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 ...