The Prize is a vast panorama of world history since the 1860s, held together by focus on a commodity that everyone needs and wants to control. « previous 1 2 next » sort by « previous 1 2 next » Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author.

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IN 1891, Abdul Rahman, the nominal governor of Riyadh, fled with his. Books by Daniel Yergin (Author of The Prize) Books by Daniel Yergin Daniel Yergin Average rating 4.29 He analyzes competition and conflict in the Middle East at length. THE PRIZE The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. Yergin carefully details how access to oil largely determined the outcome of two world wars, before turning attention to regions of marginal international importance that took center stage during the Cold War. be removed from the service on the 14th of May.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as the best history of oil ever. The early chapters show the establishment of the great oil companies and the adaptation of governments and societies to booms and busts, benefits and threats. Daniel Yergin, the vice chairman of IHS Markit and Pulitzer Prize winner, presents a keynote and fireside chat on his new book, 'The New Map: Energy, Climate. The book describes the way the relentless advance of technology brought out the best and worst in human nature.

Few areas of the earth are excluded from treatment in this vast saga, but even these (Antarctica and Greenland, for instance) are surely touched by oil's effects. The philosopher who rejected a 225,000 prize from the UAE Stuart Braun At nearly 92, Jürgen Habermas is still advocating for a robust and transparent civil society. The Prize tells the story of how a natural resource, known worldwide from antiquity to possess useful properties, came to dominate the world's economy and steer its political fate as technology made possible the transformation of crude oil into commercial products.

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