If you’re an infographic nerd, then you’re going to get a kick out of this new book called Snapshot: The Visual Almanac For Our World Today (Mitchell Beazley/Octopus Publishing Group). The book is packed with various charts, graphs, and visual statistics broken down into 6 main categories — the environment, society, the state, finance and commerce, technology, and culture.
Within these 6 categories are 50 topics with data taken from many reputable sources. This data is then analyzed and broken down into clear and concise graphics allowing you to see and keep track of trends over time. The wealth of knowledge present in this book span way beyond its 200 pages and it’s lots of fun going from page to page and learning so much about the world in such a short amount of time. And because Snapshot is split so intelligently into its categories, the book serves as wonderful resource for reference for people of any age.
Want to know how the majority of the world’s freight gets from one place to another? Or maybe you want to know which country has the highest tax on alcohol, or which country has no McDonald’s, or which country produces the most movies per year. The answers may surprise you and you’ll be able to find them all in Snapshot in a manner which will make you want to sit and continue flipping through its pages rather than simply looking for the answers online.
Snapshot: The Visual Almanac for Our World Today
