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

By:

Smil, Vaclav [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2021Description: pages cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780143136224 (paperback)

Other title:

Numbers do not lie
Numbers dont lie

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Numbers don't lieDDC classification:

909 23

LOC classification:

CB358 .S65 2021

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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
BOOK	Meaford Public Library Non-Fiction	Non-fiction	909 Smil (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		29513

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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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