The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World - Rilegato

Roberts, Paul

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ISBN 10: 0618239774 ISBN 13: 9780618239771

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004

Riassunto

The author, a regular contributor to New York Times Magazine and Harper's speculates on the role of oil in dominating the world's economy for the last century and the coming scenario that will result when the well runs dry.

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Recensione:

"May very well become for fossil fuels what Fast Food Nation was to food or High and Mighty to SUVs." Publishers Weekly

"Brilliant" The Baltimore Sun

"A stunning piece of work -- perhaps the best single book ever produced about our energy economy and its environmental implications." New York Review of Books

"An extraordinarily clear and powerful analysis of what is arguably the most serious crisis our industrial society has ever faced." Boston Herald

L'autore:

Paul Roberts is the author of The End of Oil, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award in 2005. He has written about resource economics and politics for numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and Rolling Stone, and lectures frequently on business and environmental issues. He lives in Washington State.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0618239774
• ISBN 13: 9780618239771
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 368