{"product_id":"the-quest-isbn-9780143121947","title":"The Quest","description":"\u003cb\u003e“A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes . . .” —\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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. \u003ci\u003eThe Quest\u003c\/i\u003e is . . . the definitive guide to how we got here.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Prize\u003c\/i\u003e provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, \u003ci\u003eThe Prize\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eThe Quest\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Quest\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Quest \u003c\/i\u003evividly reveals the decisions, technologies, and individuals that are shaping our future.“Mr. Yergin is back with a sequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Prize\u003c\/i\u003e. It is called \u003ci\u003eThe Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e, and, if anything, it’s an even better book. It is searching, impartial and alarmingly up to date . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Quest\u003c\/i\u003e will be necessary reading for C.E.O.’s, conservationists, lawmakers, generals, spies, tech geeks, thriller writers, ambitious terrorists and many others . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Quest\u003c\/i\u003e is encyclopedic in its ambitions; it resists easy synopsis.” \u003cb\u003e—Dwight Garner,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Quest\u003c\/i\u003e is . . . the definitive guide to how we got here.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eThe Quest\u003c\/i\u003e 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.” —\u003cb\u003eFareed Zakaria, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mr Yergin’s previous book, \u003ci\u003eThe Prize\u003c\/i\u003e, a history of the global oil industry, had the advantage of an epic tale and wondrous timing . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Quest\u003c\/i\u003e, as its more open-ended title suggests, is a broader and more ambitious endeavour . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Quest \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Quest \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eDaniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMoney \u0026amp; Power\u003c\/i\u003e, T\u003ci\u003ehe Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eShattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e, and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eCommanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300696412389,"sku":"NP9780143121947","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143121947.jpg?v=1767741133","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-quest-isbn-9780143121947","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}