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Size: How It Explains the World Audiobook by Vaclav Smil
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ID: 590870
Title: Size: How It Explains the World
Author: Vaclav Smil
Narrator: Stephen Perring
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:42:57
Language: English
Release date: 05-04-23
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Science & Technology, Mathematics, General, Technology & Engineering
Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin.
100 words: The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.
Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology, Smil busts myths around proportions - from bodies to paintings and the so-called golden ratio - tells us what Jonathan Swift got wrong in Gulliver's Travels - the giant Brobdingnagian's legs would buckle under their enormous weight - and dives headfirst into the most contentious issue in ergonomics: the size of aeroplane seats.
It is no exaggeration to say this fascinating and wide-ranging tour de force will change the way you look at absolutely everything.
10 words: Size, an omnipresent scalar, is the measure of all things.
1 word: Size.
© Vaclav Smil 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023
Contact: [email protected]
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ID: 590870
Title: Size: How It Explains the World
Author: Vaclav Smil
Narrator: Stephen Perring
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:42:57
Language: English
Release date: 05-04-23
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Science & Technology, Mathematics, General, Technology & Engineering
Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin.
100 words: The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.
Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology, Smil busts myths around proportions - from bodies to paintings and the so-called golden ratio - tells us what Jonathan Swift got wrong in Gulliver's Travels - the giant Brobdingnagian's legs would buckle under their enormous weight - and dives headfirst into the most contentious issue in ergonomics: the size of aeroplane seats.
It is no exaggeration to say this fascinating and wide-ranging tour de force will change the way you look at absolutely everything.
10 words: Size, an omnipresent scalar, is the measure of all things.
1 word: Size.
© Vaclav Smil 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023
Contact: [email protected]