Crude: The Story of Oil
By Sonia Shah
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Shah infuses recent twists in the story with equal drama, through chronicles of colorful modern-day characters — from the hundreds of Nigerian women who stormed a Chevron plant to a monomaniacal scientist for whom life is the pursuit of this earthblood and its elusive secret. Shah moves masterfully between scientific, economic, political, and social analysis, capturing the many sides of the indispensable mineral that we someday may have to find a way to live without.
Sonia Shah
Sonia Shah is a science journalist and the prize-winning author of Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New York Public Library Award for Excellence in Journalism. She has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many others. Her TED talk, “Three Reasons We Still Haven't Gotten Rid of Malaria,” has been viewed by more than one million people around the world. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Reviews for Crude
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5very readable book on a very important topic; the footnotes are disappointing however: that author constantly footnoted quotes or data in the text that look like they would lead to primary sources, but the footnotes indicate secondary sources instead. Also, this book is a case of "preaching to the choir." But it's very accessible and would be an excellent introduction to the topics.