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Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12With 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... -
Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £14.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262536165Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint -
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539685Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 664Imprint -
Speed: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil 9780593834541
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593834541Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
Speed: How it Explains the World by Vaclav Smil 9781405977494
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.37Prepare to view the world through a new lens - SPEED - a groundbreaking exploration that challenges your perceptions of life's driving force, from the internationally bestselling author'There is... -
Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil 9780241992142
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' Bill GatesThe New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.Explaining the key... -
Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil 9780063324107
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063324107Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made by Vaclav Smil 9780197696750
Booksplease Price: £17.29From 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... -
The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change by Vaclav Smil 9780262692984
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Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century by Vaclav Smil 9780262692717
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Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences by Vaclav Smil
Booksplease Price: £91.17This inquiry into the technical advances that shaped the 20th century follows the evolutions of all the principal innovations introduced before 1913 (as detailed in the first volume) as well as the... -
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.39What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization--in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics--which have... -
Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties by Vaclav Smil 9780262693240
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Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £24.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529730Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years by Vaclav Smil 9780262518222
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £16.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262518222Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure Vaclav Smil 9780262551014
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.97From 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... -
Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature by Vaclav Smil 9780262528276
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Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World by Vaclav Smil 9780128042335
Booksplease Price: £42.96Although 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,... -
Energy Transitions: Global and National Perspectives, 2nd Edition by Vaclav Smil 9781440853241
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Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this... -
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.43* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that... -
Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production by Vaclav Smil 9780262693134
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How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £19.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593297063Author Vaclav SmilFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint -
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going by Vaclav Smil 9780593297087
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593297087Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green by Henry Sanderson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.01'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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'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... -
The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.68In 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... -
Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now by John Doerr 9780241537770
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43#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... -
Braver New World: The Countries Daring to Do Things Others Won’t by John Kampfner 9781805462514
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.30'A ray of sunshine' Start the Week, Radio 4'Read this book as an antidote to fatalism and gloom' Robert Peston'Closely reported, surprising and, above all, hopeful' Jonathan FreedlandAt a time when... -
Braver New World: The Countries Daring to Do Things Others Won’t by John Kampfner 9781805462507
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97'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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Every 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... -
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Global Energy Shifts: Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age by Bruce Podobnik 9781592132935 [USED COPY]
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £6.50In 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... -
Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present by Daniel R. Headrick 9780691154329
Booksplease Price: £35.52For 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...