Size: The Measure of All Things

Vaclav Smil

How It Explains the World

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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.

1 word: Size.

Review

An endlessly entertaining career through fascinating territory -- Simon Ings ― Daily Telegraph

In a world of specialized intellectuals, Smil is an ambitious and astonishing polymath who swings for fences . . . They're among the most data-heavy books you'll find, with a remarkable way of framing basic facts ― Wired

There is perhaps no other academic who paints pictures with numbers like Smil ― Guardian

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.

Podrobnosti

Autor	Vaclav Smil
Vydavatel	Viking
Jazyk	anglicky
Vazba	měkká
Počet stran	304
Formát	15,3 × 23,4 cm
EAN	9780241507001
Rok vydání	2023
Edice	Příroda a přírodní vědy Společnost a společenské vědy