Size
How It Explains the World
$50.42
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2024
Summary
From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary 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 our time with more rigor or erudition than Vaclav Smil.” – Elizabeth Kolbert
To answer the most important questions…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780063324107 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0063324105 |
| Author: | Vaclav Smil |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | Collins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 135mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“Informative and entertaining. … Perfect reading material for anyone who enjoys a mathematical analysis of the world around them.” - Physics World
“From viruses to blue whales, this ambitious book tries to explain why size does matter.” - Seattle Times
“No one writes about the great issues of our time with more rigor or erudition than Vaclav Smil.” - Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction
“One of the world’s most interesting thinkers investigates the large, the small, and everything in between. … [Smil] skillfully synthesizes a wealth of material to help explain the world and our place in it. … Fascinating… interesting and accessible. … Smil packs entire worlds into entertaining, colorful, pleasing packages.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Meditates on size and its relation to status, intelligence, wealth, and beauty. … Fascinates.” - Publishers Weekly
“Smil traverses the extremes and plenty in between. … [A] fascinating inquiry.” - Booklist
“This book is ambitious in scope but wonderfully granular in detail–and really will change the way you think about just about everything.” - i News
”[An] interrogation, indeed demolition, of our modish and magical approach to mathematics. … Wonderfully acerbic. … Size is an endlessly entertaining career through fascinating territory.” - Telegraph (UK)
Vaclav Smil
Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, as well as more than forty other books on topics including energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he has been named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers.
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