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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Smil, Vaclav
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| Publisher: |
Oxford University Press
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| Date: |
03/01/2021
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| Binding: |
Hardcover
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| Condition: |
NEW
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What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization--in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics--which have transformed the way we live. Now a fifth transition is underway: the environmental changes that will determine the success or eventual failure of the preceding transitions that have made the world we inhabit today.
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