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Numbers don't lie : 71 stories to help us understand the modern world
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Title
Numbers don't lie : 71 stories to help us understand the modern world / Vaclav Smil.
ISBN
9780143136224
0143136224
9780525507819
Publication
[New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2021.
Physical Description
xvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary
"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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Numbers do not lie
Other formats
Online version: Smil, Vaclav. Numbers don't lie [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2021
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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