Name: Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities (Mit Press) (in English)
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Author: Smil, Vaclav
ISBN: 9780262539685

portada Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities (Mit Press) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Vaclav Smil

Publisher

MIT Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

664

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.1 x 14.2 x 3.8 cm

Weight

0.84 kg.

ISBN13

9780262539685

Synopsis "Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities (Mit Press) (in English)"

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.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 readers 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. He considers the challenges of tracing the growth of empires and civilizations, explaining that we can chart the growth of organisms across individual and evolutionary time, but that the progress of societies and economies, not so linear, encompasses both decline and renewal. The trajectory of modern civilization, driven by competing imperatives of material growth and biospheric limits, Smil tells us, remains uncertain.

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Rafael GodoyThursday, May 27, 2021
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Es realmente completo y cumple lo que promete: enseñar una cantidad increíble de cosas que, en general, uno ni sabe que existen. Eso sí, todo este aprendizaje surge fruto de cierto esfuerzo, ya que hay muchos conceptos que hay que indagar aparte de la lectura, en la medida de que se va leyendo. En este sentido, el avance es un poco denso, pero no hay apuro! La cantidad de referencias a otros autores es increíble.
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Ignacio AnduezaThursday, February 24, 2022
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Excelente libro para aquellos lectores que gustan de datos científicos, curiosos y con fuentes académicas sólidas. Un análisis muy íntegro sobre algo tan omnipresente como el crecimiento de todo aquellos que nos rodea, y nosotros mismos.
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