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  • China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development

    In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth", a disturbing book. This new volume, drawn on a much broader canvas, updates and expands on the basic arguments and perceptions of "The Bad Earth"....
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  • China's Past, China's Future by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    China's Past, China's Future

    China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, is the result of a lifetime of study, and provides the fullest account yet of the environmental...
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  • Energy and Civilization Lib/E: A History by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Energy and Civilization Lib/E: A History

    Author: Vaclav SmilISBN-10: 8200556174ISBN-13: 9798200556175Publisher: Gildan Media CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2018Format: CD
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  • Energy and Civilization: A History by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Energy and Civilization: A History

    A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization."I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A...
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  • Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties

    An objective, comprehensive, and accessible examination of today's most crucial problem: preserving the environment in the face of society's insatiable demand for energy.In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern world's unceasing demand for...
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  • Energy in Nature and Society by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems

    A comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy in nature and society, from solar radiation and photosynthesis to our fossil fuelled civilization and its environmental consequences.Energy in Nature and Society is a systematic and exhaustive analysis of all the major energy sources,...
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  • Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate

    There are many misconceptions about the future of global energy often presented as fact by the media, politicians, business leaders, activists, and even scientists--wasting time and money and hampering the development of progressive energy policies. Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy...
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  • Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects

    This bold and controversial argument shows why energy transitions are inherently complex and prolonged affairs, and how ignoring this fact raises unrealistic expectations that the United States and other global economies can be weaned quickly from a primary dependency on fossil fuels. Energy transitions...
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  • Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Energy: A Beginner's Guide

    With one famous equation, E=mc2, Einstein proved all matter can be described as energy. It is everywhere and it is everything. In this newly updated and engaging introduction, renowned scientist Vaclav Smil explores energy in all its facets - from the inner workings of...
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  • Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production

    Dr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer.The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern world than the invention of the airplane, nuclear energy, space flight, or television. The expansion of the world's...
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  • Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next 50 Years by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next 50 Years

    A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at global changes that may occur over the next fifty years--whether sudden and cataclysmic world-changing events or gradually unfolding trends.Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways: as a "fatal discontinuity," a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially...
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  • Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made

    From one of the world's leading experts on the history of energy, a rigorous examination of the transitions that structure our modern world--and the environmental reckoning that will mark its success or failure. What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively...
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  • Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made

    From one of the world's leading experts on the history of energy, a rigorous examination of the transitions that structure our modern world--and the environmental reckoning that will mark its success or failure. What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively...
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  • Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities

    A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes...
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  • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors... [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world's toughest challenges."--Bill Gates "Provocative but...
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  • Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure

    From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity--and its attendant breakthroughs and busts. Included in BILL GATES's 2023 Holiday Reading List
Included in Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2023
Included in The Next Big Idea Club's February 2023...
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  • Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing

    An overview of the state of manufacturing in America--both past and present--and how this sector and the jobs it creates are essential to the American economy "There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil." --Bill Gates In Made in...
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  • Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing

    In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a pure service economy. Smil argues that no advanced economy can prosper...
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  • Making the Modern World by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Making the Modern World

    How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. Over the course of time,...
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  • Materials and Dematerialization: Making the Modern World by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Materials and Dematerialization: Making the Modern World

    Der weltbekannte Wissenschaftler Vaclav Smil analysiert das kritische Thema der nachhaltigen Ressourcennutzung, das für Forschung und Politik von gro em Interesse ist Im Laufe der Zeit ist die moderne Welt von Materialströmen in ungeahntem Ausma abhängig geworden. Selbst die effizientesten Produktionsverfahren und ein grö...
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  • Natural Gas by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Natural Gas

    Natural gas is the world's cleanest fossil fuel; it generates less air pollution and releases less CO2 per unit of useful energy than liquid fuels or coals. With its vast supplies of conventional resources and nonconventional stores, the extension of long-distance gas pipelines and...
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  • Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World

    "Vaclav Smil is my favorite author... Numbers Don't Lie takes everything that makes his writing great and boils it down into an easy-to-read format. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning."--Bill Gates, GatesNotes From the author of How the World Really...
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  • Oil: A Beginner's Guide by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Oil: A Beginner's Guide

    World acclaimed scientist Vaclav Smil reveals everything there is to know about nature's most sought-after resource Oil is the lifeblood of the modern world. Without it, there would be no planes, no plastic, no exotic produce, and a global political landscape few would recognise....
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  • Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses

    The first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, and all common energy uses."There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil."--Bill GatesIn this book, Vaclav Smil argues that...
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  • Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines

    The story of how diesel engines and gas turbines, used to power cargo ships and jet airplanes, made today's globally integrated economy possible.The many books on globalization published over the past few years range from claims that the world is flat to an unlikely...
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  • Should We Eat Meat?: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Should We Eat Meat?: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory

    Meat eating is often a contentious subject, whether considering the technical, ethical, environmental, political, or health-related aspects of production and consumption. This book is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination and critique of meat consumption by humans, throughout their evolution and around the world. Setting...
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  • Size: The Measure of All Things by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Size: How It Explains the World

    From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness"No one writes about...
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  • Size: How It Explains the World by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Size: How It Explains the World

    From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness"No one writes about...
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  • Size: How It Explains the World by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Size: How It Explains the World

    Author: Vaclav SmilISBN-10: 0063324105ISBN-13: 9780063324107Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2024Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.31w x 0.68d
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  • Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World

    Although the last two generations have seen an enormous amount of attention paid to advances in electronics, the fact remains that high-income, high-energy societies could thrive without microchips, etc., but, by contrast, could not exist without steel. Because of the importance of this material...
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