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Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $31.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262536165Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint -
Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95With 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: $98.68Booksplease Price: $92.27This 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... -
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.87Apologies 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 9781405977494
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.68Prepare 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'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: $41.98Booksplease Price: $31.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063324107Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Speed: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil 9780593834541
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $27.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593834541Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $57.52What 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... -
The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change by Vaclav Smil 9780262692984
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Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties by Vaclav Smil 9780262693240
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Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences by Vaclav Smil
Booksplease Price: $191.46This 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: The History and Future of Food by Vaclav Smil 9780593834510
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $38.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593834510Author Vaclav SmilFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century by Vaclav Smil 9780262692717
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Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure Vaclav Smil 9780262551014
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.24From 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: $60.90Booksplease Price: $50.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529730Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made by Vaclav Smil 9780197696750
RRP: $32.53Booksplease Price: $31.14From 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: $48.30Booksplease Price: $34.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262518222Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World by Vaclav Smil 9780128042335
Booksplease Price: $90.22Although 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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Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature by Vaclav Smil 9780262528276
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Natural Gas: Fuel for the 21st Century Vaclav Smil (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada) 9781119012863
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $56.51Natural 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... -
Materials and Dematerialization: Making the Modern World Vaclav Smil (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada) 9781394181209
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $55.97MATERIALS 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: $62.90Booksplease Price: $60.08How 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... -
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $13.50* 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... -
Creating and Transforming the Twentieth Century, Revised and Expanded: Technical Innovations and Their Lasting Impact Vaclav Smil 9780197784648
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $58.57Creating 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... -
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: $63.00Booksplease Price: $41.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593297063Author Vaclav SmilFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Should We Eat Meat?: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory Vaclav Smil (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada) 9781118278727
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $60.08Meat 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: $39.90Booksplease Price: $25.75Apologies 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 9780861546190
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.25'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
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.42'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: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.34In 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 Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.83In 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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10#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 9781805462507
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $33.54'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... -
Braver New World: The Countries Daring to Do Things Others Won’t by John Kampfner 9781805462514
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.93'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... -
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them) Tom Chivers 9781474619974
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84Every 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... -
Global Energy Shifts: Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age by Bruce Podobnik
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87In 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...