Name: Size: How it Explains the World
SKU: 54943161
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Author: Smil, Vaclav
ISBN: 9780063324091

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Physical Book

Author

Vaclav Smil

Publisher

William Morrow and Company

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780063324091

Synopsis "Size: How it Explains the World "

Is bigger always better? Can something keep growing indefinitely, or be too big to fail? In Size, Vaclav Smil--New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works--illuminates this goliath subject."No one writes about the great issues of our time with more rigor or erudition than Vaclav Smil." -- Elizabeth KolbertTo answer the most important questions of our age, we must understand size. Neither bacteria nor empires are immune to its laws. Measuring it is challenging, especially where complex systems like economies are concerned, yet mastering it offers rich rewards: the rise of the West, for example, was a direct result of ever more accurate and standardized measurements.Using the interdisciplinary approach that has won him a wide readership, Smil draws upon history, earth science, psychology, art, and more to offer fresh insight into some of our biggest challenges, including income inequality, the spread of infectious disease, and the uneven impacts of climate change. 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). We also learn the rules governing beauty, why a biosphere needs diversity, why bigger animals need proportionately less food, and why people in hotter climates have longer legs.The latest masterwork of "an ambitious and astonishing polymath who swings for fences" (Wired) Size is a mind-bending journey that turns the modern world on its head.

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