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Best Petrochemical Engineering

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis. Following on from there, The Prize , winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, is a comprehensive history of one of the commodities that powers the world--oil. Energy consultant Yergin limns oil's central role in most of the wars and many international crises of the 20th century.
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"It focuses on the effects of oil on the economies of both consuming and producing nations as well how access to oil affects the political power of nations."
"It makes no sense to export a precious finite resource, and it makes a lot of sense to use our enemy's supply first."
"This is the third copy of this book that I have purchased."
"The sentiments of various people and groups towards oil (good or bad) were negligible in the book which gave it almost a sterile feel. I now have a much stronger understanding of just how oil plays its enormous role in the global society. I can't say enough about how well this book informs its reader in an enjoyable and insightful way. It may at points be dry material, but in no way did i feel like this book was written over my head."
"Although concentrated on the oil industry, this book is really an incredible history of the twentieth century, which makes a lot of sense considering the paramount of oil to that era and now."
"This is a long book, but if you want to write a comprehensive story of oil and its impact on the economy spanning more than a century, it's going to be long."
"This is one of the best histories of the Oil Business."
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The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
-- The Economist Phenomenal reviews and sales greeted the hardcover publication of The Big Rich, New York Times bestselling author Bryan Burrough's spellbinding chronicle of Texas oil. The saga begins heroically in the early 20th-century oil boom, with wildcatters roaming the Texas countryside drilling one dry hole after another, scrounging money and fending off creditors until gushers of black gold redeem them. In this riveting history, Burrough charts the decades-long rush that made Texas oil into a political and economic powerhouse through the lives of the four great barons: Hugh Roy Cullen, Clint Murchison, Sid Richardson, and H. L. Hunt. The fortunes of the Big Four swelled during the Second World War, when the United States was the world�s leading producer of crude, but by the nineteen-eighties Middle Eastern oil was ascendant, and the barons� legacies had �dissolved into a sordid litany of debauchery, family feuds, scandals, and murder.� Burrough brings each of his outsized subjects brilliantly to life, pitching their individual epics against a grand narrative of rise and decline.
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"Great read into the elly of the discovery of oil in the South & Southwest."
"Th3 story of the greatest capitalists of the 29th century."
"historically informative."
"Raised in oil country, this seems to be quite an accurate historical account.."
"If you're from Texas or not, you'll remember a lot of these things happening but maybe not in depth - the Hunt silver debacle, Cullen starting U of H, Dallas Cowboy history and so much more."
"Engrossing Book."
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Myths, Lies and Oil Wars
The myth of oil scarcity has allowed four giant corporations--ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Chevron--along with a handful of Wall Street and London banks to control the world's most important energy commodity, oil. Truth is that the world is running into oil, not running out of oil. F. William Engdahl discusses little-known details of wars and manipulations designed over the past half century or more-- wars in Africa, the mis-named Arab Spring, Iraq, Afghanistan, all to maintain a lock-grip control of the world's known oilfields. Were its implications understood widely, oil and gas would be considered as virtually a renewable energy and our energy crises and wars a thing of the past. The converse is also true--If oil cannot be controlled the controlling powers lose their control over other nations and the wars that go with it. F. William Engdahl is is an internationbal best-selling author whose books on geopolitics and economics have been published in twelve languages.
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"Very interesting read for a side of history not read in classrooms, starting with the reason for the Crusades."
"This is the real story of abiotic (non biotic based) oil deep in the earth."
"Wars have never solved any problems, they have always and always will cause another war."
"It's a must read book that will reveal the reality behind this natural resource that is not so limited as they've told us!"
"Mr. Engdahl has proven in this book that the facts - as we learn about them in the daily mainstream media - most often than not, obscure the truth. Truth is not always an easy concept to assimilate; especially if it's a truth that collides with mainstream indoctrination and brainwashing."
"Unfortunately that will never happen because, like the oil companies, the deep state also controls the educational system and the news media, e.g., global warming errr climate change, oil comes from dinosaurs, ... Perhaps we can look forward to an illuminating Engdahl book spotlighting Big Pharma."
"(Caution: ebooks are being edited) Oil is a perfect example; read A Century of War, then read Myths, Lies . Mar 16th 2013 newspaper article - "Obama: US must shift vehicles off oil" don't suppose he should read Engdahl's Myths, and Lies but Obama is not in control!"
"Myths, Lies, and Oil Wars is a very enlightening book."
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Best Thermodynamics

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat: Volume 1
Ranging from the basic principles of Newtonian physics through such formidable theories as general relativity and quantum mechanics, Feynman's lectures stand as a monument of clear exposition and deep insight. The late Richard P. Feynman was Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology.
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"Here is my assessment of the quality of printing of the new Millennium edition putting is side by side with the 1966 edition. I love FLP but the printing quality of the Millennium edition does leave a bad taste in mouth. Below is the set this review is for. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set: The New Millennium Edition. The new edition can be fully read online legally for free. www dot feynmanlectures dot info. The errata for all editions can be found in the same website above. Below are the better printed edition (use errata from above). The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Commemorative Issue, Three Volume Set. The Feynman Lectures on Physics including Feynman's Tips on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Three Volume Set. The Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 Volume Set) (Set v). The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Three Volume Set). Basically any edition other than the Millennium hardcover or paperback edition should be good used with the errata posted above."
"Although the intellectual value of the books is enormous, the poor quality of the package and protection i experienced screwed up my first impression of the product."
"Then, he will apply the actual physics."
"Books arrived in decent condition, could have been a bit more padded for shipping as one corner of the slipcase was dented."
"Purchased in November 1998 and I have not found a better physics audio."
"Perfect gift set."
"It is really a rare thing to have upper division/grad level physics summerized in a beautiful way as a handy reference/refresher."
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Best Polymer Chemistry Engineering

A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
A Perfect Red recounts the colorful history of cochineal, a legendary red dye that was once one of the world's most precious commodities. "Elusive, expensive and invested with powerful symbolism, red cloth became the prize possession of the wealthy and well-born," Greenfield writes in her intricate, fully researched and stylishly written history of Europe's centuries-long clamor for cochineal, a dye capable of producing the "brightest, strongest red the Old World had ever seen." Striving to maintain a trade monopoly, Spain fiercely guarded the secrets of cochineal cultivation in Mexico and only after centuries of speculation (was the red powder derived from plant or animal?). Greenfield recounts the wild, clandestine attempts by adventurer naturalists to cultivate both the cochineal insect and its host plant, nopal, beyond their native Mexico, acts of folly driven by the desire for scientific fame and commercial profit. Native to Mexico, the scale insect cochineal was first harvested as a dyestuff by the ancient Aztecs, and once its properties were discovered by European conquistadors, it became the quarry in an international race to obtain a monopoly on its production.
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"A good read about something I seldom think about; that is, the history of color."
"The timing is perfect because I am visiting Oaxaca Mexico as I read the book and I have just finished a history of the Mexican Conquest by Cortes."
"Well written and researched."
"After reading A Perfect Red by Amy Greenfield I can see there is lots of information, and this book has it. This book goes into everything about the color red; where it was made, how it was made, who made it, and more."
"Loved reading this book."
"Greenfield does a wonderful job of describing the importance of the color red throughout history and the different compounds used to create it. Weaving the domestication of cochineal with the efforts of other countries to destroy Spain's monopoly, the book moves quickly."
"Who would have thought the history of the color red could be so interesting, but it was."
"Reading this book is an interesting way to follow history while learning more about the color red and the dyeing process."
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