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Title Statement | Numbers don't lie: 71 stories to help us understand the modern world / Vaclav Smil. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Numbers do not lie |
Author | Smil, Vaclav |
Publication | [New York,]: Penguin Books,2021.©2020 |
Extent of Item | xvi, 350 pages |
ISBN | 9780143136224 (pbk.) 0143136224 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3991638 |
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. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index. |
Summary | An essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world. By answering questions like: 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, Smil encourages readers to re-evaluate what they take to be true. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Human ecology |
Technology and civilization | |
World politics | |
Globalization | |
Statistics | |
Civilization, Modern |