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Energy: A Beginner's Guide

Energy: A Beginner's Guide

Vaclav Smil

In this engaging book, prolific author and academic Vaclav Smil provides an introduction to the far-reaching term and gives the reader a greater understanding of energy's place in both past and present society.
Why America Is Not a New Rome

Why America Is Not a New Rome

Vaclav Smil

In Why America Is Not a New Rome, Vaclav Smil looks at these comparisons in detail, going deeper than the facile analogy-making of talk shows and glossy magazine articles.
Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century

Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century

Vaclav Smil

This book addresses the question of how we can best feed the ten billion or so people who will likely inhabit the Earth by the middle of the twenty-first century.
China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of ...

China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of ...

Vaclav Smil

This book is not a systematic litany of what went wrong and how much - but rather an inquiry into the fundamental factors, needs, prospects, and limits of modern Chinese society, all seen through the critical environmental constraints and ...
Energy: A Beginner's Guide

Energy: A Beginner's Guide

Vaclav Smil

Shedding light on the science behind global warming and efforts to prevent it, and how our daily decisions affect energy consumption, this book highlights the importance of energy in both past and present societies.
Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties

Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties

Vaclav Smil

An objective, comprehensive treatment of the world's energy situation assesses the major trends in energy consumption across the globe while examining the potential of wind, solar, hydroenergy, and biomass energy. (Technology)
Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects

Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects

Vaclav Smil

This bold and controversial argument shows why energy transitions are inherently complex and prolonged affairs, and how ignoring this fact raises unrealistic expectations that the United States and other global economies can be weaned ...
Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts

Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts

Vaclav Smil

This book points out that the gains in the quality of Japans diet have exacted a price in terms of land use changes, water requirements, & marine resource depletion; & because Japan imports so much food, this price is paid globally as well ...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

THE LEEEND [IF '. retold by Blake A. Ho ' / ' - illustrated by Tod Smil /1' 'E' ' coloured by Dave Gutierrez ' e:-'1' N LIBRARIAN REVIEWER Katharine Kan Graphic novel reviewer and Library Consultant 4 . ;; READING CONSULTANT Elizabeth ...
Kærlighed for fanden!

Kærlighed for fanden!

Katie Cotugno

Før: Reena Montero har været forelsket i Sawyer Legrande, lige så længe hun kan huske – hans grønne øjne, det sandfarvede hår, det skæve, charmerende, selvsikre smil.
Witch Hammer

Witch Hammer

Václav Kaplický

The very next day, the constables arrested the papermaker's widow, Mistress Weillemann; and Dorothea Hutter, the wife of the former judge who had disappeared to an unknown place; and Christiane Reinhold. Then it was the turn of the ...
Kdo s koho

Kdo s koho

Václav Kaplický

Historický román z doby vlády Jagellovců - krále Vladislava a jeho syna Ludvíka - se odvíjí v jižních Čechách, místě neustálých bojů mezi měšťany a rytíři.
Savage Coast

Savage Coast

Muriel Rukeyser

“Monika Zgustova's concerns areclosetomy own:the fate of the individualin the hands of totalitarianism. She is an outstanding writer, whose fiction invokes thepolitics and cultureof people throughout history.” —Vaclav Havel “Three centuries, ...
Prague

Prague

John Miller

This wide-ranging anthology collects unexpected pieces, such as Bruce Chatwin on dwarf and porcelain collecting and Janet Malcolm on a surreal night in modern Prague, as well as the work of Vaclav Havel and Josef Skvorecky, writing about ...
Život alchymistův

Život alchymistův

Václav Kaplický

Historický román, jehož děj se odvíjí na dvoře Rudolfa II., ztvárňuje podivuhodné osudy anglického renesančního dobrodruha, dvorního alchymisty Eduarda Kelleye, jehož cesta k bohatství a slávě končí tragickým pádem.
O věrnosti a zradě: přiběhy dávné a ještě dávnější

O věrnosti a zradě: přiběhy dávné a ještě dávnější

Václav Kaplický

Patnáct drobných historických povídek vypráví, vedle několika příběhů o popravě posledního hejtmana táborského, o útěku mladého Viléma Zajíce z Házemburka z řad křižáckých žoldnéřů, o králi Václavovi IV. a ...
The East German Church and the End of Communism

The East German Church and the End of Communism

John P. Burgess

Church and Politics in a Secular World: The Theology of Wolf Krötke 1. See, for example, Vaclav Havel, “Help the Soviet Union on Its Road to Democracy" Vital Speeches of the Day (March 15, 1990): 330. 2. For general statements of the ...
The Movie Guide

The Movie Guide

James Monaco

FIREMAN'S BALL, THE (HORI MA PANENKO) 1967 73m c Comedy Barrandov ( Czechoslovakia) ••*>/5 Vaclav Stockel (Fire Brigade Commander), Josef Svet ( Old Man), Josef Kolb (Josef), Jan Vostrcil (Committee Chairman), Frantisek ...
Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets

Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets

Julian Smart

... Tom Ryan, Dino Scaringella, Jobst Schmalenbach, Dimitri Schoolwerth, Arthur Seaton, Paul Shirley, Wlodzimierz Skiba, John Skiff, Vaclav Slavik, Brian Smith, Neil Smith, Stein Somers, Petr Smilauer, Kari Systä, George Tasker, Austin xxxiii  ...

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