Numbers don't lie : 71 stories to help us understand the modern world / Vaclav Smil.
By: Smil, Vaclav [author.].
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BookPublisher: [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2021.Description: xvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780143136224.Other title: Numbers do not lie.Subject(s): Civilization, Modern | Globalization | World politics | Technology and civilization | Human ecology | StatisticsDDC classification: 909 | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due |
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Indian Institute of Management Udaipur C10/3 | Fiction | 909 SV (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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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