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According to Wikipedia, Vaclav Smil is a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His interdisciplinary research interests encompass energy, environmental, food, population, economic, historical and public policy studies. He has also applied these approaches to energy, food and environmental affairs of China.

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PHOSPHORUS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: Natural Flows and Human Interferences (2000) (1119)
Nitrogen in crop production: An account of global flows (1999) (910)
Detonator of the population explosion (1999) (628)
Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties (2005) (497)
Book of numbers (1996) (484)
Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production (2000) (463)
Nitrogen and Food Production: Proteins for Human Diets (2002) (456)
Feeding the world: a challenge for the twenty-first century. (2000) (447)
Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects (2010) (429)
Losing the Links Between Livestock and Land (2005) (388)
Crop Residues: Agriculture's Largest Harvest (1999) (302)
Global Population and the Nitrogen Cycle (1997) (284)
Who Will Feed China? (1995) (250)
China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development (1993) (215)
Hydropolitics of the Nile Valley (1981) (211)
Worldwide transformation of diets, burdens of meat production and opportunities for novel food proteins (2002) (208)
International Trade in Meat: The Tip of the Pork Chop (2007) (201)
Energy in World History (1995) (184)
Eating Meat: Evolution, Patterns, and Consequences (2002) (182)
General Energetics: Energy in the Biosphere and Civilization (1991) (182)
American exceptionalism (2015) (151)
Examining energy transitions: A dozen insights based on performance (2016) (145)
The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China (1984) (134)
Energy crossroads (2013) (133)
Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact (2005) (129)
ENERGY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Resources, Conversions, Costs, Uses, and Consequences (2000) (129)
Energy and Civilization (2018) (129)
Improving Efficiency and Reducing Waste in Our Food System (2004) (128)
China's Agricultural Land (1999) (116)
Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate (2010) (112)
Perils of Long-Range Energy Forecasting (2000) (108)
Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses (2015) (104)
Energy in Nature and Society (2007) (103)
Harvesting the biosphere: the human impact. (2011) (101)
Laying down the law (2000) (91)
Population Growth and Nitrogen: An Exploration of a Critical Existential Link (1991) (83)
Energy and Civilization: A History (2017) (83)
World History and Energy (2004) (82)
The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change (2002) (82)
World Resources 1986 (1986) (81)
Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature (2012) (80)
Environmental Degradation in China (1980) (75)
How Many People Can the Earth Feed (1994) (74)
Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization (2013) (73)
China's past, China's future : energy, food, environment (2004) (69)
Should We Eat Meat?: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory (2013) (68)
Crop Residues : Agriculture ' s Largest Harvest Crop residues incorporate more than half of the world ' s agricultural phytomass (2007) (67)
Global Ecology: Environmental Change and Social Flexibility (1993) (67)
Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization (1998) (64)
Environmental problems in China : estimates of economic costs (1996) (62)
Cycles of Life: Civilization and the Biosphere (1997) (62)
China's Energy and Resource Uses: Continuity and Change (1998) (55)
Agriculture. Losing the links between livestock and land. (2005) (50)
Energy: A Beginner's Guide (2006) (50)
Natural Gas: Fuel for the 21st Century (2015) (45)
Energy, Food, Environment: Realities, Myths, Options (1988) (41)
Creating The Twentieth Century (2005) (39)
Deforestation in China (1983) (38)
The long slow rise of solar and wind. (2013) (37)
Biomass Energies: Resources, Links, Constraints (1983) (36)
Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines (2010) (34)
Feeding the World (2000) (33)
Energy Analysis And Agriculture: An Application To U.s. Corn Production (1982) (32)
China's Past, China's Future (2003) (32)
Eating meat: Constants and changes ☆ (2014) (31)
Some unorthodox perspectives on agricultural biodiversity. The case of legume cultivation (1997) (30)
A skeptic looks at alternative energy (2012) (30)
Global Energy: The Latest Infatuations (2011) (30)
Energy in China's Modernization (1988) (30)
The Next 50 Years: Fatal Discontinuities (2005) (29)
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities (2019) (29)
Planetary Warming: Realities and Responses (1990) (25)
Environmental change as a source of conflict and economic losses in China (1992) (25)
Global catastrophes and trends : the next 50 years (2008) (25)
Why America Is Not a New Rome (2010) (24)
Energy in the developing world: the real energy crisis (1981) (24)
Phosphorus: Global Transfers (2002) (24)
Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts (2012) (23)
The Next 50 Years: Unfolding Trends (2005) (23)
Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing (2013) (23)
Long-range energy forecasts are no more than fairy tales (2008) (22)
Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World (2016) (22)
Energy flows in the developing world (1979) (22)
Distributed Generation and Megacities: Are Renewables the Answer? (2019) (22)
The two prime movers of globalization: history and impact of diesel engines and gas turbines (2007) (21)
Feeding the world: how much more rice do we need? (2005) (21)
China's Food (1985) (20)
China's food: availability, requirements, composition, prospects (1981) (20)
Transforming the twentieth century : technical innovations and their consequences (2006) (20)
China's Environment and Security: Simple Myths and Complex Realities (1997) (19)
Long-range perspectives on inorganic fertilizers in global agriculture. Travis P. Hignet Memorial Lecture, Florence, Alabama, USA, November 1, 1999. (1999) (19)
Energy in China's Modernization; Advances and Limitations (1989) (19)
International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics (2001) (18)
Coronary Heart Disease, Diet, and Western Mortality (1989) (18)
Energy, Food, Environment (1987) (16)
Harvesting the Biosphere (2012) (16)
China's environment in the 1980s: some critical changes (1992) (15)
How many billions to go? (1999) (15)
China on the Edge: The Crisis of Ecology and Development. (1993) (15)
China at the Limits. (Book Reviews: China's Environmental Crisis. An Inquiry Into the Limits of National Development.) (1993) (15)
Transforming the Twentieth Century: Volume 2: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences (2006) (14)
European energy elasticities (1976) (14)
Energy development in China: The need for a coherent policy (1981) (14)
CrossTalk (2021) (14)
Food Production and Quality of Diet in China (1986) (14)
China Shoulders the Cost of Environmental Change (1997) (14)
China's greenhouse gas emissions (1994) (13)
Transforming The Twentieth Century (2006) (11)
Intermediate energy technology in China (1976) (10)
Energy flows in rural China (1979) (10)
China’s Environment (1980) (10)
Horse power (2000) (10)
Energy and the environment—A Delphi forecast (1972) (10)
Energy Solution in China (1977) (10)
War and Energy (2004) (10)
CHina's potential in international coal trade: Guy Doyle International Energy Agency Coal Research, London, UK, 1987, 98 pp, [pound sign]85.00 (1988) (10)
Food, energy, and the environment: implications for Asia's rice agriculture. (1998) (10)
Magic beans (2000) (9)
Controlling the Yellow River (1979) (9)
Do we need higher farm yields during the first half of the 21st century (2005) (9)
Ecological mismanagement in China (1982) (9)
Carbon dioxide--alternative futures. (1974) (8)
Water News: Bad, Good and Virtual : Rational thinking about water may be key to ensuring a clean, plentiful supply (2008) (8)
Carbon nitrogen sulfur (1985) (8)
China's energy : achievements, problems, prospects (1978) (8)
Land use and management in the People's Republic of China (1981) (7)
Energy and the economy -a global and national analysis (1976) (7)
How Rich is China? (1993) (7)
Nature's Services, Human Follies: A Review Essay@@@Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems@@@The Ultimate Resource 2@@@Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use (1998) (7)
China's environment and natural resources. (1997) (7)
Light Behind the Fall: Japan's Electricity Consumption, the Environment, and Economic (2010) (7)
The Energy Question, Again (2000) (7)
Carbon-Nitrogen-Sulfur: Human Interference in Grand Biospheric Cycles (2012) (7)
U.S. Energy Policy: The Need for Radical Departures (2009) (7)
China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development : An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development (2016) (7)
3 – Food production (2002) (6)
America's Oil Imports: A Self-Inflicted Burden (2011) (6)
Grand Transitions (2021) (6)
Energy and the environment : a long range forecasting study (1974) (6)
Patterns of China's Lost Harmony: A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection . By Richard Louis Edmonds. [London: Routledge, 1994. viii + 334 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0–415–10478–5.] (1995) (6)
A Delphi forecast (1977) (6)
Some contrarian notes on environmental threats to national security (1994) (6)
Technical Innovations and Their Consequences (2006) (6)
The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century by Jürgen Osterhammel (review) (2015) (5)
Embodied energy: Mobile devices and cars [Numbers Don't Lie] (2016) (5)
What we do best. (2001) (5)
Renewable energies: how much and how renewable? (1979) (5)
The Unprecedented Shift in Japan's Population: Numbers, Age, and Prospects (2007) (5)
A perspective on global environmental crises (1987) (5)
Energy intensities: revealing or misleading? (1994) (5)
Fossil-Fueled Civilization (2018) (5)
Energy/GDP relationships— the elastic snaps (1977) (5)
Agricultural Energy Costs: National Analyses (1992) (5)
Elusive links: energy, value, economic growth and quality of life (1992) (5)
Limits to Growth Revisited: A Review Essay (2005) (5)
Garrett James Hardin (Dallas 1915—Santa Barbara 2003) (2004) (5)
It'll be harder than we thought to get the carbon out [Blueprints for a Miracle] (2018) (5)
What I see when I see a wind turbine [Numbers Don't Lie] (2016) (5)
Energy Resources and Uses: A Global Primer for the Twenty-First Century (2002) (4)
The roots of nitrogen fixation (2004) (4)
Technological changes and the energy cost of U.S. grain corn (1983) (4)
Future of Oil: Trends and Surprises (1998) (4)
China's agro-ecosystem (1981) (4)
China's Oil Future: A Case of Modest Expectations (1978) (4)
Rocky Mountain Visions: A Review Essay* (2000) (4)
All human life is here (2000) (4)
Traditional Agriculture (2019) (3)
Global Population: Milestones, Hopes, and Concerns (1998) (3)
Energy: Burning desires (2011) (3)
Energy and air pollution: USA 1970--2020 (1975) (3)
Energy in China: Achievements and Prospects (1976) (3)
Transforming the 20th Century (2006) (3)
A new world of energy (2015) (3)
Review: Collapse (2005) (3)
Planet of the cows [Numbers Don't Lie] (2017) (3)
China's energy advances and limitations (1985) (3)
Conversion of Energy: People and Animals (2004) (3)
A New Civilization (2005) (2)
Preindustrial Prime Movers and Fuels (2018) (2)
Eating Better (1985) (2)
Yangtze! Yangtze! Debate Over the Three Gorges Project . Edited by Qing Dai, translated by Liu N. et al. [London & Toronto: Probe International, Earthscan Publications, 1994 (Chinese ed. 1989). xxvii + 295 pp. £12.95, $14.95. ISBN 1-85383-187-5.] (1995) (2)
THE AGE OF ELECTRICITY. (2005) (2)
The Shadow of Droughts' Deaths (2001) (2)
Decarbonization Algebra: The COP26 Calls for Impossibly Steep Cuts in Carbon Emissions: Numbers Don't Lie (2022) (2)
The visionary energy solution: triple windows [Number Don't Lie] (2015) (2)
Thank Maxwell for cellphones [Numbers Don't Lie] (2017) (2)
What We Need to Know about the Pace of Decarbonization (2019) (2)
China claims lead in biogas energy supply (1977) (2)
Modern Ironmaking and Steelmaking: Furnaces, Processes, and Casting (2016) (2)
The Realistic Potential of Biogas (1986) (2)
Essentials of Energy Technology: Sources, Transport, Storage, Conservation. By Jochen Fricke and Walter L. Borst (2014) (2)
Reducing the Carbon and Sulfur Load of the Atmosphere (2013) (2)
March 1958: The first PVS in orbit [Numbers Don't Lie] (2018) (2)
China's Energy Prospects: A Tentative Appraisal (1978) (2)
Feeding China’s People (1990) (1)
Fossil Fuel Futures (2005) (1)
Diesel engine at 120 [Numbers Don’t Lie] (2017) (1)
Population & the Environment in China.Qu Geping , Li Jinchang , Jiang Baozhong , Gu Ran , Robert B. Boardman (1995) (1)
Animal and Human Wastes (1983) (1)
Animals vs. artifacts: Which are more diverse? [Opinion] (2019) (1)
Fossil Fuels, Primary Electricity, and Renewables (2018) (1)
Long-Distance Water Transfer: A Chinese Case Study and International Experiences. Edited by A. K. Biswas, Zuo Dakang, J. Nickum and Liu Changming. [Dublin: Tycooly International, 1983. 417 pp. Hardcover $65.00; paperback $37.50.] (1985) (1)
Units and Abbreviations (2005) (1)
The Subterranean Forest Energy Systems and the Industrial Revolution. By Rolf Peter Sieferle. Cambridge: The White Horse Press, 2001. Pp. x, 230. £35.00 (2003) (1)
Poor Visibility on China ’ s Air Pollution by Vaclav Smil 2 (2007) (1)
Iron and Steel Before the Eighteenth Century: Slow Adoption, Artisanal Production, and Scaling-Up (2016) (1)
Review Article: Worrying about the Environment (2004) (1)
A Century of Advances, 1914–2014: Changing Leadership in Iron and Steel Industry (2016) (1)
The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China.@@@The State of India's Environment 1982: A Citizens' Report. (1985) (1)
Drivers of environmental change: focus on energy transitions (2011) (1)
Electric Flight: Batteries are Nowhere Near Able to Sustain Wide-Body Airliners Over Flights Measuring in the Thousands of Kilometers: Numbers Don't Lie (2021) (1)
Land Requirements of Energy Systems (2004) (1)
Akira Iriye, editor. Global Interdependence: The World after 1945. (2015) (1)
Dietrich Stoltzenberg.Fritz Haber: Chemist, Nobel Laureate, German, Jew. xxiii + 326 pp., illus., index. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2004. $40 (cloth). (2005) (1)
China: A Quantitative Comparison of Development, 1950-1970 (1979) (1)
Energy policy faces limited choices (1974) (1)
Energy Costs and Environmental Impacts of Iron and Steel Production: Fuels, Electricity, Atmospheric Emissions, and Waste Streams (2016) (1)
LAND USE AND LAND COVER IN EASTERN CHINA: A LANDSAT ANALYSIS (1985) (1)
The Last Eighty Years: Continuities and Change (2013) (1)
Long-term Trends and Achievements (2005) (1)
China’s Environmental Morass (1989) (1)
Bluefin tuna: Fast, but maybe not fast enough [Numbers Don't Lie] (2017) (1)
6. Nitrogen in modern European agriculture (2005) (1)
Energiewende, 20 years later - [CrossTalk] (2020) (1)
Who will feed China? : concerns and prospects for the next generation (1996) (1)
Response to the comment by Artur Grandstedt (2002) (1)
January 1958: European economic community (2018) (1)
Global Material Cycles and Energy (2004) (1)
Meat in Modern Societies (2013) (1)
Feeding China: From Wanting to Wasting (2003) (1)
Making Sense of Power Densities (2015) (1)
It's too soon to judge shale gas [Numbers Don't Lie] (2015) (1)
The Hyperloop is Hyper Old: Elon Musk Merely Renamed a 200-Year-Old Dream: Numbers Don't Lie (2021) (1)
Perspectives on Energy in the People's Republic of China (1977) (1)
Chinese energy demand falls back (1977) (1)
Human Energetics: People as Simple Heterotrophs (2008) (1)
Food waste [Numbers Don't Lie] (2016) (1)
Sputnik at 60 [Numbers Don't Lie] (2017) (1)
Food Consumption and Nutritional Status in the P.R.C. (1987) (1)
Photosynthesis: Bioenergetics of Primary Production (2008) (0)
Transformers, the unsung technology [Numbers Don't Lie] (2017) (0)
Boeing at 100 [Numbers Don't Lie] (2016) (0)
Fossil-Fueled Civilization: Patterns and Trends (2008) (0)
Quantitative Keys to Understanding Energy (2015) (0)
Extreme Designs: From the pyramids to the Hummer, more is often less: Numbers Don't Lie (2022) (0)
Numbers Don't Lie (2021) (0)
China's perplexing energy triangle (1979) (0)
Environment and Population Change (1997) (0)
Asian food systems under dietary transition and climatic changes (2009) (0)
Global Warming and Future Fossil Fuel Consumption (1989) (0)
Numbers Don't Lie (2021) (0)
The year is 118 A.A.C. (after air conditioning) - [CrossTalk] (2020) (0)
Keep on flying [Numbers Don't Lie] (2015) (0)
Symposium: Overpopulation and contraception. Introduction (1994) (0)
Chinese oil production slows but long-term prospects look good (1976) (0)
The Outlook: Appraising the Limitations (2019) (0)
Preindustrial Complexification: Prime Movers and Fuels in Traditional Societies (2008) (0)
Why chicken rules - [CrossTalk] (2020) (0)
Planetary Energetics: Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Lithosphere (2008) (0)
Energy Costs: Valuations and Changes (2008) (0)
Sun and Earth (1998) (0)
Numbers Don't Lie (2021) (0)
Life-and-Death Chemistry (2005) (0)
“New Japan” at 70 [Numbers Don’t Lie] (2015) (0)
China’s Energy Performance (1977) (0)
The demand and supply of primary energy in Mainland China : Taipei, Taiwan: Chung-hua Institution for Economic Research, 1984. vii + 178 pp. $22.00 (1986) (0)
The Universal Link: Energetics, Energy, and Power (2008) (0)
Global biogeochemical cycles (2002) (0)
Peak oil: A retrospective - [CrossTalk] (2020) (0)
Nelson River offers long-term hydro base for Manitoba (1976) (0)
Our Changing Environment (1989) (0)
Science in culture (2000) (0)
Japan's Economy in 2012: Multiple Challenges (2012) (0)
Flying without kerosene [Numbers Don't Lie] (2016) (0)
(Not) drinking wine - [CrossTalk] (2020) (0)
Crossing the atlantic [Numbers Don't Lie] (2018) (0)
12 Fragenan … 12 Questions to … (2014) (0)
What It Takes to Produce Meat (2013) (0)
Environmental Consequences: Metabolism of Fossil-Fueled Civilization (2008) (0)
Fossil Fuels: Heat, Light, and Prime Movers (2008) (0)
Daniel R. Headrick. Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present. (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World.) Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2010. Pp. x, 400. $35.00 (2011) (0)
What Goes Up…: World Population Growth has Slowed, and Some Countries are Actually Declining: Numbers Don't Lie (2021) (0)
Bill Gates’ Guru: “I'm Not Impressed With Silicon Valley.” “I Don't Have a Cell Phone.” “I Never Blog.” (2019) (0)
Looking Back: Advances, Flows and Stocks (2016) (0)
Epochal Transitions (2021) (0)
Agricultures and Diets (2021) (0)
Vacation reading (2010) (0)
Cranes (the machines, not birds) - [CrossTalk] (2020) (0)
Meat in Nutrition (2013) (0)
Good Eats (2019) (0)
Energetic Correlates: Complexities of High-Energy Civilization (2008) (0)
Taiwan energy plans emphasize electricity (1978) (0)
Learning from China? Development and Environment in Third World Countries . Edited by Bernhard Glaeser. London: Allen and Unwin, 1987. xviii, 282 pp. $39.95. (1988) (0)
Numbers Don't LIE (2021) (0)
Food in China (1978) (0)
Trees for Energy (1983) (0)
How Power Density Matters (2015) (0)
Earthquake strikes at China's energy centers. [Tangshan, July 1976] (1976) (0)
Claiming the Nile - [CrossTalk] (2020) (0)
The Economics of Energy Policy in China: Implications for Global Climate Change. Zhongxiang Zhang (1999) (0)
SOLUTIONS AND LIMITATIONS (2015) (0)
COVID: Excess Mortalities Two Years Later: The death toll is increasingly comparable to that of the 1918-1920 flu (2022) (0)
Thomas R. Degregori.The Environment, Our Natural Resources, and Modern Technology. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2002. Pp. xxvii+224. $54.99 (cloth). (2003) (0)
New Realities and Counterintuitive Worlds (2006) (0)
The Great Inheritance (2005) (0)
Energy in Prehistory (2018) (0)
Transportation, Communication, Information: (2006) (0)
SUVs Ascendant: Growth in SUV Use Could More than Offset Carbon Savings from Electric Vehicles: Numbers Don't Lie (2021) (0)
China’s Water Resources (1979) (0)
Communication and Information (2005) (0)
Modernization: Energy for the Quadrupled Economy (2019) (0)
Numbers Don't Lie: Electricity's Slow Rollout: The spread of electricity has followed a protracted and characteristic pattern—slow, then fast, then slow again (2022) (0)
Numbers Don't Lie (2021) (0)
May 1888: Tesla files his patents for the electric motor [Numbers Don't Lie] (2018) (0)
The temperature of everything (2002) (0)
The Carbon Footprint of Plate Glass: The Energy Required is Not Transparent: Numbers Don't Lie (2022) (0)
Thomas R. Degregori, The Environment, Our Natural Resources, and Modern Technology :The Environment, Our Natural Resources, and Modern Technology (2003) (0)
Peak Oil and Future of Energy (2009) (0)
Unemployment: Pick a number [Numbers Don't Lie] (2017) (0)
Plants and Animals (1998) (0)
China's Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development.@@@Megaproject: A Case Study of China's Three Gorges Project. (1994) (0)
Selected Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols (2008) (0)
World Problems of Energy Supplies: Review@@@World Energy: Issues and Policies: Proceedings of the First Oxford Energy Seminar (September, 1979)@@@Energy in the Developing World: The Real Energy Crisis (1981) (0)
Extraction and Utilization: Two Economies (2019) (0)
Materials in Modern Iron and Steel Production (2016) (0)
Renewable Energy Flows (2015) (0)
Optimizing nitrogen management in food and energy production, and environment change - Reponse (2002) (0)
On Meat, Fish and Statistics: The Global Food Regime and Animal Consumption in the United States and Japan (2010) (0)
Small Hydro Power in China: A Survey . By the Hangzhou Regional Centre (Asia-Pacific) for Small Hydro Power. [London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1985. 107 pp.] (1987) (0)
Heterotrophic Conversions: Consumer Bioenergetics (2008) (0)
Rise of Modern Ferrous Metallurgy, 1700–1850: Coke, Blast Furnaces, and Expensive Steel (2016) (0)
Carroll Pursell.Technology in Postwar America: A History.:Technology in Postwar America: A History (2008) (0)
A New Era or an Ephemeral Phenomenon (2006) (0)
China's Energy Technology (2019) (0)
Slow cycling [Numbers Don't Lie] (2017) (0)
Building the Great Pyramid - CrossTalk (2020) (0)
Ubiquitous Uses of Steel: Sectoral Consumption and the Quest for Quality (2016) (0)
How much energy in the world's forests (1978) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
Delusions and degradation. (2001) (0)
Heating houses: Running out of combustion efficiency [Numbers Don't Lie] (2016) (0)
Iron and Steel Before WW I, 1850–1914: The Age of Affordable Steel (2016) (0)
New look at energy and GDP (gross domestic product) correlation. [New statistical approach to computer analysis] (1976) (0)
Numbers Don't Lie (2021) (0)
New Materials and New Syntheses (2005) (0)
People and Food (1998) (0)
History and Risk (2020) (0)
Lessons, Outlooks, Consequences (1985) (0)
Book of numbers (1996) (0)
Learning from Ta-ch'ing: China's Oil Prospects@@@The Petroleum Industry of the People's Republic of China.@@@Energy Policies of the World: China.@@@Die Olwirtschaft der Volksrepublik China.@@@China's Petroleum Industry: Output, Growth and Export Potential.@@@China's Energy: Achievements, Problems, P (1977) (0)
Grand Patterns: Energetic and Other Essentials (2008) (0)
Running, sweating, and persistence hunting [Numbers Don't Lie] (2016) (0)
Energy Security and Economic Development in East Asia . Edited by Ronald C. Keith. [London: Crom Helm, 1986. 303 pp. £25.00.[ (1989) (0)
Energy and the Environment (1985) (0)
Does Energy Efficiency Explain Japan’s Economic Success? (1991) (0)
Meat in Human Evolution (2013) (0)
Traditional Food Production: Humans as Solar Farmers (2008) (0)
Outcomes and Outlooks (2021) (0)
Thermal Electricity Generation (2015) (0)
Communist China's food: still a long way to go. (1980) (0)
February 1878: The first phonograph (2018) (0)
Energy and Society (2018) (0)
A Boat Can Indeed be too Long and too Skinny: The Length-to-Beam Ratio Still has Practical Limits: Numbers Don't Lie (2021) (0)
China opts for small-scale energy techniques. [Micro hydro plants, small coal mines, methane from organic wastes] (1976) (0)
Africa's Access to Electricity: In an Era of Plenty, One Continent Still Lags: Numbers Don't Lie (2022) (0)
Transportation and Information (1998) (0)
Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China: The Politics of Knowledge . By H. Lyman Miller. [Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. xii + 370 pp. Hard cover $38.00, ISBN 0-295-97505-9; paperback $18.95, ISBN 0-295-97532-6.] (1997) (0)
Carroll Pursell. Technology in Postwar America: A History. New York: Columbia University Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 280. $35.00 (2008) (0)
China in the next century (1998) (0)
China's energy plans call for foreign assistance (1978) (0)
Chinese Energy: Commonalities and Peculiarities (2019) (0)
Resources: Riches and Poverty (2019) (0)
China reveals long-term energy development plans (1978) (0)
Looking Ahead: The Future of Iron and Steel (2016) (0)

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