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Author Smil, Vaclav, author.

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

Publication Info. [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2021.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2088804~S1
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 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  909 SMI    AVAILABLE
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Description xvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Civilization, Modern.
Globalization.
World politics.
Technology and civilization.
Human ecology.
Statistics.
Genre Nonfiction.
Added Title Numbers do not lie
ISBN 9780143136224 (trade paperback)
0143136224 (trade paperback)
9780241989692 paperback
Standard No. 40030636085
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