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Energy in China's Modernization
A selection of 50 Slovak folk tales assembled from the collections of folklorist Pavol Dobsinsky. The translator seeks to preserve the poetic qualities of the originals, and the …
Grand Transitions
From 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 …
Energía y civilización. Una historia
La energía es la única moneda de cambio universal. Sin transformación de energía, no hay nada. La vida en la Tierra depende de la conversión de la energía solar en biomasa vegetal, …
Energy In World History
Every human activity entails the conversion of energy. Changes in the fundamental sources of energy, and in the use of energy sources, are a basic dimension of the evolution of …
Global Ecology
The 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 …
Bad Earth
As China strives to significantly increase its economic output, the nation faces an acute deterioration of the physical resources from which this prodigious growth springs. Major …
Creating the Twentieth Century
The 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 …
China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development
In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "e;The Bad Earth"e;, a disturbing book. This new volume, drawn on a much …
Cum functioneaza lumea cu adevarat
Bestseller New York Times„O noua capodopera a unuia dintre autorii mei prefera?i." – Bill GatesÎn ciuda abunden?ei de informa?ii la care avem acces în zilele noastre, cei mai mul?i …
Enriching the Earth
Dr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer.The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern …
Energy Transitions
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 …
Still the Iron Age
Although 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 …