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Blowout

Author : Rachel Maddow
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0525575499
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Blowout written by Rachel Maddow and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All “A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil and gas industry on the world today.”—The New York Times Book Review In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at auction for over $1 million to a guy who was, officially, just the lowly forestry minister of the tiny nation of Equatorial Guinea. And in 2014, revolutionaries in Ukraine raided the palace of their ousted president and found a zoo of peacocks, gilded toilets, and a floating restaurant modeled after a Spanish galleon. Unlikely as it might seem, there is a thread connecting these events, and Rachel Maddow follows it to its crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe, revealing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas along the way, and drawing a surprising conclusion about why the Russian government hacked the 2016 U.S. election. She deftly shows how Russia’s rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Vladimir Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russia’s rot into its rivals, its neighbors, the West’s most important alliances, and the United States. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, most notably ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson. The oil and gas industry has weakened democracies in developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers, and propped up authoritarian thieves and killers. But being outraged at it is, according to Maddow, “like being indignant when a lion takes down and eats a gazelle. You can’t really blame the lion. It’s in her nature.” Blowout is a call to contain the lion: to stop subsidizing the wealthiest businesses on earth, to fight for transparency, and to check the influence of the world’s most destructive industry and its enablers. The stakes have never been higher. As Maddow writes, “Democracy either wins this one or disappears.”

Blowout!

Author : Mario T. García
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807877913
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Blowout! written by Mario T. García and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led by Sal Castro, a courageous and charismatic Mexican American teacher who encouraged the students to make their grievances public after school administrators and school board members failed to listen to them. The resulting blowouts sparked the beginning of the urban Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the largest and most widespread civil rights protests by Mexican Americans in U.S. history. This fascinating testimonio, or oral history, transcribed and presented in Castro's voice by historian Mario T. Garcia, is a compelling, highly readable narrative of a young boy growing up in Los Angeles who made history by his leadership in the blowouts and in his career as a dedicated and committed teacher. Blowout! fills a major void in the history of the civil rights and Chicano movements of the 1960s, particularly the struggle for educational justice.

Blowout

Author : Catherine Coulter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101214848
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Blowout written by Catherine Coulter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long weekend in the Poconos is cut short when Sherlock and Savich are helicoptered back to Washington to lead the investigation into the brutal murder of a Supreme Court justice. Savich allows Callie Markham, an investigative reporter for The Washington Post, to partner with local Metro Police liaison Ben Raven since she's got the inside track--she's the stepdaughter of the murdered justice. Despite Detective Raven's unwillingness to have a civilian along, Callie Markham ends up riding shotgun to help look for her stepfather's murderer.

Blowout #1

Author : Taylor Morris
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101513802
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Blowout #1 written by Taylor Morris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that she's had her thirteenth birthday, Mickey's finally old enough to work at her mother's super glam hair salon-Hello, Gorgeous! And true to the old clich? about people confiding in their hair stylists, Mickey starts getting an earful right off the bat. Customers love talking to her because she's so empathetic, but what happens when she starts getting overly involved in their dramas?

Blowout

Author : Byron L. Dorgan
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780765365873
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Blowout written by Byron L. Dorgan and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Senator Dorgan and acclaimed novelist Hagberg collaborate on a high-concept thriller about America's dangerous addiction to foreign oil--a dependency that could cripple the nation's economy and ecosystem.

The Drybar Guide to Good Hair for All

Author : Alli Webb
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613129882
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Drybar Guide to Good Hair for All written by Alli Webb and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Picture this. Your hair is a mess and you feel like a nut. You open your Drybar book and you feel better already! The Drybar Guide to Good Hair for All is the ultimate handbook for at-home hairstyling. Author Alli Webb, a long-time stylist and life-long curly hair girl, founded Drybar in 2010 as an affordable luxury—offering women a great blowout in a beautiful and fun atmosphere. Today, there are more than 60 Drybars across the country, with more opening every day. Drybar’s book makes it easy for women to get the Drybar look at home. Webb shares her tried and true tricks and tips in three in-depth sections featuring more than 100 style-inspiration photograph and step-by-step tutorials. Bright, upbeat, and loaded with style and substance, this book will give readers everywhere a good hair day at home!

Blowout and Well Control Handbook

Author : Robert D. Grace
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0128126752
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Blowout and Well Control Handbook written by Robert D. Grace and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blowout and Well Control Handbook, Second Edition, brings the engineer and rig personnel up to date on all the useful methods, equipment, and project details needed to solve daily well control challenges. Blowouts are the most expensive and one of the most preventable accidents in the oil and gas industry. While some rig crews experience frequent well control incidents, some go years before seeing the real thing. Either way, the crew must always be prepared with quick understanding of the operations and calculations necessary to maintain well control. Updated to cover the lessons learned and new technology following the Macondo incident, this fully detailed reference will cover detection of influxes and losses in equipment and methods, a greater emphasis on kick tolerance considerations, an expanded section on floating drilling and deepwater floating drilling procedures, and a new blowout case history from Bangladesh. With updated photos, case studies, and practice examples, Blowout and Well Control Handbook, Second Edition will continue to deliver critical and modern well control information to ensure engineers and personnel stay safe, environmentally-responsible, and effective on the rig. Features updated and new case studies including a chapter devoted to the lessons learned and new procedures following Macondo Teaches new technology such as liquid packer techniques and a new chapter devoted to relief well design and operations Improves on both offshore and onshore operations with expanded material and photos on special conditions, challenges, and control procedures throughout the entire cycle of the well

Blowout in the Gulf

Author : William R. Freudenburg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262015838
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Blowout in the Gulf written by William R. Freudenburg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how a chain of failures, missteps, and bad decisions led to America's biggest environmental disaster.

Blowout

Author : Denise Duhamel
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822978644
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Blowout written by Denise Duhamel and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award. In Blowout, Denise Duhamel asks the same question that Frankie Lyman & the Teenagers asked back in 1954—"Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" Duhamel's poems readily admit that she is a love-struck fool, but also embrace the "crazy wisdom" of the Fool of the Tarot deck and the fool as entertainer or jester. From a kindergarten crush to a failed marriage and beyond, Duhamel explores the nature of romantic love and her own limitations. She also examines love through music, film, and history—Michelle and Barak Obama's inauguration and Cleopatra's ancient sex toy. Duhamel chronicles the perilous cruelties of love gone awry, but also reminds us of the compassion and transcendence in the aftermath. In "Having a Diet Coke with You," she asserts that "love poems are the most difficult poems to write / because each poem contains its opposite its loss / and that no matter how fierce the love of a couple / one of them will leave the other / if not through betrayal / then through death." Yet, in Blowout, Duhamel fiercely and foolishly embraces the poetry of love.

Advanced Blowout & Well Control

Author : Robert D. Grace
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780884152606
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Advanced Blowout & Well Control written by Robert D. Grace and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full text engineering e-book.

Macondo Well Deepwater Horizon Blowout

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309221412
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Macondo Well Deepwater Horizon Blowout written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blowout of the Macondo well on April 20, 2010, led to enormous consequences for the individuals involved in the drilling operations, and for their families. Eleven workers on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig lost their lives and 16 others were seriously injured. There were also enormous consequences for the companies involved in the drilling operations, to the Gulf of Mexico environment, and to the economy of the region and beyond. The flow continued for nearly 3 months before the well could be completely killed, during which time, nearly 5 million barrels of oil spilled into the gulf. Macondo Well-Deepwater Horizon Blowout examines the causes of the blowout and provides a series of recommendations, for both the oil and gas industry and government regulators, intended to reduce the likelihood and impact of any future losses of well control during offshore drilling. According to this report, companies involved in offshore drilling should take a "system safety" approach to anticipating and managing possible dangers at every level of operation-from ensuring the integrity of wells to designing blowout preventers that function under all foreseeable conditions-in order to reduce the risk of another accident as catastrophic as the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. In addition, an enhanced regulatory approach should combine strong industry safety goals with mandatory oversight at critical points during drilling operations. Macondo Well-Deepwater Horizon Blowout discusses ultimate responsibility and accountability for well integrity and safety of offshore equipment, formal system safety education and training of personnel engaged in offshore drilling, and guidelines that should be established so that well designs incorporate protection against the various credible risks associated with the drilling and abandonment process. This book will be of interest to professionals in the oil and gas industry, government decision makers, environmental advocacy groups, and others who seek an understanding of the processes involved in order to ensure safety in undertakings of this nature.

BP Blowout

Author : Daniel Jacobs
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 081572909X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book BP Blowout written by Daniel Jacobs and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the worst environmental disaster in American history and its enduring consequences BP Blowout is the first comprehensive account of the legal, economic, and environmental consequences of the disaster that resulted from the April 2010 blowout at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident, which destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, killed 11 people. The ensuing oil discharge–the largest ever in U.S. waters—polluted much of the Gulf for months, wreaking havoc on its inhabitants and the environment. A management professor and former award-winning Justice Department lawyer responsible for enforcing environmental laws, Daniel Jacobs tells the story that neither BP nor the federal government wants heard: how the company and the government fell short, both in terms of preventing and responding to the disaster. Critical details about the cause and aftermath of the disaster have emerged through court proceedings and with time. The key finding of the federal judge who presided over the civil litigation was that the blowout resulted from BP’s gross negligence. BP has paid tens of billions of dollars to settle claims and lawsuits. The company also has pled guilty to manslaughter in a separate criminal case, but no one responsible for the tragedy is going to prison. BP Blowout provides new and disturbing details in a definitive narrative that takes the reader inside BP, the White House, Congress and the courthouse. This is an important book for readers interested in the environment, sustainability, public policy, leadership, and risk management.

Blow Out the Moon

Author : Libby Koponen
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316025739
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Blow Out the Moon written by Libby Koponen and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized account of the author's childhood experiences moving from the United States to London, England, and attending a boarding school.

BlowOut

Author : Terri Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (941 download)

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Download or read book BlowOut written by Terri Reid and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cosmetologist - L.J. Carter (Louella Jo for the folks who knew her when she was growing up) returns to her hometown of Julep, Mississippi for her mother's funeral. After flying out of JFK and arriving at the Biloxi Airport, she is greeted by a woman who not only knew her mother but has some disturbing information to share with L.J. about her mother's death. A card file - Like any good stylist, Jeannette Carter kept all of the important information about her customers on index cards, filed in an old, metal card file. But Jeannette didn't just keep the latest hairstyles and coloring information, she also kept bits of gossip and information her customers told her. It was innocent enough - she just wanted to be sure she remembered what they told her when they were together. But after a customer is murdered, the innocent card file could be the motive for another death. Bless Your Heart - welcome to Julep, Mississippi, right on the Gulf Coast. Where neighbors have known each other for generations. Where the local hair salon has more information about what's going on in town than either the local paper or the local sheriff's department. The owner of the bakery knows you by name. The minister of the biggest church in town has more clout than the mayor. And people say "Bless Your Heart" for all kinds of reasons, the least of which is when they're ready to insult you.

Blowout

Author : Robert Orrell
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781574091090
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Blowout written by Robert Orrell and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Orrell recounts the brutality and immense danger of life on an oil rig.

Summer Blowout

Author : Claire Cook
Publisher : Marshbury Beach Books
ISBN 13 : 0989921077
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Summer Blowout written by Claire Cook and published by Marshbury Beach Books. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer Blowout is a USA TODAY bestseller! “As intoxicating as a seat at the top of the Ferris wheel. Reading Claire Cook might be the most fun you have all summer.”—Elin Hilderbrand “Charming, engagingly quirky, and full of fun, Claire Cook just gets it. Summer Blowout is irresistible!”—Meg Cabot “As refreshing as an icy drink on a sultry day.” —Family Circle Bella Shaughnessy is addicted to lipstick with names like My Chihuahua Bites and Kiss My Lips, an occupational hazard, since she works as a stylist and makeup artist for her family’s small chain of beauty salons in Marshbury, Massachusetts, along with her four half-brothers and -sisters. The owner is her father, Lucky Shaughnessy, a gregarious, three-times-divorced charmer with Donald Trump hair, who is obsessed with all things Italian and still carries a torch for his first wife, Bella’s mother. After Bella’s own marriage flames out spectacularly when her half-sister runs off with her husband, Bella decides she has seen enough of the damage love can do. She makes a vow: no more men. Then Bella meets a cute entrepreneur at a college fair, and despite their bickering, they can’t seem to stay away from each other. He also gives her a brilliant business idea, one that just might allow her to share her makeup expertise with the world. A small, well-tressed dog finds her way into her life, and her heart, and she decides to chance that, too. When the whole clan heads to Atlanta for a big Southern wedding, sparks fly—in a summer blowout no one will ever forget. This hilarious, rambunctious novel is pure Claire Cook: full of juicy conflict and unconditional love. “Lipstick rules in this sunny romance tucked inside a Boston family’s chain of beauty salons…Snap this one up and enjoy the makeup advice.”—Library Journal “Summer Blowout is every bit as much fun as Must Love Dogs and Life’s a Beach.”—The Times-Picayune “Laugh out loud.”—Good Housekeeping “Summer Blowout is primed, like Cook’s previous novel Must Love Dogs, to become a big-screen romantic comedy.”—Booklist “Nobody does the easy-breezy beach book with a lighter hand than Claire Cook.”—Hartford Courant

MVP #4: The Basketball Blowout

Author : David A. Kelly
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0553513281
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book MVP #4: The Basketball Blowout written by David A. Kelly and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the Ballpark Mysteries comes the coolest sports club around—the Most Valuable Players! The MVP club needs to raise money for their basketball tournament. At first, they think selling popcorn will be easy . . . but then Luke eats more popcorn than he sells! Plus there’s a new kid at school who might need the money even more than the team does. Can the MVP kids raise enough money, win the tournament, and help their friend? Perfect for kids who love to compete in all kinds of contests and have fun with great friends, David A. Kelly’s series teaches readers that when you’re a most valuable player, you love sports, always show spirit, and never give up! Don’t miss bonus sports facts in every MVP book.