Vaclav Smil Follow

By Publish Year By Title

Speed How It Explains the World

2025 • 3 editions

Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact

2025 • 3 editions

How to Feed the World

2025 • 1 editions

How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food

2024 • 4 editions

Invention and Innovation

2023 • 3 editions

Size: How It Explains the World

2023 • 3 editions

Size

2023 • 7 editions

Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure

2023 • 4 editions

Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses

2022 • 3 editions

Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing

2022 • 3 editions

How The World Really Works

2022 • 9 editions

Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made

2021 • 4 editions

Grand Transitions

2020 • 4 editions

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World

2020 • 7 editions

Growth

2019 • 4 editions

Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities (Mit Press)

2019 • 5 editions

Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization

2017 • 1 editions

Energy and Civilization: A History

2017 • 9 editions

Energy Transitions

2016 • 1 editions

Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World

2016 • 2 editions

Natural Gas: Fuel for the 21st Century

2015 • 3 editions

Power Density: A Key To Understanding Energy Sources And Uses

2015 • 5 editions

Making The Modern World

2013 • 10 editions

Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing (The MIT Press)

2013 • 6 editions

Should We Eat Meat?: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory

2013 • 5 editions

Energy-a-beginner-s-guide

2012 • 1 editions

Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature (The MIT Press)

2012 • 6 editions

Japan's Dietary Transition And Its Impacts

2012 • 5 editions

Energy

2012 • 2 editions

Prime Movers of Globalization the History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines

2010 • 1 editions

Energy Myths and Realities

2010 • 5 editions

Prime Movers Of Globalization

2010 • 5 editions

Energy Transitions: Global and National Perspectives, 2nd Edition

2010 • 4 editions

Biofuel Delusion

2009 • 3 editions

Oil

2008 • 5 editions

Global Catastrophes And Trends

2008 • 5 editions

Oil: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)

2008 • 3 editions

General Energetics

2007 • 2 editions

Energy in Nature and Society

2007 • 4 editions

Energy: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)

2006 • 3 editions

Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences

2006 • 6 editions

Creating the Twentieth Century Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact

2005 • 3 editions

Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact (Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact Book 1)

2004 • 4 editions

Why America Is Not a New Rome

2003 • 5 editions

China's Past, China's Future

2003 • 7 editions

Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties

2003 • 4 editions

Global Ecology Environmental Change and Social Flexibility

2003 • 2 editions

Earth's Biosphere Evolution, Dynamics, and Change

2002 • 5 editions

Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production (The MIT Press)

2000 • 5 editions

Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century

2000 • 4 editions

Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization

1998 • 4 editions

Cycles Of Life: Civilization And The Biosphere

1997 • 4 editions

Who will feed China?: concerns and prospects for the next generation

1996 • 1 editions

Energy In World History

1994 • 7 editions

China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development

1993 • 4 editions

Global Ecology: Environmental Change and Social Flexibility

1993 • 7 editions

China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development

1993 • 3 editions

General Energetics: Energy in the Biosphere and Civilization

1991 • 1 editions

Energy in China's Modernization

1988 • 5 editions

Energy, Food, Environment: Realities, Myths, Opinions

1987 • 2 editions

Carbon-Nitrogen-Sulfur: Human Interference in Grand Biospheric Cycles (Modern Perspectives in Energy)

1985 • 4 editions

Bad Earth

1984 • 11 editions

Energy Analysis And Agriculture: An Application To U.s. Corn Production (Westview Special Studies in Agriculture Science and Policy)

1982 • 1 editions

Energy in the Developing World: The Real Energy Crisis

1980 • 1 editions

China's Energy

1977 • 1 editions

Biomass Energies

1656 • 4 editions