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One Life at a Time is a chronicle of the ancestors of the author's children as they arrived in the New World, what propelled them from Britain, Ireland and Korea, and what happened to them and their descendants once they took root in America -- one life at a time. This crisp narrative focuses on the history and development of New England and its people while illuminating episodes of the American experience spanning more than three centuries as lived by ordinary people forging a New World
This notebook, attributed to Thomas Collins, is a collection of miscellaneous writings of 1759. Part of the volume is poetry, often humorous and frequently unsigned, including one poem by Joseph Green (1706-1780). The rest of the book contains academic notes on French vocabulary and European history, and personal reflections. His reflections cover a variety of subjects including religion and lawmaking.
Collins presents the behind-the-scenes account of tumultuous upheavals in the oil industry between 1995-2002 as industry seeks to gain access to vital petroleum resources overseas.
"White Monkey" describes an oilman's travels to his ancestral headwaters in Ireland and Britain to investigate the origins of his own beginnings and later to his wife's home in Korea. While on this journey, the author paints a telling portrait of today's oil industry and its interconnection with nations and trade.
Collins presents a chronicle of journal entries written between 1980 and 1988 by a journalist who worked for Mobil Oil Corporation, which at the time was at the center of the energy crisis. When edited later, the author found his journal also revealed a story of redemption for a father and son.
Blue Dragon - Reckoning in the South China Sea, an account of the effort by Mobil to return to Vietnam, is a behind the scenes account of a politically sensitive oil project that many believed would be a key to the political balance of power in the South East Asia.