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Publisher
St. James Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Multi-volume major reference work bringing together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. For students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors.
Series
Publisher
St. James Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Multi-volume major reference work bringing together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. For students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors.
Series
Publisher
St. James Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Multi-volume major reference work bringing together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. For students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors.
Series
Publisher
St. James Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Multi-volume major reference work bringing together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. For students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors.
Series
Publisher
St. James Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Multi-volume major reference work bringing together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. For students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors.
Series
Publisher
St. James Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Multi-volume major reference work bringing together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. For students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Explore the chemistry of fuels, which are materials that react with an oxidant to produce energy. Start with cellulose, the primary constituent of wood, then survey petroleum distillates, such as kerosene, diesel, and gasoline. Close by learning how plant oils can be used to make biodiesel, which behaves similarly to petroleum-based diesel.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
No other single factor has impacted the economy, politics, and social life of the Middle East as profoundly as oil. Trace the 20th-century discovery of petroleum across the region by foreign oil companies, and observe the ensuing geopolitical conflicts with local governments. Consider what became known as the Middle East’s "oil curse.”
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Turn now to chemical energy, the potential energy resulting from the position of atoms within molecules. After an overview of photosynthesis (perhaps the universe’s most amazing form of energy conversion), learn how combustion transforms biofuels into light and heat, and how energy density affects the transportation of biofuels like petroleum.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The highway truck — a modern workhorse, a heavy hauler vital to commerce — carries an 80,000-pound payload and must operate in every condition from sub-zero cold to triple-digit heat. To survive, it must be strong, durable and fuel-efficient, like the Mack Pinnacle, an engineering achievement made possible by platinum, petroleum, copper, manganese and polyurethane.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel, and traditional Japanese rituals to create an art project? Barney plowed the waters off the coast of Nagasaki to film his massive endeavor, Drawing Restraint 9 (2005). The immersive documentary Matthew Barney: No Restraint journeys to Japan with Barney and his collaborator Bjork as the visual artist creates a narrative sculpture, telling a fantastical love...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The automobile industry is going through revolutionary changes. The standard petroleum gasoline fueled engine has some new competition from gas-electric hybrids, electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, natural gas vehicles and even some automobiles that get some of their power from the sun. Alternative fuel vehicles produce less harmful emissions and are better for the environment. Many of these fuels can be derived from renew-able resources....
Author
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"What if the biggest barriers to responding to climate change are not technological or governmental but, rather, cultural? In other words, what if we ourselves could help to enact change through a deeper understanding of our petroleum dependency? In a provocative graphic format that draws widely from history, critical theory, and popular culture, Gasoline Dreams explores and challenges the ways fossil fuels have shaped our identities, relationships,...
94) The BP oil spill
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Provides model essays on a current controversial issue guiding students in writing a five-paragraph essay, including persuasive, descriptive, expository and cause-and-effect essays. Includes guided reading and discussion questions to help students understand the essays themselves and target persuasive techniques authors use to compose convincing arguments. This volume covers the 2010 BP (British Petroleum) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Witness an entire nation transforming its agriculture using organic techniques. The Greening of Cuba profiles Cuban farmers and scientists working to reinvent a sustainable agriculture, based on ecological principles and local knowledge rather than imported machinery and agro-chemicals. When trade relations with the socialist bloc collapsed in 1990, Cuba lost 80% of its pesticide and fertilizer imports and half of its petroleum - the mainstays of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For most of us, the only thing we know about flies is that they're annoying, and our usual reaction is to try to kill them. In Super Fly, the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe shows the order Diptera in all of its diversity, illustrating the essential role that flies play in every ecosystem in the world as pollinators, waste-disposers, predators, and food source; and how flies continue to reshape our understanding of evolution. Along the way,...
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"In a series of fun and involving hands-on earth science experiments, kids learn how the sun's position affects how a rainbow is made, how stalagmites and stalactites are formed, how faults produce earthquakes, what happens when magma hardens inside a volcano, and how falling water weathers rocks. They will also determine and demonstrate how sound is used to find petroleum, how the continents separated, how a geyser works, and why streams are not...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Energy is, without a doubt, the very foundation of the universe. It’s the engine that powers life and fuels the evolution of human civilization...Yet for all its importance, what energy really is and how it works remains a mystery to most non-scientists. For example:..• Where does most of our energy come from, and how is it sourced?.• How do energy technologies, both primitive and cutting-edge, generate power?.• How do we store energy—and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As the "Giant of Africa" Nigeria is home to about twenty percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, serves as Africa's largest producer of oil and natural gas, comprises Africa's largest economy, and represents the cultural center of African literature, film, and music. Yet the country is plagued by problems that keep it from realizing its potential as a world power. Boko Haram, a radical Islamist insurrection centered in the northeast of the...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Look around you. Great masterpieces of engineering are everywhere. As soon as you get out of bed in the morning, you are putting centuries of scientific and mechanical ingenuity to use. So familiar are these structures, inventions, and services that they are all but invisible. Yet they are just as remarkable as great works such as the Parthenon, the Eiffel Tower, and the Panama Canal. Consider for a moment the wonders of these marvels that have likely...
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