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Vaclav Smil's Size: Explaining the World Hanes Men's Work Socks, 6-Pack
From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, Vaclav Smil presents a wide-ranging examination of 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," says Elizabeth Kolbert.
To answer the most pressing questions of our age, we must understand the concept of size. Neither bacteria nor empires are immune to its laws. Measuring size can be challenging, particularly when dealing with complex systems like economies, yet mastering this understanding offers rich rewards: the rise of the West, for instance, was a direct result of ever more accurate and standardized measurements.
Using an interdisciplinary approach that has earned him a wide readership, Smil draws upon history, earth science, psychology, art, and more to provide 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).
This book about the big and the small, and the relationship between them, answers both the big and small questions of human existence. What makes a human society too big? What about a human being? Which alternative energy sources have the best chance of scaling and reducing our dependence on fossil fuels? Why do tall people make more money? What makes a face beautiful? How about a cathedral? How can changing the size of your plates help you lose weight?
Smil's latest masterwork, "Size," is a mind-bending journey that turns the modern world on its head. As an "ambitious and astonishing polymath who swings for fences" (Wired), Smil offers a fresh and insightful exploration of the governing principle that underpins our world, from the microscopic to the macroscopic, and the profound implications it holds for our understanding of health, wealth, and the human condition.
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