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02194aam a2200433 i 4500 001 F5EECB62BAC211EB9414F93B44ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210522010007 008 201226s2021 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020055032 020 $a 0143136224 020 $a 9780143136224 035 $a (OCoLC)1191214293 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OQX $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 082 00 $a 909 $2 23 100 1 $a Smil, Vaclav, $e author. 245 10 $a Numbers don't lie : $b 71 stories to help us understand the modern world / $c Vaclav Smil. 246 3 $a Numbers do not lie 246 30 $a 71 stories to help us understand the modern world 246 30 $a Seventy-one stories to help us understand the modern world 264 1 $a [New York, New York] : $b Penguin Books, $c 2021. 300 $a xvi, 350 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a 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?-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Civilization, Modern. 650 0 $a Globalization. 650 0 $a World politics. 650 0 $a Technology and civilization. 650 0 $a Human ecology. 650 0 $a Statistics. 941 $a 4 952 $l UGPF911 $d 20231207014840.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20211005011046.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722065020.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210522010025.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F5EECB62BAC211EB9414F93B44ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search