 | The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power by Daniel Yergin
Buy used from: $2.81 An all-encompassing history
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 | The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version by Ida M. Tarbell
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $6.99 History leading to the Supreme Court breaking up Standard Oil
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 | Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
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 | All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer
Buy new: $9.72 / Used from: $7.50 Iran nationalizes its oil industry. Britain and America respond
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 | Arabian Sands (Penguin Classics) by Wilfred Thesiger
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $9.22 Arabia before oil
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 | Oil, God, and Gold: The Story of Aramco and the Saudi Kings by Anthony Cave Brown
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 | Search for Security: Saudi Arabian Oil and American Foreign Policy, 1939-1949 by Aaron David Miller
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 | Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $7.18 A novel on how Arabia dealt with oil which cost Munif his Saudi citizenship
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 | Arabia Without Sultans by Fred Halliday
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 | Oil and Politics in the Gulf: Rulers and Merchants in Kuwait and Qatar (Cambridge Middle East Library) by Jill Crystal
Buy new: $31.39 / Used from: $16.00 Kuwait and Qatar, before and after oil.
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 | Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC's Windfalls and Pitfalls by Jahangir Amuzegar
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 | Genie Out of the Bottle: World Oil since 1970 by M. A. Adelman
Buy used from: $16.90 A sample work from a great oil economist
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| Yamani: The Inside Story by Jeffrey Robinson
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 | Oil Monarchies by F. Gregory Gause
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $9.44 The pressures from low oil prices
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 | Energy and Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Buy new: $25.88 / Used from: $15.00 Sensible and comprehensive
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 | The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States (Studies in International Political Economy) by Terry Lynn Karl
Buy new: $23.18 / Used from: $16.00 The political economy of oil
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 | Oil Wars by Mary Kaldor
Buy new: $33.36 / Used from: $29.57 Does oil lead to war?
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 | The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Grove Art) by Paul Collier
Buy new: $23.94 / Used from: $11.83 Not strictly about oil but a fresh and comprehensive look into the resource curse
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 | Escaping the Resource Curse (Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization)
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $19.45 How to spend oil money
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 | Oil Titans: National Oil Companies in the Middle East by Valerie Marcel
Buy used from: $78.72 A look into the national oil companies which control so much of the world's oil
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 | Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy by Matthew R. Simmons
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.93 Is Saudi Arabia running out?
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 | Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict With a New Introduction by the Author by Michael T. Klare
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.49 Hugely influential, even if weak at times
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 | The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World by Paul Roberts
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 | The Coming Oil Crisis by C. J. Campbell
Buy new: $35.95 / Used from: $25.99 Peak oil
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 | Power to the People: How the Coming Energy Revolution Will Transform an Industry, Change Our Lives, and Maybe Even Save the Planet by Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
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 | ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future by Vijay Vaitheeswaran
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 | Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040
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 | Crude Awakenings: Global Oil Security and American Foreign Policy by Steve A. Yetiv
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 | The Asian Energy Factor: Myths and Dilemmas of Energy, Security and the Pacific Future by Robert A. Manning
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 | Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank by Lisa Margonelli
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