Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 912
EAN: 9780500514252
ISBN: 0500514259
Label: Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: October 27, 2008
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Sales Rank: 13793
Studio: Thames & Hudson

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
366 cartograms cover a vast array of subjects, providing a definitive reference on how regions and countries compare in resources, production, consumption, and more.

Advances in technology have made widespread and detailed data gathering easier, resulting in a deluge of statistics on subjects as diverse as literacy rates, military spending, overweight children, television viewing figures, and endangered species. But how do we represent and compare data from one part of the world to another in a useful way?

Here, sophisticated software combined with comprehensive analysis of every aspect of life represents the world as it really is. Digitally modified maps depict the areas and countries of the world not by their physical size but by their demographic importance on a vast range of topics.

The rainforests of South America, with thirty percent of the world's fresh water, make the continent balloon in an analysis of water resources, whereas Kuwait, dependent on desalinated seawater, disappears from the map. Fuel use, alcohol consumption, population, malaria: here are hundreds of key indicators to the way we live.

This innovative and exceptionally accessible reference work will be an indispensable tool for journalists, economists, marketers, politicians, financiers, environmentalists, and scholars. Its cartograms are augmented by graphs, tables, and full commentaries. 366 color maps.




Rating: - Great gift

This book is a wonderful addition to any library. The graphs are clear and easy to read; giving you tons of information in a neat, concise space.
A sure hit for anyone that loves trivia and likes information on a variety of subjects.

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Rating: - atlas for Christmas
This atlas was a big hit at Christmas. My daughter had asked for it, but all the family enjoyed the takes on mapping.

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Rating: - Points of view
The Atlas of the Real World
I found it fascinating to see the world through different eyes. The author shows how the world really looks with charts, diagrams and maps drawn to new scales.
The Atlas appeals not only to those of a geographical bent but to statisticians and everyman.

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Rating: - Insightful
A very interesting approach to raw data, the maps may be hard to decipher at times but its a fantastic synthetic view of our world and how it works, I began to wish there were more maps on more topics. Origninal way to see how nations invest, how people live what impact policies may have. It highlights unobvious patterns and trends that can then be studied in greater depth. Strongly recommended.

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Rating: - Cartograms - Reality maps
These 391 maps are cartograms - intentional distortions proportional to what is being represented and in relation to every other area. This is valuable because it shows what geography is about, spatial and temporal. Politicians may argue and we may perceive ourselves as "bigger, longer, wealthier, better fed, better educated or lower, longer and poorer." The cartograms show things in proportion.

The US thinks of itself as highly educated, but map 247, "Growth in Secondary Education ... Read More

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