The World Reduced to Infographics

Author: Patrick Casey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1612430112
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 111

Book Description
LIFE'S MYSTERIES, WHY HOT WOMEN LOVE TACO BELL, AND MUCH, MUCH LESS ARE FINALLY EXPLAINED IN A WAY THE REST OF US CAN UNDERSTAND--WITH FLASHY COLOR GRAPHICS Respected academics agree that The World Reduced to Infographics is jam-packed with colorful illustrations. Now you can finally understand complex facts with the ease and enjoyment of eating an ice cream sandwich. After all, any information that can’t be explained with a hilarious infographic isn’t worth knowing. • Are You Pregnant? Flow Chart • Doomed Cities of U.S. Map • Human Anatomy of Vices Diagram • Reasons to Go Fishing Pie Chart • Bowling Score by Drunkenness Area Graph

The World Explained in 264 Infographics

Author: Jan Schwochow
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 3791387154
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Take a deep dive into history, economics, art, and culture through fascinating and stunning visuals. We live in a hyper-connected world and are bombarded with news and other information, via our phones, computers, TVs, and radios. People don't have the time or energy to sift through all the data. That's where infographics come in. While the idea of illustrating facts and figures has been around for centuries, it is only recently, with the introduction of the internet, that infographics have really taken off as a medium to convey all types of information. This book shows the versatility of infographics by presenting an amazing compendium of 264 charts. Illustrating topics such as history, economics, sports, music, art, science, and culture, the infographics in this book are all designed to be easy to understand, thought-provoking, and elegant. You can explore the evolution of electric vehicles from a tricycle to a Tesla Model 3, discover how supermarkets trick you into buying more food than you need, and see how much work goes into creating a video game. While you browse the pages, you'll find yourself incidentally learning thousands of new things that will astonish you. By condensing and conveying facts as an illustrated narrative, infographics tell stories that everyone can explore, understand, and enjoy.

Oh, the Places You'll Eff Up

Author: Joshua Miller
Publisher: Ulysses Press
ISBN: 1612432913
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
A HILARIOUS GRADUATION KEEPSAKE THAT GLEEFULLY EXPOSES THE NOT-ALWAYS-AWESOME REALITIES OF STARTING OUT IN THE ADULT WORLD Congrats! Congrats! You've made it so far. You're an adult now, you're even allowed in a bar. But long before you're going to succeed, You'll eff shit up, 100% guaranteed. This ultimate graduation present is sure to bring a nervous smile to the face of any young adult about to face the wide world.

Scientific American Environmental Science for a Changing World

Author: Anne Houtman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429219726
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 579

Book Description
Environmental Science for a Changing World captivates students with real-world stories while exploring the science concepts in context. Engaging stories plus vivid photos and infographics make the content relevant and visually enticing. The result is a text that emphasizes environmental, scientific, and information literacies in a way that engages students.

If the World Were 100 People

Author: Jackie McCann
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593372336
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Help your child become a global citizen with this accessible introduction to the people who live on our planet, with big ideas broken into bite-size chunks through clever graphic design. Perfect for home and classroom settings! With almost 7.8 billion people sharing the earth, it can be a little hard to picture what the human race looks like all together. But if we could shrink the world down to just 100 people, what could we learn about the human race? What would we look like? Where and how would we all be living? This book answers all these questions and more! Reliably sourced and deftly illustrated, If the World Were 100 People is the perfect starting point to understanding our world and becoming a global citizen. If we focus on just 100 people, it's easier to see what we have in common and what makes us unique. Then we can begin to appreciate each other and also ask what things we want to change in our world.

The Best American Infographics 2014

Author: Gareth Cook
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547974558
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Year two of this fresh, timely, beautiful addition to the Best American series, introduced by Nate Silver The rise of infographics across virtually all print and electronic media reveals patterns in our lives and worlds in fresh and surprising ways. As we find ourselves in the era of big data, where information moves faster than ever, infographics provide us with quick, often influential bursts of art and knowledge — to digest, tweet, share, go viral. Best American Infographics 2014 captures the finest examples, from the past year, of this mesmerizing new way of seeing and understanding our world. Guest introducer Nate Silver brings his unparalleled expertise and lively analysis to this visually compelling new volume.

Information is Beautiful

Author: David McCandless
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007294662
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Miscellaneous facts and ideas are interconnected and represented in a visual format, a "visual miscellaneum," which represents "a series of experiments in making information approachable and beautiful" -- from p.007

The Very Hungry Parasite

Author: Aja Mulford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1646043014
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Your time on the toilet will never be the same when the colourful facts and stomach-churning trivia in this illustrated bathroom reader begin to scare the crap right out of you, including: The uniquely powerful diarrhoea of Minnesota; How a common STD can turn you into a disfigured walking tree; The brain-eating amoeba that could be swimming in your pool; How much mucus your body produces; An untreatable disease that creates real-life zombies (with sex addictions); How a sexy fad nearly eradicated an entire species of lice.

The United States of Awesome

Author: Joshua Miller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1612431488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
Discover amazing true facts about US history—from the fun and ridiculous to the surprising and inspiring—in this treasure trove of American trivia. The history of the United States can be great, fun, funny, inspiring, horrifying, and completely ridiculous, if not all of these at once. And there is a daunting amount of it. From the Mayflower landing on Plymouth Rock to Apollo 11’ s touchdown on the moon, it’s been quite a ride. In The United States of Awesome, author Josh Miller attempts to capture the full range of the nation’s awesome history through a dizzying array of fun facts, curious trivia and wacky revelations that are nothing short of awesome. Here are just a few of the facts you’ll discover: • In the midst of the Civil War, 10,000 Confederate soldiers had a snowball fight—Tar Heels vs. Georgians. • Washington’s four dogs were named Drunkard, Taster, Tipler and Tipsy. • The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral lasted just thirty seconds. • The incredibly unlucky son of Abe Lincoln witnessed the assassination deaths of three presidents. • The U.S. refused to pay a $400 littering fine for dropping the space station on Australia. • Ford pardoned not only Nixon but also Robert E. Lee 105 years after Lee’s death. • There is no evidence that Betsy Ross designed the American flag.

The Infographic

Author: Murray Dick
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262043823
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
An exploration of infographics and data visualization as a cultural phenomenon, from eighteenth-century print culture to today's data journalism. Infographics and data visualization are ubiquitous in our everyday media diet, particularly in news—in print newspapers, on television news, and online. It has been argued that infographics are changing what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century—and even that they harmonize uniquely with human cognition. In this first serious exploration of the subject, Murray Dick traces the cultural evolution of the infographic, examining its use in news—and resistance to its use—from eighteenth-century print culture to today's data journalism. He identifies six historical phases of infographics in popular culture: the proto-infographic, the classical, the improving, the commercial, the ideological, and the professional. Dick describes the emergence of infographic forms within a wider history of journalism, culture, and communications, focusing his analysis on the UK. He considers their use in the partisan British journalism of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print media; their later deployment as a vehicle for reform and improvement; their mass-market debut in the twentieth century as a means of explanation (and sometimes propaganda); and their use for both ideological and professional purposes in the post–World War II marketized newspaper culture. Finally, he proposes best practices for news infographics and defends infographics and data visualization against a range of criticism. Dick offers not only a history of how the public has experienced and understood the infographic, but also an account of what data visualization can tell us about the past.