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How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going

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“Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his ‘just the facts’ posture—but you probably shouldn’t ignore him.”—The Washington Post

An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish.


We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know how the ...