[Peakoil] Fwd: "The Oracle of Oil, " first biography of M. King Hubbert, the "father of peak oil"

[Antony Broughton Barry]

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> From: Mason Inman <masoninman at gmail.com>
> Date: 18 April 2016 at 12:10:56 PM AEST
> To: antonybbarry at me.com
> Subject: "The Oracle of Oil," first biography of M. King Hubbert, the "father of peak oil"
> 
> Dear Mr. Barry,
> 
> Given your involvement with ACT Peak Oil, I thought you might like to read my new book, just released by W.W. Norton, The Oracle of Oil: A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future.
> 
> It's the first biography of M. King Hubbert, the "father of peak oil," covering his whole body of work but focused primarily on his peak oil predictions and his wider ideas about energy and society, and limits to growth.
> 
> Last week the book received very positive reviews in both Science and Nature (see below). Those reviews, along with others' comments on the book and links to sites where you can buy the book, are on my website. In Australia it's available through Booktopia, and possibly other retailers.
> 
> For a sense of what the book is like, you can read an excerpt at Scientific American: 
> "How the Prophet of Peak Oil Explained Fracking in the 1950s"
> 
> If the book looks of interest, perhaps you could share the information with the ACT Peak Oil list as well.
> 
> Best regards,
> Mason Inman
> 
> 
> Science: "The Oracle of Oil is a masterful telling of Hubbert’s life and ideas, written by journalist Mason Inman, a knowledgeable and graceful storyteller."
> 
> Nature: "In Hubbert’s story, Inman has found a meditation on the booms and busts that marked twentieth-century economic growth.​... In writing the first biography of Hubbert, Inman has retrieved, if not rescued, the story of a scientist who has much to offer to today’s energy conundrum."
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> Mason Inman, science writer
> 
> author of The Oracle of Oil
> forthcoming from W. W. Norton, April 2016
> http://www.oracleofoil.com
> 
> Twitter & Skype: masoninman
> M: +1-916-527-4014, O: +1-415-508-4493
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