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The visual miscellaneum : = a colorful guide to the world's most consequential trivia /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The visual miscellaneum :/ David McCandless.
Reminder of title:	a colorful guide to the world's most consequential trivia /
Author:	McCandless, David.
Published:	New York :Collins Design, : c2009.,
Description:	255 p. :col. ill., col. maps, charts ; : 26 cm.;
Subject:	Questions and answers. -
ISBN:	9780061748363 (cloth) :

The visual miscellaneum : = a colorful guide to the world's most consequential trivia /
McCandless, David.

The visual miscellaneum :a colorful guide to the world's most consequential trivia /David McCandless. - New York :Collins Design,c2009. - 255 p. :col. ill., col. maps, charts ;26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Pop : Billion-dollar-o-gram ; Books everyone should read ; The 'in' colours ; The 'interesting' colours ; Simple part I ; International number ones ; Better than Bacon ; Who clever are you? Types of facial hair ; Good news ; Immortality ; Red vs blue ; Simple part II ; Most popular US girls' names ; Most popular US boys' names -- Web : Looking for love online ; The one machine ; Internet virals ; YouTubes ; Google insights ; The great firewall of China ; Articles of war ; Virtual kingdoms ; Avatars ; Fast internet ; The clouds ; Selling your soul -- Thought : Left vs. right ; Three's a magic number ; What is consciousness? ; Colours and culture ; Stages of you ; World religions ; Moral matrix ; Postmodernism ; Being defensive ; Enneagram -- Nature : Tons of carbon ; Which fish are okay to eat? ; Stock check ; 30 years makes a difference ; Carbon conscious ; Rising sea levels ; The carbon dioxide cycle ; Extinct ; Kyoto targets ; 30 years makes a difference II ; Tons of carbon II ; Water towers ; Amphilbian extinction rates ; Bee limit warning -- Science : Creationism vs evolutionism ; Creation myths ; The book of you ; The book of me ; Personal computer evolution ; Low resolution ; Climate sceptics vs the consensus ; Nature vs nuture ; The future of energy ; the future of the future -- Health : Snake oil? ; The remedy ; What are the chances? ; Some things you can't avoid ; Body by ; Microbes most dangerous ; Cosmetic ingredients ; Things that'll give you cancer ; Alternative medicine -- Food : Taste buds ; The poison ; The remedy ; Salad dressings ; Not nice ; Pass the ... ; Types of coffee ; Daily diets ; Calories in, calories out ; Vintage years ; Feeding frenzy -- Power : Who runs the world? ; Who really runs the world? ; Behind every great man ; Peter's projection ; The Middle East ; The Middle East: some context -- Life : 20th century death ; Dangers of death ; Varieties of romantic relationships ; Motive, timing and delivery ; Man's humanity to man -- Film : Timelines ; 22 stories ; Most profitable stories 2007 ; Most profitable stories 2008 ; Most profitable stories ever -- Media : Mountains out of molehills ; X is the new black ; In 25 words or less ; Types of information viz ; The media jungle -- Music : Dance genre-ology ; Rock genre-ology ; Most successful rock bands.

Brings to life the world and its issues, using graphs, charts and illustrations for everything from sushi ingredients to mixed martial arts, celebrity marriage to Afghanistan, and video-game sales to how long condiments take to spoil.

ISBN: 9780061748363 (cloth) :NT808Subjects--Topical Terms:

633166
Questions and answers.

LC Class. No.: AG195 / .M33 2009

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