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From the Erzgebirge to Potosi: A History of Geology and Mining Since the 1500's
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4.94 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Oilfield Survival Guide, Volume One: For All Oilfield Situations
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4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899
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4.24 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay 1897-1899
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4.36 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
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4.01 avg rating — 2,882 ratings
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Arizona Ghost Towns and Mining Camps: A Travel Guide to History
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3.68 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Southen California's Best Ghost Towns
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Ghost Towns of Northern California
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3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
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4.44 avg rating — 12,839 ratings
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Leadville: A Miner's Epic
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3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
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3.78 avg rating — 789 ratings
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Barren Lands: An Epic Search For Diamonds in the North American Arctic
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4.41 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Indian Country
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4.09 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Groundbreaking! America's New Quest for Mineral Independence
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
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3.95 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
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4.32 avg rating — 637 ratings
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Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 24,457 ratings
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
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4.39 avg rating — 37,923 ratings
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
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4.05 avg rating — 1,717 ratings
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Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier
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3.63 avg rating — 131 ratings
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The Fight for Coal Mine Health and Safety: A Documented History
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880
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3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Flames of Discontent: The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike
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4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 2nd Edition (Volume 16) (WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA)
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4.35 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Twilight of the Jackass Prospector: Death Valley Area Portraits of the 1930's
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Coal Dust on the Fiddle: Songs and Stories of the Bituminous Industry
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21
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4.18 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Western Mining
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4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Goldenseal Book of the West Virginia Mine Wars
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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De Re Metallica
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4.25 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won
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3.69 avg rating — 2,695 ratings
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Mining the Sky: Untold Riches From The Asteroids, Comets, And Planets (Helix Book)
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4.12 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Matewan Before the Massacre: Politics, Coal and the Roots of Conflict in a West Virginia Mining Community
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3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Money Mountain: The Story of Cripple Creek Gold
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4.12 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia: Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Deep Enough: A Working Stiff in the Western Mine Camps
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4.51 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Copper;: The encompassing story of mankind's first metal,
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Collapse of Dignity: The Story of a Mining Tragedy and the Fight Against Greed and Corruption in Mexico
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4.08 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Only a Miner: Studies in Recorded Coal-Mining Songs
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4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Ghost Towns of Colorado: Your Guide to Colorado's Historic Mining Camps and Ghost Towns
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4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Auraria: The Story of a Georgia Gold Mining Town
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4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
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4.14 avg rating — 669 ratings
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Ghost Towns of the Mountain West: Your Guide to the Hidden History and Old West Haunts of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Mont
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3.73 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The History of the Standard Oil Company (Unexpurgated Edition)
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3.91 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Ghost Towns of California: Your Guide to the Hidden History and Old West Haunts of California
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4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings
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When Miners March
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4.26 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place
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3.41 avg rating — 98 ratings
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A Ray of Light: Reinhard Heydrich, Lidice, and the North Staffordshire Miners
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4.19 avg rating — 31 ratings
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History of Mining in Arizona (Volume II)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
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3.83 avg rating — 145 ratings
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History of Mining in Arizona (Volume I)
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
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3.83 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
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Cinnabar Hills: The Quicksilver Days of New Almaden
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Oil: Anatomy of an Industry (Bazaar Book)
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3.54 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Mountains of ore and rivers of gold: Stories of a contemporary prospector
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
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4.24 avg rating — 10,584 ratings
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The History Of The Comstock Lode (Special Publication (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology), 24.)
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3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Blood, Oil, and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941
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3.82 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Midas of the rockies;: The story of Stratton and Cripple Creek
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4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Drugs, Oil & War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia & Indochina
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4.03 avg rating — 112 ratings
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A Passion For Gold: An Autobiography
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City
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3.65 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
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3.75 avg rating — 442 ratings
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Gold-camp drifter, 1906-1910
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Secret World of Oil
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3.50 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Going to Stay: How George W. Bush Mired America in the Long War for Oil & Empire
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Odyssey of a Desert Prospector
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire
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4.15 avg rating — 687 ratings
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Steel: From Mine to Mill, the Metal that Made America
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4.06 avg rating — 71 ratings
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A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas
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3.62 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Men To Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West 1840-1900
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4.11 avg rating — 1,326 ratings
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Poison Tea: How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the GOP
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3.76 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Ghost Towns Alive: Trips to New Mexico's Past
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3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
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3.89 avg rating — 2,780 ratings
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A History of Metallurgy (2nd Edition)
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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unspOILed: Writers Speak for Florida's Coast
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The making of a hardrock miner: An account of the experiences of a worker in copper, molybdenum, and uranium mines in the West
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4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
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3.98 avg rating — 4,861 ratings
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A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
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3.73 avg rating — 194 ratings
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The Great Penguin Rescue: 40,000 Penguins, a Devastating Oil Spill, and the Inspiring Story of the World's Largest Animal Rescue
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3.96 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Dirty Gold: The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring
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3.86 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Gold: The Race for the World’s Most Seductive Metal
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3.51 avg rating — 466 ratings
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Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth
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3.46 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
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3.61 avg rating — 439 ratings
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Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction
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4.26 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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4.38 avg rating — 7,176 ratings
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
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3.72 avg rating — 4,446 ratings
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Workers
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4.72 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Africa
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4.70 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
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4.32 avg rating — 791 ratings
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Fighting King Coal: The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia
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4.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
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3.98 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Coal River
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3.98 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal
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3.55 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Energy: A Human History
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3.75 avg rating — 1,963 ratings
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Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast (History of the Urban Environment, 66)
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3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
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4.17 avg rating — 6,032 ratings
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Coal Wars: The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet
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3.70 avg rating — 92 ratings
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