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

By: Smil, VaclavMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New Delhi : Penguin Books, 2021Description: xv,365 pages : illustrations; 21cmISBN: 9780241989692Subject(s): Civilization, Modern | Globalization | World politicsDDC classification: 909
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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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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