Oil: A Beginner's Guide

By Vaclav Smil

Categories: Science & Math

Vaclav Smil offers a concise, wide-ranging introduction to oil: its origins, how it is found, extracted and refined, its uses, its economic and political importance, and the environmental consequences of an oil-dependent civilization.

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