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Information is beautiful / David McCandless.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : William Collins 2012Edition: New edDescription: 255 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780007492893:
  • 9780007492893
  • 0007492898
Uniform titles:
  • Visual miscellaneum
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 741.6 23
LOC classification:
  • .M3 2012
Contents:
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
Summary: A visual guide to how the world really works, through stunning infographics and data visualisations, thoroughly revised, recalculated and reimagined for this new edition.
List(s) this item appears in: William Bates Memorial collection
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 741.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 82873
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 741.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 82874
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 741.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 82875

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.

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