Size - How it Explains the World

Informationen zum Autor Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of over forty books on topics including energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy. No other living scientist has had more books (on a wide variety of topics) reviewed in Nature . A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. Klappentext 'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' Bill Gates 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 busts myths around proportions - from bodies to paintings and the so-called golden ratio - tells us what Jonathan Swift got wrong in Gulliver's Travels - the giant Brobdingnagian's legs would buckle under their enormous weight - and dives headfirst into the most contentious issue in ergonomics: the size of aeroplane seats. It is no exaggeration to say this fascinating and wide-ranging tour de force will change the way you look at absolutely everything. Zusammenfassung 'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' Bill Gates 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 busts myths around proportions - from bodies to paintings and the so-called golden ratio - tells us what Jonathan Swift got wrong in Gulliver's Travels - the giant Brobdingnagian's legs would buckle under their enormous weight - and dives headfirst into the most contentious issue in ergonomics: the size of aeroplane seats. It is no exaggeration to say this fascinating and wide-ranging tour de force will change the way you look at absolutely everything. ...

Product details

• Authors: Vaclav Smil, Smil Vaclav
• Publisher: Viking
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.05.2023
• EAN: 9780241507001
• ISBN: 978-0-241-50700-1
• No. of pages: 292
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / Weights & Measures, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Measurement, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, MATHEMATICS / Measurement, General & world history, Biology, life sciences, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, History: specific events and topics, General and world history, Human biology, Materials science, Scientific standards, measurement etc, Probability & statistics, Animal Physiology, Mathematical modelling, Probability and statistics, Growth Daniel Susskind