Download or read book Bloody Oil written by Lev Amusin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is November of 1993, and forty-eight-year-old Boris Goryanin realizes he never would have believed it if someone had told him six months earlier of all that he had experienced. He has been kidnapped and nearly killed by the Russian mafia, only to be rescued from death by Lady Melissa Spencer, a beautiful British aristocrat who would later become his mistress. As he flies over the ocean, Boris knows his life has been turned upside down. Now he just needs to figure out how to make things right again. Boris regrets his fateful decision to accept a proposal from Gavrila Petrovich Kravchuk, the president of a Russian financial-trading corporation. The power-hungry Kravchuk will step on anyone to get what he wants; after Boris realizes Kravchuk has been the mastermind behind his capture, he decides to take matters into his own hands. In this compelling historical novel based on true events, a saga of undying love is created in the midst of a bitter conflict between oil giants, international financial rogues, and a bloodthirsty mafia. The man caught in the middle of it all must determine whom he can trust and who is deceiving himbefore it is too late.
Download or read book Blood Oil written by Leif Wenar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping book, one of today's leading political philosophers, Leif Wenar, goes behind the headlines in search of the hidden global rule that thwarts democracy and development-and that puts shoppers into business with some of today's most dangerous men.
Download or read book Blood Oil written by James Phelan and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the price of a human life? Lachlan Fox is about to pay it. Oil prices are rocketing. Terror attacks have destabilized the global economy. The White House believes the Nigerian oil fields are the key to safeguarding America’s future, but someone else sees them as an opportunity to consolidate power. Travelling from New York to Nigeria, investigative journalist and ex-navy operative Lachlan Fox is hunting the story. He’s seen action in Afghanistan, East Timor and Iraq, but this time it’s personal. Wrestling with demons that push him right to the edge and leave him exposed like never before, will Fox uncover the truth in time? Or will his quest for revenge see him go too far?
Download or read book Blood Oil and Power written by M H Woodhouse and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story starts in a small African country, Nzimba. With the discovery of oil, the country becomes a pawn in the schemes of the major global forces USA, China, and Islamic fundamentalists all trying to gain control of Nzimba to add to their efforts to dominate the world energy supply. This struggle spreads to Nzimba's neighbours and military action comes from the different sides. Inevitably in this montage of human relationships and power struggles we encounter many torrid sexual liasions between the individuals. We now move to the wider global picture showing the USA and China struggling to gain in the race for the future energy supplies and the pan-Islamic forces using the oil struggle as a vehicle for the spread of their religious doctrine. Having been outmanuevered by the Islamic strategists and China, the USA retires back to its 19th century isolationism and the alliance enjoys a period of control over the major portion of the world's oil supply. Still the Arabian peninsular oil fields are controlled by the western oil companies. Israel takes advantage of the Muslim's self confidence to launch major attacks improving the chances of their future survival.
Download or read book Blood Oil and the Axis written by John Broich and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “almost absurdly colorful” history of the WWII battle for the Levant: “In places . . . the material is like Casablanca meets The English Patient” (The Wall Street Journal). In the spring of 1941, the Allied forces had one last hope: that the Axis would run through its fuel supply. In Blood, Oil and the Axis, historian John Broich tells the vital story of Iraq and the Levant during this most pivotal time of the war. Four Iraqi generals staged a pro-German coup in Iraq, they established military cooperation between the Axis and the Middle East. The Allies responded with an improvised and unlikely coalition: Palestinian and Jordanian Arabs, Australians, American and British soldiers, Free French Foreign Legionnaires, and Jewish Palestinians. All shared a common desire to quash the formation of an Axis state in the region. Taking readers from a bombed-out Fallujah, to Baghdad, to Damascus, this definitive chronicle features numerous memorable figures, including Jack Hasey, a young American who fought with the Free French Foreign Legion; Freya Stark, a famous travel-writer-turned-government-agent; and even Roald Dahl, a young Royal Air Force recruit and future author of beloved children’s books.
Download or read book Blood Oil Tears and Korean Traditional Dance Volumes 1 to 5 By Jason Changkyu Kim written by Jason Changkyu Kim and published by Purister Publishing and Outsourcing, Jason Changkyu Kim. This book was released on with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Changkyu Kim talks greatly about sadness, reform, and success. The genus of the Oriental condition, is the severity of corruption and I am the source of everything ever discovered by Korea. And that's what the iron law of oligarchy means. Purister Publishing and Outsourcing.
Download or read book Blood Oil Tears and Korean Traditional Dance Volume 2 By Jason Changkyu Kim written by Jason Changkyu Kim and published by Purister Publishing and Outsourcing, Jason Changkyu Kim. This book was released on with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching in the Trenches continues! By Jason Changkyu Kim, Owner and Founder of Purister Publishing and Outsourcing. Bad politics, under trained teachers, and an atmosphere of I just do not care. How does out protagonist Jason Changkyu Kim cope and excel in one of the worst schools in South Korea. Mirae Industrial High School of Science and Technology. All the education literature says 'At-Risk' Youth. High rates of delinquency and poor academic performance which are two sides of different coins
Download or read book Blood and Oil written by Michael T. Klare and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Resource Wars, a landmark assessment of the critical role of petroleum in America's actions abroad In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael T. Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-Cold War world. Now, in Blood and Oil, he concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning to the United States-its most powerful, and most dependent, global consumer. Since September 11th and the commencement of the "war on terror," the world's attention has been focused on the relationship between U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the oceans of crude oil that lie beneath the region's soil. Klare traces oil's impact on international affairs since World War II, revealing its influence on the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Carter doctrines. He shows how America's own wells are drying up as our demand increases; by 2010, the United States will need to import 60 percent of its oil. And since most of this supply will have to come from chronically unstable, often violently anti-American zones-the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, Latin America, and Africa-our dependency is bound to lead to recurrent military involvement. With clarity and urgency, Blood and Oil delineates the United States' predicament and cautions that it is time to change our energy policies, before we spend the next decades paying for oil with blood.
Download or read book Beyond Blood Oil written by Leif Wenar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leif Wenar’s 2016 book Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World argues that much of the conflict, suffering, and injustice in the world is driven by an archaic rule in global trade that forces consumers to fund oppression and corruption. This oil curse is a major threat to global peace and stability. Wenar sets out Clean Trade policies to lift the oil curse through national legislation that affirms democratic principles. In Beyond Blood Oil, Wenar summarizes and extends his views, setting the stage for five essays from first-class critics from the fields of political theory, philosophy, and energy politics. Wenar replies vigorously and frankly to the critics, making the volume the scene of a highly energetic debate that will benefit all scholars, students, and global citizens interested in global justice, international security, oil politics, fair trade, climate change, and progressive reforms.
Download or read book Making Posters written by Scott Laserow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posters have the power to influence and inform - so how does a designer hone their creations to have the impact they need? With a special focus on conceptualization, internationally-acclaimed and award-winning designers Natalia Delgado and Scott Laserow takes you though planning, analyzing and creating posters that stop viewers in their tracks. Classic and contemporary examples from around the world show you what can be achieved at the cutting-edge of the medium - from protest and propaganda posters, through pop culture and Swiss style, to animated and interactive designs. Whether you need to promote the next president, advertise a brand or create awareness of a health crisis, Making Posters gives you the critical and practical skills to excel in one of the most widely seen forms of graphic design and make sure your work stands out from the crowd.
Download or read book Blood Oil written by Manucher Farmanfarmaian and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEN/West Award Finalist " Told with energy, perception and great charm. . . . For anyone who wants to . . . gain insight into the great cultural and political richness of Iran, past, present and future, this book is a marvelous introduction." --Fred Halliday, Los Angeles Times Iran was the first country in the Middle East to develop an oil industry, and oil has been central to its tumultuous twentieth-century history. A finalist for the PEN/West Award, Blood and Oil tells the epic inside story of the battle for Iranian oil. A prominent member of one of Iran's most powerful aristocratic families--so feared by Khomeini that the entire clan was blacklisted--Prince Manucher Farmanfarmaian was raised in a harem at the heart of Iran's imperial court. With wit and provocative detail, he describes the days when he served as the Shah's oil adviser and pioneered the partnership that resulted in OPEC. Beautifully written and epic in its scope, this scintillating memoir provides a fascinating history of modern Iran. " Distinguished by its political acumen, historical sense, and vividness of description and anecdote. It is also notable for a wry sense of humour. . . . Amid the euphoria about the development of the oilfields of Central Asia and the Transcaucasus, [its] lesson should be kept in mind." --Anatol Lieven, Financial Times "A book of stunning beauty . . . One of the best accounts of the cultural and political life of modern Iran, it is exquisite and intimate, rendered with art-istry and detail." --Fouad Ajami
Download or read book The Taking of Getty Oil written by Steve Coll and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A larger-than-life account of family, greed, and a courtroom showdown between Big Oil rivals from the New York Times–bestselling author of Private Empire. Pulitzer Prize–winning author Steve Coll is renowned for “his ability to take complicated, significant business stories and turn them into quick-reading engaging narratives” (Chicago Tribune). Coll is at the height of his talents in this “riveting” tale of one of the most spectacular—and catastrophic—corporate takeovers of all time (Newsday). As the head of a sprawling oil empire, J. Paul Getty was once the world’s richest man. But by 1984, eight years after his death, Getty’s legacy was in tatters: His children were locked in a bitter feud over the family trust and the company he founded was riven by boardroom turmoil. Then Pennzoil made an agreement with Getty’s son, Gordon, to purchase Getty Oil. It was a done deal—until Texaco swooped in to claim the $10 billion prize. What followed was an epic legal battle that pit “good ole boy” J. Hugh Liedtke of Pennzoil against the Wall Street brokers behind Texaco’s offer. The scandalous details of the case would shock the business world and change the landscape of the oil industry forever. With a large cast of colorful characters and the dramatic pacing of a novel, The Taking of Getty Oil is a “suspenseful” and “always intriguing” chronicle of one of the most fascinating chapters in American corporate history (Publishers Weekly).
Download or read book The Blood Princess written by G. E. Webb and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blood Huntress, legendary hunter of men. It is said she can smell the blood of her enemies and has never failed to bring those to justice whom she hunts. Few know where she came from, but one man does for he is the one who trained her. Danyard, Lord Protector of The Kingdom of Light, legendary warrior who once turned an entire battle and forced an army to flee. The Kingdom of Light, a shining example of wealth and prosperity envied throughout the known world. And there are nations who look upon this world with envious eyes, and one man who has a plan to take it with a weapon the likes of which no medieval land has ever seen, a weapon that will change the face of warfare forever.
Download or read book Warning Signs of Genocide written by E. N. Anderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genocide occurs when a government attempts to exterminate systematically a large percentage of its own citizens or subjects, simply because they fall into a particular group defined by religion, ethnicity, political affiliation, or (rarely) other group identification ranging from occupation to gender status. Genocide has been a major cause of death worldwide over the last 100 years or more, and is far from being eliminated. Through examining available cases, Warning Signs of Genocide: An Anthropological Perspective shows that genocide becomes a live danger when group hatreds--especially religious, ethnic, and political--are exploited by political regimes as major ways of seizing and maintaining power. Genocide is actually invoked, however, only when such regimes feel they are threatened, usually either because they are new and not consolidated in power or because they are challenged by local rebellions, civil war, or (less often) international war or major economic decline. Knowing these warning signs should make the international community take note that genocide is virtually certain to occur, and take action to stop it. This book joins others in noting that the international community has rarely intervened in time, and in the hope that these findings will encourage more prompt action.
Download or read book Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada written by Meenal Shrivastava and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Democracy in Alberta: The Theory and Practice of a Quasi-Party System, published in 1953, C. B. Macpherson explored the nature of democracy in a province that was dominated by a single class of producers. At the time, Macpherson was talking about Alberta farmers, but today the province can still be seen as a one-industry economy—the 1947 discovery of oil in Leduc having inaugurated a new era. For all practical purposes, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta also remains a one-party state. Not only has there been little opposition to a government that has been in power for over forty years, but Alberta ranks behind other provinces in terms of voter turnout, while also boasting some of the lowest scores on a variety of social welfare indicators. The contributors to Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy critically assess the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impact of the government’s relationship to the oil industry on the lives of the province’s most vulnerable citizens. They also examine the public policy environment and the entrenchment of neoliberal political ideology in the province. In probing the relationship between oil dependency and democracy in the context of an industrialized nation, Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy offers a crucial test of the “oil inhibits democracy” thesis that has hitherto been advanced in relation to oil-producing countries in the Global South. If reliance on oil production appears to undermine democratic participation and governance in Alberta, then what does the Alberta case suggest for the future of democracy in industrialized nations such as the United States and Australia, which are now in the process of exploiting their own substantial shale oil reserves? The environmental consequences of oil production have, for example, been the subject of much attention. Little is likely to change, however, if citizens of oil-rich countries cannot effectively intervene to influence government policy.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to the Politics of Oil written by Lita Epstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the discovery of oil has affected world history and current events.
Download or read book Blossoms and Blood written by Jason Sperb and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monografie over het werk van de Amerikaanse regisseur en scenarioschrijver (1970).
