- Published: 1 December 2020
- ISBN: 9780241454428
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $40.00
Numbers Don't Lie
71 Things You Need to Know About the World
Formats & editions
- Published: 1 December 2020
- ISBN: 9780241454428
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $40.00
There is perhaps no other academic who paints pictures with numbers like Smil
Guardian
Smil is an ambitious and astonishing polymath who swings for fences
Wired
An author who does not allow facts to be obscured or overshadowed by politics
New York Review of Books
Vaclav Smil has led a 30-year career of interdisciplinary contrarianism, writing hundreds of scientific articles and dozens of books attacking sacred cows of Western environmental and geopolitical thought
Foreign Policy