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

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    Voix de: Ben Prendergast
    Publisher:
    Penguin Books, 2021
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Voix de: Ben Prendergast
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    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
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  • Author: Smil, Vaclav
    Contributor: Prendergast, Ben
    Date:
    Created
    2021
    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?

    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.
    Genre:
    Political science
    Sujets: Civilization, Modern | Globalization | Human ecology | Statistics | Technology and civilization | World politics
    Original Publisher: [New York, New York], Penguin Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780593393239, 0593393236