When you ask people simple questions about global trends, they systematically get the answers wrong. How many young women go to school? What’s the average life expectancy across the world? What will the global population will be in 2050? Do the majority of people live in rich or poor countries? In ‘Factfulness,’ Hans Rosling and his two lifelong collaborators, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling-Rönnlund, show why this happens. Based on a lifetime’s work promoting a fact-based worldview, they reveal the ten dramatic instincts, and the key preconceptions, that lead to us consistently misunderstanding how the world really works. Inspiring and revelatory, ‘Factfulness’ is a book of stories by a late legend, for anyone who wants to really understand the world.
Factfulness
€14.00
Description
‘One of the most important books I’ve ever read – an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world’ BILL GATES
‘A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases’ BARACK OBAMA
The international bestseller, inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world, and make you realise things are better than you thought.
*#1 Sunday Times bestseller * New York Times bestseller * Observer ‘best brainy book of the decade’ * Irish Times bestseller * audiobook bestseller * Guardian bestseller *
Additional information
| Weight | 0.255 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.1 cm |
| Book_author | Rosling, Hans |
| Publisher | Sceptre |
| Imprint | Sceptre |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | x, 342 , 4 unnumbered of plates |
| Language | English |
| Edition | |
| Dewey | 303.49 (edition:23) |
| Readership | College – higher education / Code: F |
