International History)
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“This is an area where national comprehensive plans matter,”
Christopher Steiner • $20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better
weeks after two gushers were struck. These early days were characterized by extreme boom and bust cycles. Oil went for $16 a barrel in 1859, under 50¢ in 1861, and $8 in 1864.
Byrne Hobart • Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
Yet in the twenty-first century only puny profits can be made that way. Today the main economic assets consist of technical and institutional knowledge rather than wheat fields, gold mines, or even oil fields, and you just cannot conquer knowledge through war. An organization such as the Islamic State may still flourish by looting cities and oil we
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
As the robber barons of the last century looted the nation’s earth of its wealth—its coal and coke, its oil and ore, its iron, its forests, the very surface of its earth to provide a footing for the rails of their railroads—and used part of that wealth to ensure that the nation’s government would not force them to give more than a pittance of their
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
Recommended reading on energy, including books and reports on energy systems, transitions, OPEC history, Middle East politics, energy statistics, and more.
LinkZero Hour: Turn the Greatest Political and Financial Upheaval in Modern History to Your Advantage
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
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