Information is beautiful /
McCandless, David.
Information is beautiful / David McCandless. - New ed. - London : Collins, 2012. - 255 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Includes index. Previous edition published by Collins in 2009. CW728 23.13
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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... -- Wat chests -- Peters projection -- The Middle East -- TheMiddle East: some context LIFE -- Reduce your chances... -- 20th-century death -- Death spiral -- The varieties of romantic relationships -- Motive, timing and delivery -- Man's humanity to man NATURE -- Small carbon -- Which fish are ok 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 sceptics 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 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
A visual guide to how the world really works, through stunning infographics and data visualisations, thoroughly revised, recalculated and reimagined for this new edition.
9780007492893: £20.00 9780007492893 0007492898
9780007492893
GBB259067 bnb
016106483 Uk
Curiosities and wonders--Pictorial works
Visual communication.
Information visualization.
Statistics--Charts, diagrams, etc
Statistics--Graphic methods
Curiosities and wonders.
General.
Gift books
General encyclopaedias
/ .M3 2012
741.6
Information is beautiful / David McCandless. - New ed. - London : Collins, 2012. - 255 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Includes index. Previous edition published by Collins in 2009. CW728 23.13
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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... -- Wat chests -- Peters projection -- The Middle East -- TheMiddle East: some context LIFE -- Reduce your chances... -- 20th-century death -- Death spiral -- The varieties of romantic relationships -- Motive, timing and delivery -- Man's humanity to man NATURE -- Small carbon -- Which fish are ok 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 sceptics 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 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
A visual guide to how the world really works, through stunning infographics and data visualisations, thoroughly revised, recalculated and reimagined for this new edition.
9780007492893: £20.00 9780007492893 0007492898
9780007492893
GBB259067 bnb
016106483 Uk
Curiosities and wonders--Pictorial works
Visual communication.
Information visualization.
Statistics--Charts, diagrams, etc
Statistics--Graphic methods
Curiosities and wonders.
General.
Gift books
General encyclopaedias
/ .M3 2012
741.6