The Quest by Daniel Yergin
"A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes . . ." --Wall Street Journal"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. The Quest is . . . the definitive guide to how we got here." --The Financial Times
This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change
A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Prize. In The Quest, 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.
The Quest 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, The Quest vividly reveals the decisions, technologies, and individuals that are shaping our future.
Daniel Yergin, the chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and the Global Energy Expert for CNBC, is a well-known expert on energy, international politics, and economics. Dr. Yergin won the Pulitzer Prize for his number one bestseller The Prize: The Epic Search for Oil, Money, and Power, which was adapted into an eight-hour PBS/BBC series that was seen by 20 million Americans. The book has been translated into a total of 12 different languages. It also won the Eccles Award for best book for a general readership on an economic topic. The Wall Street Journal wrote of Dr. Yergin's subsequent book, Commanding Heights: The Struggle for the Global Economy, No one could ask for a clearer analysis of the world's political and economic fate since WWII.
Dr. Yergin headed the team that turned the book into a six-hour PBS/BBC documentary -- the major PBS television series on globalization. The series got three Emmy nominations, a CINE Golden Eagle Award, and the Gold World Medal for best documentary at the New York Festival. Other publications by Dr. Yergin include Shattered Peace, an award-winning chronicle of the Cold War's origins, Russia 2010 and What It Means for the World (co-authored with Thane Gustafson), and Energy Future: The Report of the Harvard Business School's Energy Project, which he edited with Robert Stobaugh.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143121947 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143121944 |
| Title | The Quest |
| Author | Daniel Yergin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2012-09-26 |
| Number of pages | 864 |
| Prizes | Winner of 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award. |
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