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How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where
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How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going Hardcover - 2022

by Smil, Vaclav

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New York: Viking. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2022. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 326 pp. .
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  • Title How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
  • Author Smil, Vaclav
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Viking, New York
  • Date 2022
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BOOKS111393I
  • ISBN 9780593297063 / 0593297067
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.36 x 6.32 x 1.13 in (23.77 x 16.05 x 2.87 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Technology and civilization, Technological innovations - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2022006318
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.483

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/01/2022, Page 11
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2022, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 04/01/2022, Page 104
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/11/2022, Page 0

About the author

Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of over forty books on topics including energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy. No other living scientist has had more books (on a wide variety of topics) reviewed in Nature. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers.

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