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    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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    How I Learned to Understand the World: A Memoir

    Written by Hans Rosling and Fanny Härgestam

    Narrated by Christina Delaine and Simon Slater

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    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, Hans Rosling wrote his memoir with the same joy of storytelling that made a whole world listen when he spoke.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

    “Filled with his signature warmth and wit, our late friend Hans Rosling’s memoir is an inspirational read about a life that touched so many. Hans’ work focused on data and research, but as this book makes clear, people were at the heart of his story. More than ever, our world needs the lessons Hans shares in these pages: to be guided by evidence and to live with optimism that we can make progress. This book provides a dose of hope in difficult times.” – Bill and Melinda Gates

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    TranslatorDr Anna Paterson
    Release dateNov 10, 2020
    ISBN9781250776594
    Author

    Hans Rosling

    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 Factfulness.

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      What a beautiful life he lived! Thank you for this book! Cheers from Brazil ??