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Atlas of the invisible : maps & graphics that will change how you see the world / James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021Description: 216 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781846149719 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 23 912.075 CHE 023087
Contents:
Introduction -- Where we've been ; Essay: The lives of others -- Who we are ; Essay: Drawing lines -- How we're doing ; Essay: Truth to power -- What we face ; Essay: The search for certainty -- Epilogue.
Summary: "An unprecedented portrait of the hidden patterns in human society--visualized through the world of data. Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In this triumph of visual storytelling, they uncover truths about our past, reveal who we are today, and highlight what we face in the years ahead. With their joyfully inquisitive approach, Cheshire and Uberti explore happiness levels around the globe, trace the undersea cables and cell towers that connect us, examine hidden scars of geopolitics, and illustrate how a warming planet affects everything from hurricanes to the hajj. Years in the making, Atlas of the Invisible invites readers to marvel at the promise and peril of data, and to revel in the secrets and contours of a newly visible world"-- c| Provided by publisher.
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 912.075 CHE 023087 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 023087

"First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Particular Books, an imprint of Penguin Books"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Where we've been ; Essay: The lives of others -- Who we are ; Essay: Drawing lines -- How we're doing ; Essay: Truth to power -- What we face ; Essay: The search for certainty -- Epilogue.

"An unprecedented portrait of the hidden patterns in human society--visualized through the world of data. Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In this triumph of visual storytelling, they uncover truths about our past, reveal who we are today, and highlight what we face in the years ahead. With their joyfully inquisitive approach, Cheshire and Uberti explore happiness levels around the globe, trace the undersea cables and cell towers that connect us, examine hidden scars of geopolitics, and illustrate how a warming planet affects everything from hurricanes to the hajj. Years in the making, Atlas of the Invisible invites readers to marvel at the promise and peril of data, and to revel in the secrets and contours of a newly visible world"-- c| Provided by publisher.

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