Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World "Vaclav Smil is my favorite author... I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning."--Bill Gates, GatesNotesFrom…
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Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
"Vaclav Smil is my favorite author... I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning."--Bill Gates, GatesNotesFrom the author of How the World Really Works, an essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world--exploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technology, transportation, and food production.Vaclav Smil's mission is to make facts matter. Numbers Don't Lie takes everything that makes his writing great and boils it down into an easy-to-read format.
In Numbers Don't Lie, Smil answers questions such as: What's worse for the environment--your car or your phone? An environmental scientist, policy analyst, and a hugely prolific author, he is Bill Gates' go-to guy for making sense of our world. How much do the world's cows weigh (and what does it matter)?
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