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Oil & Gas Pipelines in Nontechnical Language
$79.00
Miesner and Leffler take the mystery out of understanding a critically important element of energy infrastructure. Oil and gas pipelines are essential to the world economy and were even an important topic in the 2008 presidential campaign. Pipelines are installed underground and not well understood. Miesner and Leffler essentially bring pipelines above ground so they can be understood as easily as highway and road systems which we see everyday. This book is the perfect reference for managers and politicians who need to understand the topic, and the perfect introduction for people just entering the industry. The book provides a basic understanding from which someone can begin a more technical investigation.

Pipeline: A Novel of Suspense
$24.99
Take a massive power failure in California and an energy shortage across the U.S, an untested U.S. president with an inexperienced domestic policy advisor, a hard as nails CIA director with her own agenda, and abrasive female environmental activist, and a Russian billionaire plotting to control U.S. natural gas imports. Now mix with sex, blackmail, and murder. Presto, you have //Pipeline//. Author Peter Schechter (writer, consultant, presidential advisor) combines all the elements of a good story, and this is a better than average read.

A few problems, such as why would the President realistically send the CIA director rather than his energy secretary to Russia to negotiate an energy and construction accord, and Jack Daniels is Tennessee whiskey, not Kentucky bourbon do litter the narrative. Plus no reader needs to be told numerous times in numerous ways how the Russian plot will work - once or twice would be sufficient. Readers don't need to know such information as the type of jewelry worn by the CIA director, where the Russian billionaire gets his chefs, the names of the Peruvian senator's twin daughters, or the color of the activist's underwear either. Still, the story moves along at a pretty fair pace. It's the best book that this reviewer has read lately.

Reviewed by Douglas McWilliams

Pipeline
$24.99
We have three children (one of us teams up with the youngest), and even our teenage son laughs and enjoys himself when we get him to play this.