Numbers Don't Lie Numbers Don't Lie

Numbers Don't Lie

71 Things You Need to Know About the World

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Descrizione dell’editore

'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't 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 world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy?

From Earth's 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 Don't 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?

'Smil's 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 it's 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.

GENERE
Scienza e natura
PUBBLICATO
2020
1 ottobre
LINGUA
EN
Inglese
PAGINE
384
EDITORE
Penguin Books Ltd
DATI DEL FORNITORE
Penguin Books Limited
DIMENSIONE
16,6
MB

Recensioni dei clienti

lorenzodrums ,

Numbers don’t lie if you know how to read them

Tens of topics, really interesting explanations about the world and how to read what’s happening, what happened and what probably will happen. Very very good!

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