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The latest translations of my books include How the World Really Works in Portuguese and Romanian; How to Feed the World in [...]

An indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food—and a scientist’s exploration of how [...]

The latest translations of my books that have arrived since April 2024 include: How the World Really Works in [...]

Halfway Between Kyoto and 2050: Zero Carbon Is a Highly Unlikely Outcome is published by the Fraser Institute. [...]

Sometimes my readers send me photos of my books displayed in bookstores in London, Tokyo, New York or [...]

During its 100th year the World Energy Conference held in Rotterdam awarded me The Energy Systems Luminary Award [...]

The latest translations of my books include Grand Transitions in Hungarian; How the World Really Works in Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese and [...]

There is one writer whose books I’ve reviewed on Gates Notes more than anyone else: Vaclav Smil. I’ve [...]

By the end of 2023 my books have been translated into 35 languages. Here are some of the [...]

John Wiley published Materials and Dematerialization. The book considers the principal materials used throughout history, from wood and [...]

Posted on June 15, 2023 2023 by Vaclav Smil In early 2023 Liam Shaw, a computational biologist in the Department of Biology [...]

Posted on May 30, 2023 by Vaclav Smil Growth has been published in Finnish, Italian and Japanese (in two volumes) and Numbers [...]