عنوان

Growth :

شابک

0262042835

شابک

9780262042833

عنوان اصلي

Growth :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

from microorganisms to megacities /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Vaclav Smil.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge, Massachusetts :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

The MIT Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2019.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xxv, 634 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

"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." --

موضوع مستند نشده

Cities and towns-- Growth.

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Civilization, Modern-- 21st century.

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Economic development.

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Energy development.

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Growth.

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Human ecology.

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Population.

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Technology and civilization.

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Urban ecology (Sociology)

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Cities and towns-- Growth.

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Civilization, Modern.

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Economic development.

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Energy development.

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Gesellschaft

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Großstadt

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Growth.

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Human ecology.

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Natur

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Population.

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Technik

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Technology and civilization.

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Urban ecology (Sociology)

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Wachstumsprozess

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Wirtschaft

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Smil, Vaclav

تاريخ عمليات

20200822104811.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y