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In the era of big data, where information moves faster than ever, infographics provide us with quick, often influential bursts of art and knowledge on the environment, politics, social issues, health, sports, arts and culture, and more to digest, to tweet, to share, to go viral. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Infographics\u003c\/i\u003e captures the finest examples from the past year, including the ten best interactive infographics, of this mesmerizing new way of seeing and understanding our world. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49562886013201,"sku":"CIN0547973373G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49648698753297,"sku":"GOR006006584","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50195267027217,"sku":"CIN0547973373A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52491198791953,"sku":"CIN0547973373VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0547973373.jpg?v=1751073249"},{"product_id":"best-american-infographics-book-gareth-cook-9780544542709","title":"The Best American Infographics","description":"Praise for The Best American Infographics \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \"Represent[s] the full spectrum of the genre--from authoritative to playful.\"--Scientific American\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Not only is it a thing of beauty, it's also a good read, with thoughtful explanations of each winning graphic.\"--Nature\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \"Information, in its raw form, can overwhelm us. Finding the visual form of data can simplify this deluge into pearls of understanding.\" --Kim Rees, Periscopic\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  The most creative and effective data visualizations from the past year, edited by Brain Pickings creator Maria Popova\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The rise of infographics across nearly all print and electronic media--from a graphic illuminating the tweets of the women of Isis to a memorable depiction of the national geography of beer--reveals patterns in our lives and the world in often startling ways. The Best American Infographics 2015 showcases visualizations from the worlds of politics, social issues, health, sports, arts and culture, and more. From an elegant graphic comparison of first sentences in classic novels to a startling illustration of the world's deadliest animals, \"You'll come away with more than your share of . . . mind-bending moments--and a wide-ranging view of what infographics can do\" (Harvard Business Review).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This is what information design does at its best - it gives pause, makes visible the unsuspected yet significant invisibilia of life, and by astonishing us into mobilization, it catapults us toward one of the greatest feats of human courage: the act of changing one's mind.\"--from the Introduction by Maria Popova\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Guest introducer MARIA POPOVA is the one-woman curation machine behind Brain Pickings, a cross-disciplinary blog showcasing content that makes people smarter. She has more than half a million monthly readers and over 480,000 Twitter followers. Popova is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow and has written for the New York Times, Atlantic, Wired UK, GOOD Magazine, The Huffington Post, and the Nieman Journalism Lab.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Series editor GARETH COOK is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a contributor to the New York Times Magazine, and the editor of Mind Matters, Scientific American's neuroscience blog.  He helped invent the Boston Globe's Sunday Ideas section and served as its editor from 2007 to 2011. His work has also appeared in NewYorker.com, WIRED, Scientific American, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49583305163025,"sku":"GOR008919117","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50206989025553,"sku":"CIN0544542703A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50700070748433,"sku":"CIN0544542703VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52104392245521,"sku":"CIN0544542703G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0544542703.jpg?v=1750815741"},{"product_id":"best-american-infographics-book-gareth-cook-9780544556386","title":"The Best American Infographics","description":"\"When it comes to infographics...the best work in this field grabs those eyes, keeps them glued, and the grip is sensual--and often immediate. A good graphic says 'See what I see!' and either you do or you don't. The best ones...pull you right in, and won't let you go.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  --From the introduction by Robert Krulwich\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The year's most \"awesome\" (RedOrbit) infographics reveal aspects of our world in often startling ways--from a haunting graphic mapping the journey of 15,790 slave ships over 315 years, to a yearlong data drawing project on postcards that records and cements a trans-Atlantic friendship. The Best American Infographics 2016 covers the realms of social issues, health, sports, arts and culture, and politics--including crisp visual data on the likely Democratic\/Republican leanings of an array of professions (proving that your urologist is far more likely to be a Republican than your pediatrician). Here once again are the most innovative print and electronic infographics--\"the full spectrum of the genre--from authoritative to playful\" (Scientific American).   \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT KRULWICH is the cohost of Radiolab and a science correspondent for NPR. He writes, draws, and cartoons at Curiously Krulwich, where he synthesizes scientific concepts into colorful, one-of-a-kind blog posts. He has won several Emmy awards for his work on television, and has been called \"the most inventive network reporter in television\" by TV Guide.    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49620875411729,"sku":"GOR010872931","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50185136505105,"sku":"CIN0544556380G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50354698813713,"sku":"CIN0544556380A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51100487319825,"sku":"CIN0544556380VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0544556380.jpg?v=1751198106"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-gareth-cook.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}