Vaclav Smil Reading Order
1 series · 57 books
Vaclav Smil is a Czech-Canadian polymath whose prolific body of work examines the interconnections between energy, resources, food systems, and human development. Drawing on expertise spanning science, economics, and history, he has written more than fifty standalone books that tackle complex global challenges through rigorous quantitative analysis and long-term perspective. His research, developed over decades as a professor at the University of Manitoba, synthesizes data across disciplines to explain how technological and biological systems shape civilization and constrain our future possibilities.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete57 books
Start with Energy and the environment, the first of 57 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Biofuel Delusion |
| 2 | Cijfers liegen niet |
| 3 | Earth's Biosphere |
| 4 | Energy Transitions |
| 5 | Energy and Civilization |
| 6 | Energy in the Developing World |
| 7 | Energy myths and realities |
| 8 | Energy transitions |
| 9 | Energía y civilización. Una historia |
| 10 | Environmental problems in China |
| 11 | Grand Transitions |
| 12 | Growth |
| 13 | Harvesting The Biosphere What We Have Taken From Nature |
| 14 | How the World Really Works |
| 15 | Invention and Innovation |
| 16 | Japan's dietary transition and its impacts |
| 17 | Made in the USA |
| 18 | Making the Modern World |
| 19 | Meiguo zhi zao |
| 20 | Natural Gas |
| 21 | Numbers Don't Lie |
| 22 | Power Density |
| 23 | Prime movers of globalization |
| 24 | Should we eat meat? |
| 25 | Size |
| 26 | Still the Iron Age |
| 27 | The economic costs of China's environmental degradation |
| 28 | Energy and the environment 1974 |
| 29 | China's energy 1976 |
| 30 | Energy analysis and agriculture 1982 |
| 31 | Biomass energies 1983 |
| 32 | The bad earth 1984 |
| 33 | Carbon nitrogen sulfur 1985 |
| 34 | Energy, food, environment 1987 |
| 35 | Energy in China's modernization 1988 |
| 36 | General energetics 1991 |
| 37 | Environmental change as a source of conflict and economic losses in China 1992 |
| 38 | Potential environmental conflicts involving countries of the North Pacific 1992 |
| 39 | China's environmental crisis 1993 |
| 40 | Global ecology 1993 |
| 41 | Energy in world history 1994 |
| 42 | Who will feed China? 1996 |
| 43 | Cycles of life 1997 |
| 44 | Energies 1998 |
| 45 | Feeding the World 2000 |
| 46 | Enriching the Earth 2001 |
| 47 | Una Guia Ilustrada de La Biosfera y La Civilizacion 2001 |
| 48 | The Earth's Biosphere 2002 |
| 49 | China's past, China's future 2003 |
| 50 | Energy at the Crossroads 2003 |
| 51 | Creating the Twentieth Century 2004 |
| 52 | Energy 2006 |
| 53 | Transforming the twentieth century 2006 |
| 54 | Energy in Nature and Society 2008 |
| 55 | Global catastrophes and trends 2008 |
| 56 | Oil 2008 |
| 57 | Why America is not a new Rome 2010 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Vaclav Smil written?
- Vaclav Smil has written 57 books across 1 series. Their published works span from 1974 to 2010.
- Are Vaclav Smil's series complete?
- Vaclav Smil has 1 completed series.