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How the World Really Works - A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future by Vaclav Smil
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science
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: Current Affairs
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
Invention and Innovation - A Brief History of Hype and Failure by Vaclav Smil
$59.99 AUD
Category: Business and Economics
From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity--and its attendant breakthroughs and busts. The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author--a favorite of Bill ...Show more
Numbers Don't Lie - 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning' - Bill GatesIs flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? A ...Show more
Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
$35.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
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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