{"product_id":"9780071761772","title":"Drowning in Oil: BP \u0026 the Reckless Pursuit of Profit","description":"The unprecedented account of how BP's win-at-all-costs culture led to this era's greatest industrial catastrophe  Award-winning \u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e journalist Loren Steffy delivers an authoritative and hard-hitting account of the Deepwater Horizon disaster that reveals how it's only part of a larger pattern of corporate hubris on the part of British Petroleum. Written by the reporter many consider to be closest to BP and the Gulf environmental catastrophe, \u003ci\u003eDrowning in Oil\u003c\/i\u003eis a complete narrative of the British energy giant, as well as the impact its recent miscues will have on both the US economy and global energy markets. \u003cp\u003eFeaturing original, never-before-published interviews with BP executives, environmental experts, and oil industry insiders, this book takes readers behind the scenes to reveal in unprecedented detail BP's win-at-all-costs corporate culture. Steffy covers 100 years of BP corporate history from the conglomerate's early gambits in Persia's oilfields through its role in Winston Churchill's rise to power up to its recent scandals and disasters. Worthy of comparisons to Daniel Yergin's \u003ci\u003eThe Prize\u003c\/i\u003e, and Burrough's and Helyar's \u003ci\u003eBarbarians at the Gate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDrowning in Oil\u003c\/i\u003e will become the definitive account of the energy industry as the industrialized world nears the age of Peak Oil.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cli\u003eExhaustively researched and extensively documented\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eThe first full-length examination of how one of the world's biggest corporations set itself up for failure on an epic scale\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eA no-punches-pulled account of energy, environmentalism, and the intense competition among stakeholders in today's oil markets\u003c\/li\u003e","brand":"McGraw-Hill Education","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119202779376,"sku":"9780071761772","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780071761772_p0.jpg?v=1763636390","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780071761772","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}