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  • How the World Really Works
    How the World Really Works
    Smil, Vaclav
    An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist’s investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish.We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our...

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  • Energy and Civilization
    Energy and Civilization
    Smil, Vaclav
    Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows—ranging from fossil fuels ...

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  • Size
    Size
    Smil, Vaclav
    To answer the most important questions of our age, we must understand size. Neither bacteria nor empires are immune to its laws. Measuring it is challenging, especially where complex systems like economies are concerned, yet mastering it offers rich rewards: the rise of the West, for example, was a direct result of ever more accurate and standardized measurements.Using the inte...

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  • Invention and Innovation
    Invention and Innovation
    Smil, Vaclav
    The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author (a favorite of Bill Gates) pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the over...

    $455.00 MXN

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  • Numbers don't lie
    Numbers don't lie
    Smil, Vaclav
    From the author of How the World Really Works, an essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world–exploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technology, transportation, and food production.Vaclav Smil’s mission is to make facts matter. An environmental scientist, policy analyst, and a hugely prolific author, he is Bill Ga...

    $329.00 MXN

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  • Grand Transitions
    Grand Transitions
    Smil, Vaclav
    What 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 transformed the way we live. Societies that have undergone all four transitions emerge into an era of radically different population dynamics, food surpluses (and waste), abundant ener...

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  • Energía y civilización. Una historia
    Energía y civilización. Una historia
    Smil, Vaclav

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  • ¿Deberíamos comer carne?
    ¿Deberíamos comer carne?
    Smil, Václav
    ¿Debemos comer carne? Es un libro que aborda tanto los problemas como los beneficios de comer carne. Brinda una perspectiva antropológica e histórica al analizar el consumo de carne desde los primeros periodos de la historia del hombre y cómo su caza y su ingesta ayudó al desarrollo de las primeras sociedades; aporta, asimismo, una perspectiva sanitaria al mencionar las condici...

    $299.00 MXN

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  • Growth
    Growth
    Smil, Vaclav
    Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child’s growth chart, the spread o...

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