Marrin Albert - Black Gold The Story Of Oil In Our Lives - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Oil is not pretty but it is a resource that drives the modern world. It has made fortunes for the lucky few and provided jobs for millions of ordinary folks. Thick and slippery crude oil has an evil smell. Yet without it life as we live it today would be impossible. Oil fuels our engines heats our homes and powers the machines that make the everyday things we take for granted from shopping bags to computers to medical equipment. Nations throughout the last century have gone to war over it. Indeed oil influences every aspect of modern life. It helps shape the history society politics and economy of every nation on earth. This riveting new book explores what oil is and the role this precious resource has played in America and the world.
Title: Black Gold The Story Of Oil In Our Lives
Author(s): Marrin Albert
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Barcode: 9780375859687
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 1/8/2013
Category: Science & Technology: General Interest (Children's / Teenage)