Numbers Don't lie : : 71 Stories to Help us Understand the Modern World
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People : the inhabitants of our world -- Countries : nations in the age of globalization -- Machines, designs, devices : inventions that made our modern world -- Fuels and electricity : energizing our societies -- Transport : how we get around -- Food : energizing ourselves -- Environment : damaging and protecting our world.
"Vaclav Smil's mission is to make facts matter. An environmental scientist, policy analyst, and a hugely prolific author, he is Bill Gates' go-to guy for making sense of our world. In Numbers Don't Lie, Smil answers questions such as: What's worse for the environment--your car or your phone? How much do the world's cows weigh (and what does it matter)? And what makes people happy?"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Books, 2021.
Year Published: 2021
Description: 350 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780143136224
0143136224
SUBJECTS
Civilization, Modern.
Globalization.
World politics.
Technology and civilization.
Human ecology.
Statistics.