The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World. Daniel Yergin

By Stewart Binns

Book Overview

In The Quest, master storyteller, leading energy expert and Pulitzer prize-winner for The Prize, Daniel Yergin shows us how energy is the ultimate engine of global political and economic change, in a gripping story that spans the old energies on which our civilization has been built, the new energies that are competing to replace them, and the battle over climate change. Epic in scope and never more timely, The Quest vividly reveals the decisions, technologies, and individuals that are shaping our future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 024195777X
• ISBN13: 9780241957776
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: PenguinBooks
• Length: 816 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher