Numbers don't lie : 71 stories to help us understand the modern 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 yo...
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New York :
Penguin Books,
[2021]
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Table of 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.