The Quest Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Authors: Daniel Yergin
ISBN-10: 0143121944
ISBN-13: 9780143121947
Edition: Updated, Revised, Reprint
Released: 2012-09-26
Paperback: 832 pages

In this gripping account of the quest for the energy that our world needs, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Prize. A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change. It is a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them. From the jammed streets of Beijing to the shores of the Caspian Sea, from the conflicts in the Mideast to Capitol Hill and Silicon Valley, Yergin takes us into the decisions that are shaping our future.
The drama of oil-the struggle for access, the battle for control, the insecurity of supply, the consequences of use, its impact on the global economy, and the geopolitics that dominate it-continues to profoundly affect our world. Yergin tells the inside stories of the oil market and the surge in oil prices, the race to control the ..
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