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...
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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...
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...
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...
Bill Gates reviews How the World Really Works and makes his summer 2022 book recommendations
Bill Gates reviews How the World Really Works and makes his summer 2022 book recommendations. See: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/How-the-Worl...
American edition of How the World Really Works was published in New York on May 10, 2022
American edition of How the World Really Works was published in New York on May 10, 2022. Here are the links to the book’s reviews in New York Ti...
HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS was published in London by Viking on January 27, 2022.
What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four “grand transitions” of civilization – in populations, agriculture,...
Natural Gas in the New Energy World
Naturgy Energy Group S.A., a Spanish company engaged in generation, distribution and marketing of energy and services, released my report on natural gas in the ...