by Vaclav Smil · PENGUIN GROUP · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780143136224
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«Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World» is Vaclav Smil's popular science essay, in paperback (368 pages, in English).
In 71 short chapters, Vaclav Smil analyzes with data and charts the impact on the planet of energy, transportation, food, population, and technology. Questions such as what pollutes more, the car or the cell phone, how much the world's cows weigh or what makes people happy invite us to question assumed ideas.
Published by Penguin Group on May 4, 2021; it falls within the categories of science, history, technology, and philosophy.
Recommended for science and statistics enthusiasts who want to approach data with short, independent readings.
Vaclav Smil is a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His interdisciplinary research interests encompass energy, environmental, food, population, economic, historical and public policy studies. He has also applied these approaches to energy, food and environmental affairs of China.
