Building for Oil is a historical account of the development of the oil town of Daqing in northeastern China during the formative years of the People’s Republic, describing Daqing’s rise and fall as a national model city. Daqing oil field was the most profitable state-owned enterprise and the single largest source of state revenue for almost three decades, from the 1950s through...(展开全部)

Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn't seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude oil skyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the region has become the scene of a competition between major powers that recalls the nineteenth-century scramble for colonization there. ...(展开全部)

Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadnt seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude oil skyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the region has become the scene of a competition between major powers that recalls the nineteenth-century scramble for colonization there. B...(展开全部)

Sinclair's 1927 novel did for California's oil industry what "The Jungle" did for Chicago's meat-packing factories. In "Oil!" Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and internation...(展开全部)

厄普顿·辛克莱，美国著名“社会丑事揭发派”小说家。一生共著有小说和社会研究著作80余部。其中揭露社会黑暗的长篇小说如《屠场》和《石油》（后被改编成电影《血色将至》等是比较优秀的作品，在现代美国文学史上占有不可或缺的地位。

在线阅读本书 In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer ...(展开全部)

"I read a lot of books. A quick measure comes up with more than 10 ft of shelf space filled with books relating to the topic...of my collection only 8 books sit on my desk. Today I added another to that rather select group. It is Morgan Downey's "Oil 101" ...It differs from them, however, both in being focused not just on oil, but also in explaining more of the financial matter...(展开全部)

It's 1979, Hugh Thomson is eighteen, far from home, with time to kill - and on his way to Mexico. When a stranger tells him there's money to be made by driving a car over the US border to sell on the black market in Central America, Hugh decides to give it a go. Throwing himself on the mercy of Mexicans he meets or crashes into, Hugh and his Oldsmobile 98 journey through the re...(展开全部)

主编简介： 罗新，1963年生于湖北，北京大学中国古代史研究中心暨历史学系教授，专业研究方向为魏晋南北朝史和中国古代民族史。专业代表作《中古北族名号研究》（2009）、《黑毡上的北魏皇帝》（2014），著有旅行文学作品《从大都到上都——在古道上重新发现中国》（2018）。 作者简介： 休·汤姆森（Hugh Thomson），英国探险家和旅行作家，英国皇家地理学会会员。他曾几次前往南美探寻印加遗迹。著有《白石》（The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland）、《胭脂红》（Cochineal Red: Travels Through Ancient Peru）、《龙舌兰油：迷失墨西哥》等。作为纪录片制作人，他获得了许多奖项，作品包括与威廉·达尔林普合作的《印度之旅》（Indian Journey...(展开全部)

"I read a lot of books. A quick measure comes up with more than 10 ft of shelf space filled with books relating to the topic...of my collection only 8 books sit on my desk. Today I added another to that rather select group. It is Morgan Downey's "Oil 101" ...It differs from them, however, both in being focused not just on oil, but also in explaining more of the financial matter...(展开全部)