Growth
From Microorganisms to Megacities
$37.75
- Paperback
664 pages
- Release Date
16 February 2021
Summary
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 of cancerous cells.
In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262539685 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262539683 |
| Author: | Vaclav Smil |
| Publisher: | MIT Press |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 664 |
| Release Date: | 16 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 820g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“Vaclav Smil does for the history of energy what Thomas Piketty did for the history of inequality. And his findings are just as uncomfortable.” – Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Utopia for Realists (2017) and Humankind (2020)
About The Author
Vaclav Smil
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. In 2013 Bill Gates wrote that “there is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.”
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