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Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $28.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262536165Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.88With 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 In World History by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $83.19This book offers a comprehensive look at the role of energy in world history, ranging from human muscle-power in foraging societies and animal-power in traditional farming to preindustrial hydraulic... -
Oil: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil 9781786072863
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.37Oil 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. Humanity's dependence upon oil... -
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539685Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 664Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Speed: How it Explains the World by Vaclav Smil 9781405977494
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $20.32Prepare 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... -
Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties by Vaclav Smil
Booksplease Price: $66.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262693240Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil 9780241992142
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'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: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063324107Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
China's Past, China's Future Vaclav Smil 9780415314992
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.21China 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,... -
Speed: How it Explains the World by Vaclav Smil 9780241754542
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.94Prepare 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 no... -
Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century by Vaclav Smil
Booksplease Price: $72.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262692717Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization by Vaclav Smil 9780262692359
Booksplease Price: $71.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262692359Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects by Vaclav Smil 9780313381775
Booksplease Price: $119.05This 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... -
Biomass Energies: Resources, Links, Constraints by Vaclav Smil 9781461336938
RRP: $233.98Booksplease Price: $219.22tions is not possible without first putting the problem into a wider con text. Consequently, before proceeding with detailed critical topical cov erage of individual biomass energy sources, uses, and... -
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide by Vaclav Smil 9780241999509
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' Bill Gates'A fascinating deep dive...a wonderful fact-based tour of our food system, past and present. It opens up plenty of interesting... -
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $51.79What 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... -
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide Vaclav Smil 9780241645390
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $32.99'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' BILL GATESIn this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internationally bestselling author Vaclav Smil investigates many of the... -
The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change by Vaclav Smil 9780262692984
Booksplease Price: $89.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262692984Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $161.85Booksplease Price: $109.18This 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... -
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide by Vaclav Smil 9780241645406
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $27.48'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' BILL GATESIn this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internationally bestselling author Vaclav Smil investigates many of the... -
How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food by Vaclav Smil 9780593834510
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $35.63Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Global Ecology: Environmental Change and Social Flexibility Vaclav Smil 9780415098861
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $104.91The magnitude and rapidity of global environmental change threatens the perpetuation of life on Earth. Many aspects of this crisis are familiar to us - the destruction of tropical rainforests, the... -
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure Vaclav Smil 9780262551014
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.29From 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... -
Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $56.55Booksplease Price: $46.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529730Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made by Vaclav Smil 9780197696750
RRP: $30.21Booksplease Price: $28.10From 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... -
Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years by Vaclav Smil 9780262518222
RRP: $44.85Booksplease Price: $31.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262518222Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World by Vaclav Smil 9780128042335
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $67.65Although 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 in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems by Vaclav Smil 9780262693561
Booksplease Price: $123.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262693561Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 494Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Energy Transitions: Global and National Perspectives, 2nd Edition by Vaclav Smil 9781440853241
Booksplease Price: $119.63This book provides a detailed, global examination of energy transitions, supplying a long-term historical perspective, an up-to-date assessment of recent and near-term advances in energy production... -
Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature by Vaclav Smil
Booksplease Price: $61.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528276Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Carbon-Nitrogen-Sulfur: Human Interference in Grand Biospheric Cycles by Vaclav Smil 9781468488418
Booksplease Price: $215.77ica, I considered myself an old hand: when I started to study the environment of the North Bohemian region in 1963, the ecosystemic changes and health effects result ing from extremely high... -
Natural Gas: Fuel for the 21st Century Vaclav Smil (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada) 9781119012863
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $52.47Natural 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... -
Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production by Vaclav Smil
Booksplease Price: $66.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262693134Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Materials and Dematerialization: Making the Modern World Vaclav Smil (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada) 9781394181209
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $51.97MATERIALS AND DEMATERIALIZATION World-renowned scientist Vaclav Smil examines a critical topic in the research and policy domain of sustainable resource use Over the course of time, the modern world... -
Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization Vaclav Smil (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada) 9781119942535
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $55.79How 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... -
Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact by Vaclav Smil 9780195168747
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $85.43The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of... -
Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines by Vaclav Smil 9780262518765
Booksplease Price: $54.91The 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... -
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50* 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...