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The visual miscellaneum : a colorful guide to the world's most consequential trivia

Title
The visual miscellaneum : a colorful guide to the world's most consequential trivia / David McCandless.
ISBN
9780061748363
0061748366
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Published
New York : Collins Design, c2009.
Physical Description
255 p. : col. ill., col. maps, charts ; 25 cm
Local Notes
Winterhouse Design and Visual Culture Collection -- AOB copy.
Summary
Brings to life the world and its issues, using graphs, charts and illustrations for everything from sushi ingredients to mixed martial arts, celebrity marriage to Afghanistan, and video-game sales to how long condiments take to spoil.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 20, 2013
Bibliography
Includes index.
Contents
Pop : BIllion-dollar-o-gram ; Books everyone should read ; The 'in' colours ; The 'interesting' colours ; SImple part I ; International number ones ; 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 : Looking for love online ; The one machine ; Internet virals ; YouTubes ; Google insights ; The great firewall of China ; Articles of war ; Virtual kingdoms ; Avatars ; Fast internet ; The clouds ; 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 ; Being defensive ; Enneagram
Nature : Tons of carbon ; Which fish are okay to eat? ; Stock check ; 30 years makes a difference ; Carbon conscious ; Rising sea levels ; The carbon dioxide cycle ; Extinct ; Kyoto targets ; 30 years makes a difference II ; Tons of carbon II ; Amphilbian extinction rates ; Bee limit warning
Science : Creationism vx. evolutionism ; Creation myths ; The book of you ; The book of me ; Personal computer evolution ; Low resolution ; Climate sceptics vs the consensus ; Nature vs nuture ; The future of energy ; the future of the future
Health : Snake oil? ; The remedy ; Wat are athe 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 ; Daily diets ; Calories in, calories out ; Vintage years ; Feeding frenzy
Power : Who runs the world? ; Who really runs the world? ; Behind every great man ; Peter's projection ; The Middle East ; The Middle East: some context
Life : 20th century death ; Dangers of death ; Varieties of romantic relationships ; Motive, timing and delivery ; Man's humanity to man
Film : Timelines ; 22 stories ; Most profitable stories 2007 ; Most profitable stories 2008 ; Most profitable stories ever
Media : Mountains out of molehills ; X is the new black ; In 25 words or less ; Types of information viz ; The media jungle
Music : Dance genre-ology ; Rock genre-ology ; Most successful rock bands.
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