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How I Learned to Understand the World

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

Hans Rosling

How I Learned to Understand the World
How I Learned to Understand the World

How I Learned to Understand the World

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

Hans Rosling

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Description

The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling - Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness.

Filled with his signature warmth and wit, our late friend Hans Rosling's memoir is an inspirational read about a life that touched so many. Hans' work focused on data and research, but as this book makes clear, people were at the heart of his story. More than ever, our world needs the lessons Hans shares in these pages: to be guided by evidence and to live with optimism that we can make progress. This book provides a dose of hope in difficult times.

SELECT PRAISE FOR FACTFULNESS: 'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases.' Barack Obama

One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.

Wonderful . . . a passionate and erudite message that is all the more moving because it comes from beyond the grave . . . His knack for presentation and delight in statistics come across on every page. Who else would choose a chart of "guitars per capita" as a proxy for human progress?

A powerful antidote to pervasive pessimism and populist untruths.

A light-hearted but data-rich book, calibrates our view of the world and explains how our cognitive processes can lead us astray

Hans Rosling was a medical doctor, professor of international health and renowned public educator. He was an adviser to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, and co-founded Médecins sans Frontières in Sweden and the Gapminder Foundation. His TED talks have been viewed more than 35 million times, and he was listed as one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Hans died in 2017, having devoted the last years of his life to writing Factfulness.

Specifications

  • Publisher
    Sceptre
  • Translator
    Anna Paterson
  • Pub date
    Nov 2020
  • Pages
    256
  • Theme
    Memoirs
  • Dimensions
    218 x 138 x 28 mm
  • Weight
    380 gram
  • EAN
    9781529375022
  • Hardback / bound
    Hardback / bound
  • Language
    English

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