Advanced Search Request a Book

ORDERS

Readings Orders 0

DEMANDS

Readings Demands 0

Size: How It Explains the World
[Paperback - 2023]
vaclav smil
Out of Stock
Availability in 6-8 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: £16.99
Our Price: Rs.3495
Category: Science
Sub-category: Popular Science
Publisher: Viking Uk | ISBN: 9780241507001 | Pages: 304
Shipping Weight: | Dimensions:
Notify

Description

There is no author whose books I look forward to more Bill Gates 100 words: 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. 10 words: Size, an omnipresent scalar, is the measure of all things.

About the Author

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.

Also by the Same Author

View All
Making The Modern World: Materials And Dematerialization
[Paperback - 2014]
vaclav smil
Out of Stock
Availability in 6-8 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: $39.95
Our Price: Rs.7145
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need To Know About The World
[Paperback - 2021]
vaclav smil
Out of Stock
Availability in 6-8 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: £10.99
Our Price: Rs.1745
How The World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide To Our Past, Present And Future
[Paperback - 2022]
vaclav smil
Out of Stock
Availability in 6-8 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: £10.99
Our Price: Rs.2345
Energy And Civilization (a History)
[Paperback - 2018]
vaclav smil
On Demand
Availability in 6-8 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: $19.95
Our Price: Rs.6495
How The World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide To Our Past, Present And Future
[Paperback - 2022]
vaclav smil
On Demand
Availability in 6-8 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: £14.99
Our Price: Rs.2545

Bestsellers in Science

View All
A Brief History Of Time
[Paperback - 1989]
stephen hawking
In Stock
List Price: £8.99
Our Price: Rs.1995
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us And A Grander View Of Life
[Paperback - 2017]
ed yong
Out of Stock
Availability in 6-8 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: £12.99
Our Price: Rs.2245
Guns, Germs And Steel: A Short History Of Everybody For The Last 13,000 Years (Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize For Non Fiction 1998)
[Paperback - 2005]
jared diamond
Out of Stock
Availability in 6-8 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: £12.99
Our Price: Rs.3045
A Short History Of Nearly Everything: A Journey Through Space And Time
[Paperback - 2016]
bill bryson
In Stock
List Price: £10.99
Our Price: Rs.2745
The God Equation: The Quest For A Theory Of Everything
[Paperback - 2022]
michio kaku
Out of Stock
Availability in 6-8 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: £9.99
Our Price: Rs.2245
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials Of Physics Explained By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
[Paperback - 2016]
richard p. feynman
In Stock
List Price: $16.99
Our Price: Rs.3895
The God Delusion (10th Anniversary Edition)
[Paperback - 2016]
richard dawkins
In Stock
List Price: £10.99
Our Price: Rs.2575
The Biggest Ideas In The Universe: Space, Time And Motion (Book 1)
[Hardback - 2022]
sean carroll
In Stock
List Price: £16.99
Our Price: Rs.3395
The Order Of Time
[Paperback - 2019]
carlo rovelli
In Stock
List Price: £10.99
Our Price: Rs.2395
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge And The Teachings Of Plants
[Paperback - 2020]
robin wall kimmerer
In Stock
List Price: £10.99
Our Price: Rs.2545
The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
[Paperback - 2012]
thomas s. kuhn
Out of Stock
Availability in 6-8 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: $15
Our Price: Rs.4445
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures Of A Curious Character
[Paperback - 2022]
richard p. feynman
On Demand
Availability in 6-8 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: £10.99
Our Price: Rs.2545