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This book offers a comprehensive look at the role of energy in world history, ranging from human muscle-power in foraging societies and animal-powe...

Every human activity entails the conversion of energy. Changes in the fundamental sources of energy, and in the use of energy sources, are a basic ...

There is no author whose books I look forward to more BILL GATESIn this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internationally bestse...

There is no author whose books I look forward to more BILL GATESIn this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internationally bestse...

What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four grand transitions of civilization--in populations, ag...

MATERIALS AND DEMATERIALIZATION World-renowned scientist Vaclav Smil examines a critical topic in the research and policy domain of sustainable res...

From one of the world's leading experts on the history of energy, a rigorous examination of the transitions that structure our modern world--and th...