UID:
kobvindex_INT0001217
Format:
255 pages
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illustrations, maps
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26 cm
Edition:
Revised edition
ISBN:
9780062236524
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0062236520
Content:
"The bestselling classic has been revised and updated! A colorful guide to the world's most consequential trivia, The Visual Miscellaneum now includes 18 all new graphs and 23 updated ones. It is a reference book like no other helping us make sense of our world by putting the data we are bombarded with every day-health findings, technological advances, cultural touch points, war statistics-into creative visual perspective. Using cutting edge graphs, charts, and illustrations, author David McCandless creatively visualizes the world's most surprising relationships and compelling data."
Content:
"The bestselling classic has been revised and updated! A colorful guide to the world's most consequential trivia, Visual Miscellaneum by David McCandless is a reference book like no other. It helps us make sense of our world by putting the data we are bombarded with every day-health findings, technological advances, cultural touch points, war statistics-into creative visual perspective. Like Show Me How by Lauren Smith and Schott's Miscellany, only more complete and satisfying, Visual Miscellaneum is a treat for the mind and the eye."
Note:
EDITORIAL NOTE: "The bestsellling classic, revised & reimagined"
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INDEX NOTE: includes index.
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Pop. Billion-dollar-o-gram -- International number ones -- Books everyone should read -- The "in" colours -- The "interesting" colours -- Simple part I -- Better than bacon -- Who clever are you? -- Types of facial hair -- Good news -- Immortality -- Red vs. blue -- Simple part II -- Most popular US girls' names -- Most popular US boys' names -- Web. The one machine -- What does China censor online? -- Google insights -- Looking for love online -- Articles of war -- Fast Internet -- Selling your soul -- Thought. Left vs. right -- Three's a magic number -- What is consciousness? -- Colours and culture -- Stages of you -- World religions -- Moral matrix -- Postmodernism -- 2012 : the end of the world? -- Being defensive -- Enneagram -- Nature. Small carbon -- Which fish are okay to eat? -- Stock check -- Amazon -- Carbon conscious -- Rising sea levels -- Water towers -- The carbon dioxide cycle -- Kyoto targets -- 30 years makes a difference -- Big carbon -- Amphibian extinction rates -- Science. Creation myths -- The book of you -- The book of me -- Personal computer evolution -- Low resolution -- Climate skeptics vs. the consensus -- Nature vs. nurture -- Scale of devastation -- Radiation dosage -- The future of energy -- The future of the future -- Health. Snake oil? -- Drugs world -- The sunscreen smokescreen -- The remedy -- What are the chances? -- Some things you can't avoid -- Body by -- Microbes most dangerous -- Cosmetic ingredients -- Things that'll give you cancer -- Alternative medicine. Food. Taste buds -- The poison -- The remedy -- Salad dressings -- Not nice -- Pass the -- Types of coffee -- The buzz vs. the bulge -- Daily diets -- Calories in, calories out -- Power. Who runs the world? -- Who really runs the world? -- Behind every great man -- War chests -- Peters projection -- The Middle East -- The Middle East : some context -- Life. Reduce your chances -- 20th century death -- Death spiral -- The varieties of romantic relationship -- Motive, timing and delivery -- Man's humanity to man -- Film. Time lines -- 22 stories -- Most profitable stories 2007 -- Most profitable stories 2008 -- Most profitable stories 2009 -- Most profitable stories 2010 -- Most profitable stories 2011 -- Most profitable stories of all time -- Media. Mountains out of molehills -- X "is the new" black -- Horoscoped -- Types of information visualization -- Music. Dance genre-ology -- Rock genre-ology -- Most successful rock bands
Language:
English
