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Numbers don't lie : 71 stories to help us understand the modern world / Vaclav Smil.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2021Description: xvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143136224
Other title:
  • Numbers do not lie
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Numbers don't lieDDC classification:
  • 909 23
LOC classification:
  • CB358 .S65 2021
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.
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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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book Udaipur Fiction 909 SV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available IIMU-005237
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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?"-- Provided by publisher.

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