US & UK editions are identical except for their covers and publishers. Both use British spellings and metric units.
‘An eye-opening visual look at the assumptions and trends that lie beneath how the modern world ticks . . . Demography and graphic design meet in an extraordinarily revealing book.’
‘If you’re into #dataViz, you *need* to have this one . . . Every page reveals a surprise.’
—Alberto Cairo, author of The Functional Art
‘Fantastic . . . a magical combo of art and graphic gut-punch.’
—Dave Eggers
‘Spectacular & truly Humboldtian.’
—Andrea Wulf, author of The Invention of Nature
‘For centuries, atlases depicted what people could see: roads, rivers, mountains. Today, we need graphics to reveal the invisible patterns that shape our lives. Atlas of the Invisible is an ode to the unseen, to a world of information that cannot be conveyed through text or numbers alone.’
Our reality rests on an invisible world of data, one that grows with nearly everything we do. The traces are all around us.
Transforming enormous datasets into rich maps and visualizations, James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti explore these hidden patterns in human society. With their joyfully inquisitive approach, Cheshire and Uberti investigate happiness levels around the globe, track the undersea cables and cell towers that connect us, examine the concealed scars of geopolitics and illustrate how a warming planet affects everything from hurricanes to the hajj.
Filled with surprising facts and beautifully designed graphics, Atlas of the Invisible invites readers to revel in the secrets of a newly visible world.
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PRAISE FOR WHERE THE ANIMALS GO & LONDON: THE INFORMATION CAPITAL
‘Where the Animals Go is beautiful and thrilling, a combination of the best in science and exposition, and a joy to study cover to cover.’
— Edward O. Wilson
‘BRILLIANTLY COMPELLING . . . A TOUR DE FORCE IN THE MODERN USE OF GRAPHICS TO MAKE A POINT.’
— London Evening Standard
‘THIS BOOK is beautiful as well as informative and inspiring. There is no doubt it will help in our fight to save wildlife and wild habitats.’
— Dr. Jane Goodall
‘A BOOK YOU’ll RETURN TO TIME AND AGAIN, and full of
“WOW, YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS” MOMENTS.’
— Londonist