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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: MapMapPublisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First American editionDescription: 1 atlas (216 pages) : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cmContent type:
  • cartographic image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393651515
  • 0393651517
  • 0393651533
  • 9780393651539
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Winner of the 2021 Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography awarded by the American Association of Geographers

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.

Winner of the 2021 British Cartographic Society Awards including the Stanfords Award for Printed Mapping and the John C. Bartholomew Award for Thematic Mapping.

"First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Particular Books, an imprint of Penguin Books"--Title page 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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