Vaclav Smil
How the World Really Works
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Energy and Civilization
- A History
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization and offers listeners a magisterial overview of humanity's energy eras....
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Well worth reading and arguing over
- By M. Yakiwchuk on 2023-04-10
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Energy and Civilization
- A History
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-08
- Language: English
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Made in the USA
- The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a pure service economy....
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Interesting but not enlightening
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-01-15
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Made in the USA
- The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2022-05-10
- Language: English
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....
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How the World Really Works [For Oligarchs]
- By CoreDev on 2024-04-14
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2022-05-10
- Language: English
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Grand Transitions
- How the Modern World Was Made
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
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What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization - in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics - that have transformed the way we live....
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Grand Transitions
- How the Modern World Was Made
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2021-10-19
- Language: English
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Numbers Don't Lie
- 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Ben Prendergast
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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An essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world - exploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technology, transportation, and food production....
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It Helps To Understand Numbers
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Numbers Don't Lie
- 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
- Narrated by: Ben Prendergast
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2021-05-04
- Language: English
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Size
- How It Explains the World
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Size explains the regularities—and peculiarities—of the key processes shaping life (from microbes to whales), the Earth (from asteroids to volcanic eruptions), technical advances (from architecture to transportation), and societies and economies (from cities to wages)....
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Size
- How It Explains the World
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-16
- Language: English
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2023-07-11
- Language: English
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Energy
- An Audio Guide
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Dave Ferguson
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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In this user-friendly and informative audiobook, prolific author and academic Vaclav Smil provides an introduction to this far-reaching term....
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A must read, if you wish to understand the world.
- By Anonymous User on 2021-02-11
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Energy
- An Audio Guide
- Narrated by: Dave Ferguson
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2012-05-09
- Language: English
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Power Density
- A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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In this book, Vaclav Smil argues that power density is a key determinant of the nature and dynamics of energy systems....
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Power Density
- A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2022-06-07
- Language: English
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How to Feed the World
- The History and Future of Food
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 10 hrs
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Data-based and rigorously researched, How to Feed the World is an indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food—and a scientist's exploration of how we can successfully feed a growing population without killing the planet.
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How to Feed the World
- The History and Future of Food
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 2025-03-04
- Language: English
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Growth
- From Microorganisms to Megacities
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
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In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations....
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Very comprehensive
- By Anonymous User on 2023-11-03
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Growth
- From Microorganisms to Megacities
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2020-03-31
- Language: English
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Cómo funciona el mundo [How the World Really Works]
- Una guía científica de nuestro pasado, presente y futuro [A Scientific Guide to Our Past, Present and Future]
- Written by: Vaclav Smil, Francesc Pedrosa Martín - translator
- Narrated by: Carlos Canales
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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Un sincero y revelador análisis de las posibilidades energéticas de nuestro futuro.
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Cómo funciona el mundo [How the World Really Works]
- Una guía científica de nuestro pasado, presente y futuro [A Scientific Guide to Our Past, Present and Future]
- Narrated by: Carlos Canales
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-28
- Language: Spanish
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Energía y civilización [Energy and Civilization]
- Written by: Vaclav Smil, Alvaro Palau Arvizu
- Narrated by: Antonio Raluy
- Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
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En esta monumental historia, Vaclav Smil ofrece una impresionante panorámica de cómo la energía ha impulsado el progreso cultural y económico de las sociedades humanas durante los últimos diez mil años....
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Energía y civilización [Energy and Civilization]
- Narrated by: Antonio Raluy
- Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2022-12-20
- Language: Spanish
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El tamaño de las cosas [Size: How It Explains the World]
- Written by: Vaclav Smil, Francesc Pedrosa Martín - translator
- Narrated by: Gustavo Dardés
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Este libro sobre lo grande, lo pequeño y la relación entre ambos nos entrega una innovadora respuesta a las grandes preguntas sobre la existencia humana. El tamaño no es solo una propiedad más de lo que nos rodea, sino que puede cambiar nuestra forma de verlo absolutamente todo.
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El tamaño de las cosas [Size: How It Explains the World]
- Narrated by: Gustavo Dardés
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-13
- Language: Spanish
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