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.