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From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts.


Included in BILL GATES's 2023 Holiday Reading List
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Every Smil book that I own is marked up with lots of notes that I take while reading. Invention and Innovation is no exception. Even when I disagree with him, I learn a lot from him...he always strengthens my thinking.
—Bill Gates, Gates Notes

The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this

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      Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/02/2023
      ISBN13: 9780262048057, 978-0262048057
      ISBN10: 0262048051

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts.


      Included in BILL GATES's 2023 Holiday Reading List
Included in Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023
Included in The Next Big Idea Club’s February 2023 Must-Read Books

Every Smil book that I own is marked up with lots of notes that I take while reading. Invention and Innovation is no exception. Even when I disagree with him, I learn a lot from him...he always strengthens my thinking.
—Bill Gates, Gates Notes

      The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this

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