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Barbara 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.

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Elegant 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 *

Coal

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Arrow Books Ltd
      Published 5 January 2006
      ISBN-13 9780099478843
      978-0099478843
      ISBN-10 0099478846
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      Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Economic geology Social and cultural history

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Barbara 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 Review
      Elegant 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 *

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