Overview :A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil... Read More
Overview :A realistic yet encouraging look at how society can change in ways that will allow us to feed an expanding global population.This book addre... Read More
Overview :A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at global changes that may occur over the next fifty years--whether sudden and cataclysmic world-chan... Read More
Overview :With his famous equation, E=mc2, Einstein showed us that all matter can be described as energy. It is everywhere; it is everything. In this ... Read More
Overview :There are many misconceptions about the future of global energy often presented as fact by the media, politicians, business leaders, activis... Read More
Overview :The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the ... Read More
Overview :Is bigger always better? Can something keep growing indefinitely, or be too big to fail? In Size, Vaclav Smil--New York Times bestselling au... Read More
Overview :The first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of power densities of renewable energy flows, fossi... Read More
Overview :From one of Bill Gate's favorite authors, a systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectorie... Read More
Overview :Tour the history of human invention--and its attendant breakthroughs and busts--in this history book from the New York Times-bestselling aut... Read More
Overview :A comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy in nature and society, from solar radiation and... Read More
Overview :How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand... Read More
Overview :Energy transitions are fundamental processes behind the evolution of human societies: they both drive and are driven by technical, economic,... Read More