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020			_a9780262042833 (hardcover : alk. paper) : _c$39.95
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100	1		_aSmil, Vaclav, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aGrowth : _bFrom Microorganisms to Megacities / _cVaclav Smil.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe MIT Press, _c[2019]
300			_axxv, 634 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
365			_aUSD _b$39.95 _c$ _d1 USD = 75.00 INR
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 521-620) and index.
520			_aA 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. taken from Publisher's site.
650		0	_aCivilization, Modern _y21st century.
650		0	_aTechnology and civilization.
650		0	_aGrowth.
650		0	_aHuman ecology.
650		0	_aPopulation.
650		0	_aEnergy development.
650		0	_aEconomic development.
650		0	_aCities and towns _xGrowth.
650		0	_aUrban ecology (Sociology)
856			_3Publisher's Description _uhttps://mitpress.mit.edu/books/growth
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