Our World in Numbers: An Encyclopedia of Fantastic Facts

by D.K. Publishing

Zillions of fun figures at your fingertips!

Do you want to impress your friends with the most incredible facts and stats? Would you like to number-crunch your way around the wonders of our world?

Arm yourself with nuggets of number knowledge and fantastic figures with this data-filled book that explores everything in our world from space to sport and animals to art. How long does it take to put on a spacesuit? How many times does a sloth poo in a week? How many stone blocks are there in the Great Pyramid at Giza? What percentage of your brain do you really use?

With intriguing fact-bites and colourful graphics, Our World in Numbers is a feast of figures, packed with all the info you really want to know - and more!

Genres: Nonfiction, Science

192 pages, Hardcover

Published March 3, 2022

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Mehsi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Leuk boek met allerlei feitjes met nummers/getallen er in. Van religie tot steden tot boeken tot dieren, van alles komt voorbij en ik heb dan ook echt genoten van het boek. Ook een flink aantal aan mijn man voorgelezen, die af en toe ook OHHH en OMG ging. XD Leuk vond ik ook de mooie foto's!

[Sophie Crane]

This is such a Brilliant book! So many interesting things to read and learn. A lot of stats and interesting stuff. Thoroughly recommend.
(Thanks to DK & Net Galley for this Book).

[Theediscerning · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty decent data book for the junior library, that deposits factoids and trivia-seeming numerical facts on top of full-spread images, and adds in a few 'top tens' as well. So we get things as diverse as the tallest and shortest trees, data about human brain cells, and that essential for our lives, how many pet cats Russia has.

I mean, knowing how many different corals are on the Great Barrier Reef, how many tennis courts the Great Pyramid's footprint equates to, or how fast our toenails grow, won't gain anybody a qualification, but the impact of all these numerical superlatives should – if you're not turned off by all the digits (and the wonky Ls the font gives us) – make us marvel at the world around us, and perhaps think twice before gubbering it up even further than it is already.

[Chris Ellis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exactly as advertised on the cover, this is indeed "Our World in Numbers". Filled with interesting fact on a variety of subjects, all interspersed with beautiful photographs.

Who doesn't love a D. K. book - whatever the subject their books are always worth the time and give a great experience.

Great bathroom book!

[Paulx · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very attractive book in DK style. I noted a few typos. The film 'Gandhi' was released in 1982 not 1986. The claim that 300 million saw combat in WWII seems very high.

[PottWab Regional Library]

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