Numbers Dont Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World

Autor:	Václav Smil
Liczba stron:	366
ISBN:	9780241989692
Rok wydania:	2023
Wydawca:	Penguin Books
Język:	Angielski

cena: 71.31 zł

dostępność: nie

My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Dont Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning Bill Gates Is flying dangerous? How much do the worlds cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From Earths nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this affects the planet itself - in Numbers Dont Lie, Professor Vaclav Smil takes us on a fact-finding adventure, using surprising statistics and illuminating graphs to challenge lazy thinking. Smil is on a mission to make facts matter, because after all, numbers may not lie, but which truth do they convey? Smils title says it all: to understand the world, you need to follow the trendlines, not the headlines. This is a compelling, fascinating, and most important, realistic portrait of the world and where its going Steven Pinker The best book to read to better understand our world. It should be on every bookshelf! Linda Yueh There is perhaps no other academic who paints pictures with numbers like Smil Guardian Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of over forty books on topics including energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment and public policy. No other living scientist has had more books (on a wide variety of topics) reviewed in Nature. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. This is his first book for a more general readership.

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Numbers Dont Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World