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Growth - From Microorganisms to Megacities by Vaclav Smil
$34.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental ...Show more
How the World Really Works - A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future by Vaclav Smil
$35.00 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Reading Level: near fine
Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperit ...Show more
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future by Vaclav Smil
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperi ...Show more
Size - How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness"No one writes about the great issues of ou ...Show more
Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
$35.00 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
A mind-expanding exploration size, the measure of all things, from the New York Times bestselling author The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth. Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology, Smil bust ...Show more
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