Factfulness. Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World

'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 * "A powerful antidote to pervasive pessimism and populist untruths." - Observer, Book of the Year "Factfulness ... , a light-hearted but data-rich book, calibrates our view of the world and explains how our cognitive processes can lead us astray" - New Statesman, The best books of 2018 "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?" - Financial Times "An immensely cheering book in these anxious times." - The Times "An assault both on ignorance and pessimism . . . helping countries improve their governance and public health and opening them up to the rule of law and market exchange works. But not by some sort of magic. Because we act. And to this, as Rosling argues, we first have to understand the world we live in." - The Times "We need more of this way of thinking, both in business and politics. Where better to start than a new book by one of Gates' favourite gurus, the late Swedish statistician Hans Rosling . . . in an age of so-called post-truth, this is a celebration of the all too often repudiated but underlying story of relentless human progress." - Sunday Telegraph "[Bill] Gates had selected the tomes as his favourite summer reads . . . [which included] feel-good non-fiction . . . celebrating technological progress and genius, such as Hans Rosling's Factfulness." - FT Magazine "Three minutes with Hans Rosling will change your mind about the world." - Nature "Thoroughly researched and clearly written . . . this is a measured, objective, and ultimately optimistic account of where we are and how we got here." - Independent "Triumphant." - Sunday Times "Bestselling books about statistics are as rare as unicorns. One that gets to No.1 is as rare as a lunar unicorn. Factfulness by Hans Rosling is that moon-based creature . . . engaging." - The Times "Factfulness is a fabulous read, succinct and lively. It asks why so many people - including Nobel laureates and medical researchers - get the numbers so wrong on pressing issues such as poverty, pandemics and climate change... a just tribute to this book and the man would be a global day of celebration for facts about our world." - Nature "Rosling's final work is about the misconceptions most people hold about the world we live in - it's better than we think - and a plea to think critically." - Metro "An unexpectedly uplifting read." - Emerald Street "The message is refreshingly clear: when you only hold opinions about things you know the facts about, you can see the world more clearly." - Mr Hyde "[An] accessible, smart-thinking read which reveals the preconceptions that make us misunderstand the way the world works" - Daily Mirror "[A] smart read" - Sunday Express "It was such a hopeful book - it's about why society is better off than we think and how many of the problems we think exist, don't" - Vogue "I recommend starting 2021 with the late Hans Rosling's book, Factfulness - for incontrovertible evidence of "the secret, silent miracle of human progress."" - Daily Mail Автори: Ганс Рослінг, Анна Рослінг-Рьонлюнг, Уля Рослінг