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Vaclav Smil

Author of Energy and Civilization: A History (The MIT Press)

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Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of forty books, including Energy and Civilization, published by the MIT Press. In 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. — biography from Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities (The MIT Press)… (more)
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Works by Vaclav Smil
Energy and Civilization: A History (The MIT Press) 383 copies, 2 reviews
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where… 292 copies, 13 reviews
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World 216 copies, 10 reviews
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities (The MIT Press) 204 copies, 2 reviews
Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization 145 copies, 3 reviews
Energy: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides) 144 copies
Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years 128 copies, 2 reviews
Should We Eat Meat Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory 99 copies, 3 reviews
Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties 93 copies
Cycles of Life: Civilization and the Biosphere 87 copies
Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate 86 copies
Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing 85 copies
Oil: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides) 82 copies, 1 review
Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and… 79 copies
Why America Is Not a New Rome 66 copies, 2 reviews
Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems 66 copies
Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization 66 copies, 1 review
Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature 64 copies, 1 review
The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change 61 copies
Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of… 58 copies, 1 review
Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines… 57 copies
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made 52 copies
Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century 47 copies
Energy In World History (Essays in World History) 44 copies
Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their… 39 copies
Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses (MIT Press) 31 copies, 1 review
Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects 30 copies
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure 29 copies, 1 review
Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts (Food, Health, and the… 24 copies
China's Past, China's Future (Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian… 22 copies
China's Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National… 20 copies
Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World 19 copies
Global Ecology: Environmental Change and Social Flexibility 14 copies
Natural gas : fuel for the 21st century 12 copies
Size: How It Explains the World 11 copies, 1 review
The bad earth: Environmental degradation in China 9 copies
General Energetics: Energy in the Biosphere and Civilization 6 copies
Energy Transitions: Global and National Perspectives, 2nd Edition 6 copies
Biomass Energies: Resources, Links, Constraints (Modern perspectives in… 5 copies
Energy in the developing world : the real energy crisis 4 copies
Energy, Food, Environment: Realities, Myths, Opinions 4 copies
Energy Analysis And Agriculture: An Application To U.s. Corn Production… 3 copies
Energy in China's Modernization (Advances and Limitations) 3 copies
Carbon nitrogen sulfur : human interference in grand biospheric cycles 3 copies
Size: The Measure of All Things 2 copies
Energia i cywilizacja : tak tworzy się historia 1 copy
Energia e Civilização Uma história 1 copy
China's Energy: Achievements, Problems, and Prospects 1 copy
Detonator of the Population Explosion (Article) 1 copy
Energia Mitos e realidades 1 copy
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