著者 瓦茨拉夫‧哈維爾(V孷clav Havel) 1936年生於捷克首都布拉格。六0年從事劇場活動，六八年「布拉格之春」後開始涉入政治活動，是「七七憲章運動」的主要推手，七九年時以顛覆... more

"Vaclav Smil is my favorite author... Numbers Don’t Lie takes everything that makes his writing great and boils it down...... more

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors... [How The Wor... more

Carlo Scarpa was a virtuoso of light, a master of detail, and a connoisseur of materials. Today he i... more

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

him...he always strengthens my thinking."
--Bill Gates, Gates Notes The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil...... more

electricity--for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has...... more

A Frequency Dictionary of British English provides information about the frequency and distribution ... more

A Frequency Dictionary of British English provides information about the frequency and distribution ... more

How might evidence of language use - writing and speech - be used as a way of studying language? Cor... more

In South India there is a society where priests and lay people claim supernatural powers. Where a so... more

developments. Through erudite storytelling, Vaclav Smil investigates the fascinating and complex interactions of these transitions...... more

This volume showcases original, agenda-setting studies in the field of learner corpus research of bo... more

Do you use language corpora in your research or study, but find that you struggle with statistics? T... more

Do you use language corpora in your research or study, but find that you struggle with statistics? T... more

Presents recent research on the use of real data and the criteria for their accuracy and reliability... more

One common feature of new emerging technologies is the fusion of the very small (nano) scale and the... more

Teaches readers to build their own Tangible Landscape system with free and open source software and ... more

This volume showcases original, agenda-setting studies in the field of learner corpus research of bo... more

Social media are increasingly revolutionising the ways in which political communication works, and t... more

Includes results of the Third International Afro-European Conference for Industrial Advancement (AEC... more

Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued wo... more

From 12 years The authors released a radioplay of this book in April 2016. More information at www.c... more

of steel s possible futures, Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World by world-renowned author Vaclav Smil...... more

of carcinogens in the air, accelerating erosion, and industrial pollution. Originally published in 1984, Vaclav Smil...... more

high-energy societies. Vaclav Smil presents a systematic survey of the qualities, origins, extraction, processing and...... more

Candles in the Dark is an international compendium of essays that share a sense of the importance of... more

Just as there is love at first sight between people, Václav Cílek writes, there can be love at first... more

This volume provides challenges and Opportunities with updated, in-depth material on the application... more

This volume presents the proceedings of the First Euro-China Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis... more

How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerializ... more

Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and... more

Meat eating is often a contentious subject, whether considering the technical, ethical, environmenta... more

planet within twenty-four hours? In Prime Movers of Globalization, Vaclav Smil offers a history of two key technical...... more

The two LNAI volumes 7208 and 7209 constitute the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on... more

The two LNAI volumes 7208 and 7209 constitute the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on... more

During the last 20 years interest in high-resolution x-ray diffractometry and reflectivity has grown... more

Desmond Tutu and Vaclav Havel and a Conclusion from Gareth Evans, these in-depth and authoritative analyses move beyond theory...... more

Software Engineering: The Current Practice teaches students basic software engineering skills and he... more

Information Systems Development: Business Systems and Services: Modeling and Development, is the col... more