Numbers Don't Lie
71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
[New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2021.
Format: Book
Description: xvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
"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.
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.
Subjects:
Civilization, Modern.
Globalization.
World politics.
Technology and civilization.
Human ecology.
Statistics.
Civilization, Modern.
Globalization.
World politics.
Technology and civilization.
Human ecology.
Statistics.
ISBN:
9780143136224
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GENERAL INFO Smi | St. Andrews Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.