Energy and Civilization: A History, Smil Vaclav

Автор: Smil Vaclav
Название: Energy and Civilization: A History
ISBN: 0262536161 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262536165
Издательство: MIT Press
Цена: 25900 T
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A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization.

"I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years.
--Bill Gates, Gates Notes, Best Books of the Year

Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows--ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity--for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization.

Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts--from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.

Автор: Sansone David, Milner Chris, Sinn Hans-Werner,
Название: Ancient Greek Civilization
ISBN: 0631232354 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780631232353
Издательство: Wiley
Цена: 73920.00 T
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Автор: Cline Eric H.
Название: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
ISBN: 0691168385 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691168388
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 14770.00 T
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Описание: "In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the `Sea Peoples` invaded Egypt. The pharaoh`s army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end ... The Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen? In this major new account of the causes of this `First Dark Ages,` Eric Cline tells the ... story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes"

Автор: Krejc?
Название: The Paths of Civilization
ISBN: 1403938210 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403938213
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 37260.00 T
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Описание: Socio-economic scenarios help the reader to explore the ways in which individual civilizations - through world views, styles of life and responses to the environment that each bear their own signature - struggle, merge, submerge in the flow of the currents of history.

Автор: Haarmann Harald
Название: Roots of Ancient Greek Civilization: The Influence of Old Europe
ISBN: 0786478276 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786478279
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 60990.00 T
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Описание: Contrary to a prevalent belief of the Western world that democracy, agriculture, theatre and the arts were the attainments of Classical Greek civilisation, these were actually a Bronze Age fusion of earlier European concepts and Hellenic ingenuity. This work considers both the multicultural wellspring from which these ideas flowed and their ready assimilation by the Greeks.

Автор: Sansone, David
Название: Ancient greek civilization
ISBN: 1405167327 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405167321
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 31670.00 T
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Описание: A narrative of Greek history and an analysis of the literature, art, and thought of the ancient Greeks. It tells the story of Greek civilization from the from the Minoan Period to the time of the Byzantine Empire. It surveys the culture and history the ancient Greeks.

Автор: Belbruno, Edward
Название: Capture Dynamics and Chaotic Motions in Celestial Mechanics: With Applications to the Construction of Low Energy Transfers
ISBN: 0691094802 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691094809
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 97150.00 T
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Описание: Describes a revolutionary approach to determining low energy routes for spacecraft and comets by exploiting regions in space where motion is very sensitive. This work also represents an introductory text to celestial mechanics, dynamical systems, and dynamical astronomy.