Growth
From Microorganisms to Megacities
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Growth
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Verteld door:
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Eric Jason Martin
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Van:
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Vaclav Smil
Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.
Smil takes listeners from bacterial invasions through animal metabolisms to megacities and the global economy. He begins with organisms whose mature sizes range from microscopic to enormous, looking at disease-causing microbes, the cultivation of staple crops, and human growth from infancy to adulthood. He examines the growth of energy conversions and man-made objects that enable economic activities - developments that have been essential to civilization. Finally, he looks at growth in complex systems, beginning with the growth of human populations and proceeding to the growth of cities.
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An important read for our times
Er is een fout opgetreden. Probeer het over een paar minuten opnieuw.
Additional problem in the audio-version: No diagrams.
So better go for the printed version and use "Growth" purely as a reference-book.
My compliments to the speaker!
After listening to this audio-book ...
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I can't understand how anybody would dare to publish this as an audio book without the obviously missing additional reference material.
Extremely hard without complementary images
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