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  • ENERGY IN CHINA'S MODERNIZATION
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    ENERGY IN CHINA'S MODERNIZATION
    VACLAV SMIL
    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 book includes an introduction to the genres of the folktale and the specifics of Slovak tales. ...

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  • ENERGY IN WORLD HISTORY
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    ENERGY IN WORLD HISTORY
    VACLAV SMIL
    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 society. Our appreciation of the significance of these processes is essential to a fuller understanding of world history. Vaclav Smil offers a comprehensive look at the role ...

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  • CHINA'S ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE LIMITS OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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    CHINA'S ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE LIMITS OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    VACLAV SMIL
    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, updates and expands on the basic arguments and perceptions of "The Bad Earth". This book is not a systematic litany of what went wrong and how much - but rather an inquiry into the fundamental factor...

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  • THE BAD EARTH
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    THE BAD EARTH
    VACLAV SMIL
    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 problems include water shortages, the pollution of water, high levels of carcinogens in the air, accelerating erosion, and industrial pollution. Originally published in 1984, Vaclav Smil documents and ...

    $1,160.00

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  • MAKING THE MODERN WORLD
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    MAKING THE MODERN WORLD
    VACLAV SMIL
    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 questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. Now ...

    $527.00

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  • MAKING THE MODERN WORLD
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    MAKING THE MODERN WORLD
    VACLAV SMIL
    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 questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. Now ...

    $527.00

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  • CHINA'S PAST, CHINA'S FUTURE
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    CHINA'S PAST, CHINA'S FUTURE
    VACLAV SMIL
    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 lifetime of study, and provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces. The author examines China's energy resources, their uses, impacts and prospects, from the 1970s ...

    $1,420.00

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  • GLOBAL ECOLOGY
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    GLOBAL ECOLOGY
    VACLAV SMIL
    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 rainforests, the hole in the Antarctic ozone, desertification, soil erosion - yet we avoid the underlying challenge of a rapidly deteriorating ecological system and the breadth and complexity of respo...

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  • STILL THE IRON AGE: IRON AND STEEL IN THE MODERN WORLD
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    STILL THE IRON AGE: IRON AND STEEL IN THE MODERN WORLD
    SMIL, VACLAV
    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 without microchips, etc., but, by contrast, could not exist without steel. Because of the importance of this material to comtemporary civilization, a comprehensive resource is needed for metallurgists,...

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  • INVENCIÓN E INNOVACIÓN
    INVENCIÓN E INNOVACIÓN
    SMIL, VACLAV
    La historia de los inventos e innovaciones que han moldeado nuestra civilización, desde las herramientas de piedra hasta la IA.Vaclav Smil, uno de los pensadores más influyentes de nuestro tiempo, ofrece en este libro una narración rigurosa y sorprendentemente amena de la invención humana. Con su estilo característico, Smil explora la sutil diferencia entre invención e innovaci...
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    $440.00