The quest

energy, security and the remaking of the modern world

Hardcover, 804 pages

English language

Published Jan. 12, 2011 by Penguin Press.

ISBN:
978-1-59420-283-4
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OCLC Number:
707969108

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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 …

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Subjects

  • Power resources
  • Globalization
  • Political aspects
  • Money