2022
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400
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This is his magnum opus. It distils his over 40 academic books into one peerlessly authoritative yet accessible masterpiece
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Author
Vaclav Smil
Author · 36 books
Vaclav Smil Ph.D. (Geography, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences of Pennsylvania State University, 1971; RNDr., Charles University, Prague, 1965), is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 2010 was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers.
