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The Quest - by Daniel Yergin (Paperback)

The Quest - by  Daniel Yergin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "The Prize." Now, Yergin shows how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes . . ." --<i>Wall Street Journal</i> <p/>"It is a cause for celebration that Yergin has returned with his perspective on a very different landscape . . . [I]t is impossible to think of a better introduction to the essentials of energy in the 21st century. <i>The Quest</i> is . . . the definitive guide to how we got here." --<i>The Financial Times</i> <p/>This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>The Prize</i> provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change</b> <p/>A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, <i>The Prize</i>. In <i>The Quest</i>, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them. <p/> <i>The Quest</i> tells the inside stories, tackles the tough questions, and reveals surprising insights about coal, electricity, and natural gas. He explains how climate change became a great issue and leads readers through the rebirth of renewable energies, energy independence, and the return of the electric car. Epic in scope and never more timely, <i>The Quest </i>vividly reveals the decisions, technologies, and individuals that are shaping our future.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Mr. Yergin is back with a sequel to <i>The Prize</i>. It is called <i>The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World</i>, and, if anything, it's an even better book. It is searching, impartial and alarmingly up to date . . . <i>The Quest</i> will be necessary reading for C.E.O.'s, conservationists, lawmakers, generals, spies, tech geeks, thriller writers, ambitious terrorists and many others . . . <i>The Quest</i> is encyclopedic in its ambitions; it resists easy synopsis." <b>--Dwight Garner, </b><br><i><b>The New York Times</b><br></i><br>"A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes . . . The tale is generously sprinkled with facts debunking common misperceptions, and Mr. Yergin sagely analyzes how well the energy industry really works." --<b><i>Wall Street Journal</i></b> <p/>"It is a cause for celebration that Yergin has returned with his perspective on a very different landscape . . . [I]t is impossible to think of a better introduction to the essentials of energy in the 21st century. In Yergin's lucid, easy prose, the 800 pages flow freely . . . <i>The Quest</i> is . . . the definitive guide to how we got here." --<b><i>The Financial Times</i></b> <p/>"An important book . . . a valuable primer on the basic issues that define energy today. Yergin is careful in his analysis and never polemical . . . Despite that, <i>The Quest</i> makes it clear that energy policy is not on the right course anywhere in the world and that everyone--on the left and the right, in the developed and the developing world--need to rethink strongly held positions." --<b>Fareed Zakaria, <i>New York Times Book Review</i></b> <p/>"Mr Yergin's previous book, <i>The Prize</i>, a history of the global oil industry, had the advantage of an epic tale and wondrous timing . . . <i>The Quest</i>, as its more open-ended title suggests, is a broader and more ambitious endeavour . . . <i>The Quest </i>is a masterly piece of work and, as a comprehensive guide to the world's great energy needs and dilemmas, it will be hard to beat." --<b><i>The Economist</i></b> <p/>"<i>The Quest </i>is a book--a tour de force, really--that evaluates the alternatives to oil so broadly and deeply that the physical tome could double as a doorstop . . . It is best read slowly, perhaps one chapter per day maximum, if the goal is to actually absorb the rich detail and sometimes complicated workings described by Yergin." --<b><i>USA Today</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of <i>The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil</i>, <i>Money & Power</i>, T<i>he Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World</i>, and <i>Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War</i>, and coauthor of <i>Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy</i>. He is vice chairman of IHS Markit, one of the leading information and research firms in the world, a member of the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, a senior trustee of the Brookings Institution, and has served on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under the last four presidential administrations. <p/><br><i><br></i>

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