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Numbers Don't Lie - 71 Things You Need to Know About the World (Paperback)
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Numbers Don't Lie - 71 Things You Need to Know About the World (Paperback)
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'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far
his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to
anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this
book to anyone who loves learning' Bill Gates Is flying dangerous?
How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy?
From Earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods
that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our
modern world - and how all of this affects the planet itself - in
Numbers Don't Lie, Professor Vaclav Smil takes us on a fact-finding
adventure, using surprising statistics and illuminating graphs to
challenge lazy thinking. Smil is on a mission to make facts matter,
because after all, numbers may not lie, but which truth do they
convey? 'Smil's title says it all: to understand the world, you
need to follow the trendlines, not the headlines. This is a
compelling, fascinating, and most important, realistic portrait of
the world and where it's going' Steven Pinker 'The best book to
read to better understand our world. It should be on every
bookshelf!' Linda Yueh 'There is perhaps no other academic who
paints pictures with numbers like Smil' Guardian Vaclav Smil is
Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He
is the author of over forty books on topics including energy,
environmental and population change, food production and nutrition,
technical innovation, risk assessment and public policy. No other
living scientist has had more books (on a wide variety of topics)
reviewed in Nature. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in
2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global
Thinkers. This is his first book for a more general readership.
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