內容簡介
內容簡介 為什麼比爾.蓋茲會自掏腰包,讓全美大學生人手一本《真確》,甚至要求每個微軟的員工都要讀?是什麼樣的人生歷程與思辨,讓漢斯.羅斯林成為舉世聞名的全球公衛學家與教育家,並以《真確》揭露世界的真相,扭轉我們的直覺偏誤?以TED演講與《真確》聞名於世的漢斯.羅斯林,擅於運用活潑數據解釋世界的真貌,是我們這個時代最受歡迎的學者。2016年,醫生無預警通知他得了胰臟癌,漢斯立刻決定排除萬難寫下這本書,完整公開他的一生,以及他如何學會理解世界、在生命最艱難的時刻做出抉擇。本書從漢斯.羅斯林兒時透過咖啡豆產地認識國家寫起,描述一名出身寒微的年輕人,藉由科學深入各個角落,重新詮釋這個世界。他隨時願意承認錯誤,接受相悖的觀點,一次又一次挑戰自己的既定想法,逐步克服偏見,形塑自己的價值觀與人生思辨,並因此致力於運用數據揭露事實,寫下《真確》一書,影響力遍及全球。無論是在資源窘迫的非洲納卡拉急診室徹底反思醫者的價值,或是在世界經濟論壇以真確問題檢視全球領導人的無知,甚至是因為過於專注地實踐理想差點被太太掃地出門,漢斯.羅斯林持續將自己的生命奉獻給世界。他值得你認識,你也需要知道,世界上曾經走過這樣一個美好的靈魂。本中文書介出自《我如何真確理解世界: 漢斯.羅斯林的人生思辨》先覺出版股份有限公司出版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 RönnlundThis 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."
作者介紹
作者介紹 Hans Rosling (漢斯.羅斯林)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.