(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262536165
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 13th November 2018
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fueldriven civilization.
(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9781786071330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2017
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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This authoritative guide, written by international expert Vaclav Smil, has been fully revised to reveal how every aspect of our existence is governed by one of the most important concepts in our universe.
(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780241989678
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780241645406
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262551014
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780241989692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780241992142
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 9th November 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262692359
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2000
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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This book presents a survey of all the forms of energy that shape our world, from the sun to the human body, from bread to microchips.
(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262693240
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2005
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262693561
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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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.
(Hardback, 2nd edition)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9781440853241
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780313381775
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262693134
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2004
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Dr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer.Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Laureate and IFDC Board Member
(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262692717
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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This book addresses the question of how we can best feed the ten billion or so people who will likely inhabit the Earth by the middle of the twenty-first century. He asks whether human ingenuity can produce enough food to support healthy and vigorous lives for all these people without damaging the integrity of the biosphere.
(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262518765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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The story of how diesel engines and gas turbines, used to power cargo ships and jet airplanes, made today's globally integrated economy possible.
(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262692984
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A comprehensive overview of Earth's biosphere, written with scientific rigor and essay-like flair.
(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780241999509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780241754542
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262518222
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at global changes that may occur over the next fifty yearswhether sudden and cataclysmic world-changing events or gradually unfolding trends.
(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262539685
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2020
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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The author offers a systematic investigation of growth in nature and society from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.
(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262528276
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production.
(Hardback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780241645390
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262048057
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 9th February 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262528351
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An argument that America's economy needs a strong and innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates.
