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Creating and Transforming the Twentieth Century, Revised and Expanded: Technical Innovations and Their Lasting Impact Vaclav Smil 9780197784648
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €33.19Creating and Transforming the Twentieth Century combines two of Vaclav Smil's seminal works in a revised and expanded edition. Creating the Twentieth Century explores the period between 1867 and... -
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going by Vaclav Smil
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €22.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593297063Author Vaclav SmilFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
Should We Eat Meat?: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory Vaclav Smil (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada) 9781118278727
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €34.05Meat 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... -
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going by Vaclav Smil 9780593297087
RRP: €22.61Booksplease Price: €14.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green by Henry Sanderson
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.67'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable of making it a better one than the dirty and... -
Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green by Henry Sanderson 9780861546190
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable of making it a better one than the dirty and... -
Technology and American Economic Growth by Nathan Rosenberg 9780873321044
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €58.92In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth". Updating and expanding its basic arguments and perceptions, this volume is an inquiry... -
The Children of the Anthropocene: Stories from the Young People at the Heart of the Climate Crisis by Bella Lack
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47'An inspirational manifesto for change' Caroline Lucas, former leader of The Green Party 'A remarkable and important book' Steve Backshall, Naturalist, Broadcaster, and Author'Astute, erudite and... -
How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers by Fred Spier 9781032230405
RRP: €90.43Booksplease Price: €80.33How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers offers a simple and novel theoretical approach to understanding the history of the biosphere, including humanity's place within... -
Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now by John Doerr 9780241537770
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79#1 bestselling author and acclaimed venture capitalist John Doerr reveals a sweeping action plan to conquer humanity's greatest challenge: climate change.In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore's An... -
Superbugs (WIRED guides): How to prevent the next global health threat by Victoria Turk
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.13The number of people dying due to drug-resistant diseases is rising every year. What medical weapons and technologies are being developed to stop this existential threat to all of us? In this... -
The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.70In The Quest, master storyteller, leading energy expert and Pulitzer prize-winner for The Prize, Daniel Yergin shows us how energy is the ultimate engine of global political and economic change, in a... -
The Global Imperative: An Interpretive History Of The Spread Of Humankind Robert P Clark 9780813331812
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.82Robert Clark delves into 100 millennia of human history to create a unified and consistent explanation for humankind's inner need to spread itself across the globe. He examines key events from... -
Braver New World: The Countries Daring to Do Things Others Won’t by John Kampfner 9781805462507
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €19.48'Compelling and compassionate' Sadiq Khan'Solutions-focused authorship at its best' Andrew Roberts'A how-to book with inspired answers to our urgent questions' Lyse Doucet'Read this book as an... -
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them) Tom Chivers 9781474619974
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious - 'X people develop cancer every year' - and sometimes less obvious... -
The New Geographies of Energy: Assessment and Analysis of Critical Landscapes by Karl S. Zimmerer 9781138810372
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €51.62The New Geographies of Energy: Assessment and Analysis of Critical Landscapes is a pioneering collection of new geographic scholarship. It examines such vitally important research topics as energy... -
The Subterranean Forest: Energy Systems and the Industrial Revolution by Rolf Peter Sieferle 9781874267539
Booksplease Price: €34.01"The Subterrranean Forest" studies the historical transition from the agrarian solar energy regime to the use of fossil energy, which has fuelled the industrial transformation of the last 200 years... -
Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization by Robert Ayres 9783319808352
RRP: €95.19Booksplease Price: €90.20This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers... -
Global Energy Shifts: Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age by Bruce Podobnik
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €24.86In the latter part of the nineteenth century, the citizens of Great Britain faced a formidable challenge: coal resources seemed destined to run out and commentators were unable to foresee a viable... -
Currents of the Universal Being: Explorations in the Literature of Energy by Scott Slovic 9780896729285
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €29.75Energy scholar Vaclav Smil wrote in 2003, "Tug at any human use of energy and you will find its effects cascading throughout society." Too often public discussions of energy-related issues become... -
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Global Energy Shifts: Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age by Bruce Podobnik 9781592132935 [USED COPY]
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €18.30In the latter part of the nineteenth century, the citizens of Great Britain faced a formidable challenge: coal resources seemed destined to run out and commentators were unable to foresee a viable... -
Global Energy Shifts: Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age by Bruce Podobnik 9781592132935
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €72.22In the latter part of the nineteenth century, the citizens of Great Britain faced a formidable challenge: coal resources seemed destined to run out and commentators were unable to foresee a viable... -
Companion to Environmental Studies Noel Castree (University of Manchester, UK) 9781138192201
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €64.31Companion to Environmental Studies presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, debates, concepts, approaches and questions that together define environmental studies... -
A New Principles of Economics: The Science of Markets by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath 9780367557201
RRP: €166.60Booksplease Price: €146.67Despite the dynamic development of the discipline of economics, the ways in which economics is taught and how it defines its basic principles have hardly changed, resulting in economics being... -
A New Principles of Economics: The Science of Markets by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
RRP: €69.01Booksplease Price: €61.98Despite the dynamic development of the discipline of economics, the ways in which economics is taught and how it defines its basic principles have hardly changed, resulting in economics being... -
Heat, Power and Light: Revolutions in Energy Services Roger Fouquet 9781849800075
RRP: €55.87Booksplease Price: €52.50What happens when a radically-new fuel or technology transforms the energy system? How does the energy system evolve at different stages of economic development? What are the implications for... -
The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements John M. Polimeni 9781138866959
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.33The Jevons Paradox , which was first expressed in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons in relation to use of coal, states that an increase in efficiency in using a resource leads to increased use of that... -
Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present by Daniel R. Headrick 9780691154329
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.20For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet... -
Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present by Daniel R. Headrick 9780691139333
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €65.57For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet... -
Is China Buying the World? Peter Nolan (University of Cambridge) 9780745660783
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €48.25China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29 companies in the FT 500 list of the world's largest... -
Is China Buying the World? Peter Nolan (University of Cambridge) 9780745660790
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.23China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29 companies in the FT 500 list of the world's largest... -
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It Alex Edmans 9780241630181
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'A powerful and punchy explanation of why misinformation is a problem that affects us all. Timely and very provocative!' - Gillian Tett, Editor-at-Large, Financial Times'Not only brilliantly... -
Phosphorus: Past and Future by Bierman Professor of Ecology Jim Elser
Booksplease Price: €34.97Phosphorus is essential to the production of our food, and it also triggers algal blooms in lakes, rivers, and oceans when it slips through our hands. An understanding of this essential resource and... -
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It by Alex Edmans 9780241630167
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34'A powerful and punchy explanation of why misinformation is a problem that affects us all. Timely and very provocative!' - Gillian Tett, Editor-at-Large, Financial Times'Not only brilliantly... -
Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization by Robert Ayres 9783319305448
RRP: €95.19Booksplease Price: €91.15This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a... -
The Thread of Energy by Martin J. Pasqualetti 9780199394807
RRP: €117.81Booksplease Price: €107.46Energy weaves the tapestry of our lives, and it does so in more ways than we usually recognize. While it is clear that it powers our homes, airplanes, and factories, its overwhelming influence often...