Description
Book SynopsisBarbara Freese is an environmental attorney and writer, with a particular focus on climate change, energy policy, and corporate social responsibility. She is a former Minnesota assistant attorney general and a former senior policy analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists, and she has represented various environmental and clean energy nonprofit groups working to protect the climate. Her first book,
Coal: A Human History, is a
New York Times Notable Book. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Trade ReviewElegant and engaging... No subject is more important for understanding the recent past and preparing for the future. * Sunday Times *
Engaging and interesting, tightly documented and consistently readable. Freese makes a pasionate plea for a more considered way of treating the earth, its rescources and inhabitants. * Daily Telegraph *
The incredible story of Britain's black gold. * Daily Mail *
Fascinating... It lingers hauntingly in the mind. * New Statesman *
I can think of no substance that has played so important a role in shaping the relative fortunes of competing economies. * David Landes, Author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations *
