Numbers don't lie :
Smil, Vaclav,
Numbers don't lie : 71 stories to help us understand the modern world / Numbers do not lie Vaclav Smil. - New Delhi : Penguin Books, 2021. - xvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?"--
9780143136224
2020055032
Civilization, Modern.
Globalization.
World politics.
Technology and civilization.
Human ecology.
Statistics.
CB358 / .S65 2021
909
Numbers don't lie : 71 stories to help us understand the modern world / Numbers do not lie Vaclav Smil. - New Delhi : Penguin Books, 2021. - xvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?"--
9780143136224
2020055032
Civilization, Modern.
Globalization.
World politics.
Technology and civilization.
Human ecology.
Statistics.
CB358 / .S65 2021
909