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Natural Gas
Natural 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 …
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 "The Bad Earth", a disturbing book. This new volume, drawn on a much broader canvas, …
Making the Modern World
How 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 …
China's Past, China's Future
China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, is the result of a …
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 …
Biomass Energies
tions is not possible without first putting the problem into a wider con text. Consequently, before proceeding with detailed critical topical cov erage of individual biomass …
Cómo Funciona El Mundo: Una Guía Científica de Nuestro Pasado, Presente Y Futuro / How the World Really Works
Un sincero y revelador an lisis de las posibilidades energ ticas de nuestro futuro. «Si te preocupa el futuro y te enfurece que no se est haciendo suficiente al respecto, por …
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
"Vaclav Smil is my favorite author... Numbers Don't Lie takes everything that makes his writing great and boils it down into an easy-to-read format. I unabashedly recommend this …
Energy In World History
This 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 …