How I Learned to Understand the World: A Memoir

How I Learned to Understand the World: A Memoir

How I Learned to Understand the World: A Memoir

How I Learned to Understand the World: A Memoir

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Overview

The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund

This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.

It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that made the late Hans Rosling, author of the bestselling book Factfulness with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, the most popular researcher of our time.

How I Learned to Understand the World is Hans Rosling’s own story of how he became a revolutionary thinker, and takes us from the swelter of an emergency clinic in Mozambique, to the World Economic Forum at Davos.

In collaboration with Swedish journalist Fanny Härgestam and translated by Dr Anna Paterson, Hans Rosling wrote his memoir with the same joy of storytelling that made a whole world listen when he spoke.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250266897
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Publication date: 11/10/2020
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 312,287
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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 Doctors Without Borders 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 Factfulness.

Table of Contents

Foreword Agneta Rosling vii

Introduction ix

1 From Illiteracy to Academic Excellence 1

2 Discovering the World 23

3 To Nacala 51

4 From Medical Practice to Research 103

5 From Research to Teaching 145

6 From the Lecture Theater to Davos 175

7 Ebola 203

Afterword by Fanny Härgestam 227

Appendix: On Cassava 243

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