Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund

Factfulness

Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Essential reading in the time of coronavirus: the international bestseller that will make you realise things are better than you thought

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 130mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9781473637498
• ISBN-10: 147363749X
• Artikelnr.: 54769329

Autorenporträt

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 this book. Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans's son and daughter-in-law, were co-founders of the Gapminder Foundation, and Ola its director from 2005 to 2007 and from 2010 to the present day. After Google acquired the bubble-chart tool called Trendalyzer, invented and designed by Anna and Ola, Ola became head of Google's Public Data Team and Anna the team's senior user experience (UX) designer. They have both received international awards for their work.

Inhaltsangabe

Content
Introduction
Chapter One The Gap Instinct
Chapter Two The Negativity Instinct
Chapter Three The Straight Line Instinct
Chapter Four The Fear Instinct
Chapter Five The Size Instinct
Chapter Six The Generalization Instinct
Chapter Seven The Destiny Instinct
Chapter Eight The Single Perspective Instinct
Chapter Nine The Blame Instinct
Chapter Ten The Urgency Instinct
Chapter Eleven Factfulness in Practice
Factfulness Rules of Thumb
Outro
Appendix: How Did Your Country Do?

Rezensionen

A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases. Barack Obama