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Carl Safina has been hailed as one of the top 100 conservations of the 20th century (Audubon Magazine) and A Sea in Flames is his blistering account of the months-long manmade disaster that tormented a region and mesmerized the nation. Traveling across the Gulf to make sense of an ever-changing story and its often-nonsensical twists, Safina expertly deconstructs the series of calamitous misjudgments that caused the Deepwater Horizon blowout, zeroes in on BPâs misstatements, evasions, and denials, reassesses his own reaction to the governmentâs crisis handling, and reviews the consequences of the leakâand what he considers the real problems, which the press largely overlooked. Safina takes us deep inside the faulty thinking that caused the lethal explosion. We join him on aerial surveys across an oil-coated sea. We confront pelicans and other wildlife whose blue universe fades to black. Safina skewers the excuses and the silly jargonâlike âjunk shotâ and âtop killââthat made the tragedy feel like a comedy of horrorsâand highlighted Big Oilâs appalling lack of preparedness for an event that was inevitable. Based on extensive research and interviews with fishermen, coastal residents, biologists, and government officials, A Sea In Flames has some surprising answers on whether it was âObamaâs Katrina,â whether the Coast Guard was as inept in its response as BP was misleading, and whether this worst unintended release of oil in history was really Americaâs worst ecological disaster.                       Impassioned, moving, and even sharply funny, A Sea in Flames is ultimately an indictment of Americaâs main addiction. Safina writes: âIn the end, this is a chronicle of a summer of painâand hope.  Hope that the full potential of this catastrophe would not materialize, hope that the harm done would heal faster than feared, and hope that even if we didnât suffer the absolutely worstâweâd still learn the big lesson here. We may have gotten two out of three.  Thatâs not good enough. Because: thereâll be a next time.â             From the Hardcover edition.
Hardcover:
9780307887351 | Crown Pub, April 19, 2011, cover price $25.00
Paperback:
9780307887368 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, April 19, 2011), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Carl Safina has been hailed as one of the top 100 conservations of the 20th century (Audubon Magazine) and A Sea in Flames is his blistering account of the months-long manmade disaster that tormented a region and mesmerized the nation.
Challenges the beginning playwright to explore the best and most effective ways to tell a story through dramatic form.
Hardcover:
9781619424999 | Nova Science Pub Inc, April 1, 2012, cover price $95.00
Paperback:
9780240801179, titled "Writing Your First Play" | Focal Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $30.95 | also contains Writing Your First Play | About this edition: Challenges the beginning playwright to explore the best and most effective ways to tell a story through dramatic form.
Product Description: On April 20, 2010, the gigantic drilling rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven crew members and causing a massive eruption of oil from BP's Macondo well. For months, oil gushed into the Gulf, spreading death and destruction...read more
Hardcover:
9780262015837 | Mit Pr, October 18, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: On April 20, 2010, the gigantic drilling rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven crew members and causing a massive eruption of oil from BP's Macondo well.
Paperback:
9780262517294 | Mit Pr, February 10, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: On April 20, 2010, the gigantic drilling rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven crew members and causing a massive eruption of oil from BP's Macondo well.
Product Description: Each book in Greenhaven Press's Writing the Critical Essay: An Opposing Viewpoints Guide includes everything necessary to help students research, outline, draft, edit, and ultimately write successful essays across the curriculum.; ; Learning the fundamental principles of essay writing is becoming an ever more important skill for students...read more
Library:
9780737758337 | Greenhaven Pr, November 11, 2011, cover price $38.30 | About this edition: Each book in Greenhaven Press's Writing the Critical Essay: An Opposing Viewpoints Guide includes everything necessary to help students research, outline, draft, edit, and ultimately write successful essays across the curriculum.
Hardcover:
9780470943373 | Turner Pub Co, April 12, 2011, cover price $25.95
Paperback:
9781441976765 | Copernicus Books, September 16, 2011, cover price $19.95
Product Description: Â On April 20, 2010, the Macondo well blew out, costing the lives of 11 men, and beginning a catastrophe that sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and spilled nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The spill disrupted an entire regionâs economy, damaged fisheries and critical habitats, and brought vividly to light the risks of deepwater drilling for oil and gasâthe latest frontier in the national energy supply...read more
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9780160873713 | United States Government Printing, January 11, 2011, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: Â On April 20, 2010, the Macondo well blew out, costing the lives of 11 men, and beginning a catastrophe that sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and spilled nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781441773623 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 15, 2010), cover price $69.00
Product Description: When Deepwater Horizonâs well blew out on April 20, 2010, the resulting explosion claimed eleven lives. Over the next two months, an estimated 200 million gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico, a haven of biodiversity and one of the worldâs prime fishing grounds...read more
Paperback:
9781615190355 | Experiment Llc, October 20, 2010, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: When Deepwater Horizonâs well blew out on April 20, 2010, the resulting explosion claimed eleven lives.
Product Description: Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling five thousand feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the $560 million rig would be indispensable in helping to solve the ongoing energy crisis...read more
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9781441773647 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 15, 2010), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling five thousand feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the $560 million rig would be indispensable in helping to solve the ongoing energy crisis.
9781441773630 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 15, 2010), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling five thousand feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the $560 million rig would be indispensable in helping to solve the ongoing energy crisis.
Product Description: Disaster on the Horizon is a behind-the-scenes investigative look at the worst oil well accident in US history, which led to the current environmental and economic catastrophe on the Gulf Coast. Cavnar uses his 30 years in the business to take readers inside the disaster, exposing the decisions leading up to the blowout and the immediate aftermath...read more
Paperback:
9781603583169 | 1 edition (Chelsea Green Pub Co, October 15, 2010), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Disaster on the Horizon is a behind-the-scenes investigative look at the worst oil well accident in US history, which led to the current environmental and economic catastrophe on the Gulf Coast.
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