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El Tamaño de Las Cosas / Size: How It Explains the World - Paperback

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by Vaclav Smil (Author)

La demostración de que el tamaño importa.

Pueden las medidas explicar el mundo? Para responder a esa colosal pregunta ha dedicado Vaclav Smil las más de trescientas páginas de El tamaño de las cosas. El científico canadiense despliega un ambicioso análisis del principio rector más fundamental de nuestro planeta: el tamaño, cuyas leyes, límites y peculiaridades son clave para entender la salud, la riqueza e incluso la felicidad. Medir la escala, las proporciones y las simetrías es todo un reto, en especial cuando se trata de sistemas tan complejos como las economías, pero comprenderlas ofrece ricas recompensas.

Con el enfoque interdisciplinar que caracteriza su prolífica obra divulgativa, Smil recurre a la historia, las ciencias de la Tierra, la psicología y el arte, entre otras áreas, para ofrecer una nueva visión de nuestros mayores retos, como la desigualdad, la propagación de enfermedades infecciosas y los estragos del cambio climático.

Este libro sobre lo grande, lo pequeño y la relación entre ambos nos entrega una innovadora respuesta a las grandes preguntas sobre la existencia humana. El tamaño no es solo una propiedad más de lo que nos rodea, sino que puede cambiar nuestra forma de verlo absolutamente todo.

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From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness

"No one writes about the great issues of our time with more rigor or erudition than Vaclav Smil." -- Elizabeth Kolbert

To answer the most important questions of our age, we must understand size. Neither bacteria nor empires are immune to its laws. Measuring it is challenging, especially where complex systems like economies are concerned, yet mastering it offers rich rewards: the rise of the West, for example, was a direct result of ever more accurate and standardized measurements.

Using the interdisciplinary approach that has won him a wide readership, Smil draws upon history, earth science, psychology, art, and more to offer fresh insight into some of our biggest challenges, including income inequality, the spread of infectious disease, and the uneven impacts of climate change. Size explains the regularities--and peculiarities--of the key processes shaping life (from microbes to whales), the Earth (from asteroids to volcanic eruptions), technical advances (from architecture to transportation), and societies and economies (from cities to wages). This book about the big and the small, and the relationship between them, answers the big and small questions of human existence:

- What makes a human society too big? What about a human being?
- Which alternative energy sources have the best chance of scaling and reducing our dependence on fossil fuels?
- Why do tall people make more money?
- What makes a face beautiful? How about a cathedral?
- How can changing the size of your plates help you lose weight?

The latest masterwork of "an ambitious and astonishing polymath who swings for fences" (Wired) Size is a mind-bending journey that turns the modern world on its head.

Author Biography

Vaclav Smil es profesor emérito de la Universidad de Manitoba, en Winnipeg, Canadá. Es autor de una cuarentena de libros que abordan desde la renovación energética hasta la producción de alimentos, pasando por las innovaciones tecnológicas, los cambios medioambientales y de población, las políticas públicas o las evaluaciones de riesgo. Es miembro de la Royal Society de Canadá y miembro de la Orden de Canadá.

Number of Pages: 352
Dimensions: 1.1 x 9 x 5.8 IN
Publication Date: November 12, 2024
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