The Infographic History of the World (Hardcover)

from encephalical

Corny. The writing is corny. The visual metaphors are corny. For too many of the infographics, there were long explanations and ancillary diagrams for how to read them. This arbitrary icon means this, that arbitrary icon means that, this icon represents some arbitrary number of items, like 29 of ...

from themulhern

This should have been really interesting. The commentary really detracted from the diagrams and the diagrams seemed ill-chosen.

from tuckerresearch

A fun, entertaining look at world history through infographics. Infographics are quite popular these days, and looking at history through these data-filled illustrations and graphs reach a whole new audience used to looking at data in such a graphical format. Pretty good coverage and neat through...