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Christopher Brennan Library: Riverview Reads

Riverview Reads 2023

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World

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The Christopher Brennan Library has the following books related to the themes of Factfulness: 

About 'Factfulness' - Review from Readings.com

The international bestseller by legendary statisticians Hans, Ola and Anna Rosling: 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 BEST SELLER
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER

OBSERVER 'BEST BRAINY BOOK OF THE DECADE'

#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST SELLER

IRISH TIMES BEST SELLER

GUARDIAN BEST SELLER

LONGLISTED FOR 2018 FINANCIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR
ENDORSED BY BARACK OBAMA, BILL AND MELINDA GATES AND TOM HARFORD 

Hans and Ola Rosling : How not to be ignorant about the world

Bill Gates on 'Factfulness'

Author Profile

Hans Rosling (1948 - 2017)  from Uppsala, Sweden. Rosling was a Swedish physician and statistican who presented his collection of statistics using computer software, props and showmanship to illustrate and highlight his findings. 

He became a Youtube star after he presented at a 2006 TED conference with his presentation, 'The Best Stats You've Ever Seen'. 

In 2005, Rosling cofounded Gapminder , a foundation that seeks to place facts and statistics in the service of sustainable global development. The organization’s first project was the development of Trendalyzer software to convert statistics over time into animated graphics that made them easy to grasp. (The software was acquired by Google in 2007.)

'Factfullness: Ten Reasons we are wrong about the world' was published posthumously in 2018.

Gapminder company

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