How the World Really Works: How Science Can Set Us Straight on Our Past, Present, and Future by Vaclav Smil

How the World Really Works: How Science Can Set Us Straight on Our Past, Present, and Future

Vaclav Smil

326 pages first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction science informative medium-paced
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In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable--the foolishness of allowing 70 per cent of the world's rubber gloves to be made in just one factory became glaringly obvious in 2020--and that o...

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