Materials and Dematerialization
World-renowned scientist Vaclav Smil examines a critical topic in the research and policy domain of sustainable resource use Over the course of time, the modern...
Author: Vaclav Smil
June 26, 2023 John Wiley published Materials and Dematerialization
John Wiley published Materials and Dematerialization Materials and Dematerialization considers the principal materials used throughout history, from wood and st...
June 15, 2023 Reanalysis of all growth curves from Growth
Posted on June 15, 2023 2023 by Vaclav Smil In early 2023 Liam Shaw, a computational biologist in the Department of Biology at Oxford Univer...
Size: How it Explains the World
‘There is no author whose books I look forward to more’ Bill Gates The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening explo...
Size: How it Explains the World
From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of...
May 30, 2023 New translations
Posted on May 30, 2023 by Vaclav Smil Growth has been published in Finnish, Italian and Japanese (in two volumes) and Numbers Don’t Lie came...
May 16, 2023 SIZE published in the US (William Morrow) and the UK (Penguin).
Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology, Smil busts myths around proportions – from bodies to paintings and the so-cal...
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts. The world is never fi...
February 14, 2023 MIT Press published Invention and Innovation
MIT Press published Invention and Innovation on February 14. From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and...
January 25, 2023 New translations
By the end of 2022 Viking signed agreements to translate How the World Really Works into nearly 30 languages: here are the covers of German, Italian, Portuguese...