The bestselling classic has been revised and updated! A colorful guide to the world's most consequential trivia, Visual Miscellaneum by David McCandless is a reference book like no other. It now includes 18 all new graphs and 23 updated ones. It helps us make sense of our world by putting the data we are bombarded with every day -- health findings, technological advances, cultural touch points, war statistics -- into creative visual perspective. Like Show Me How by Lauren Smith and Schott's Miscellany, only more complete and satisfying, Visual Miscellaneum is a treat for the mind and the eye. Using cutting edge graphs, charts, and illustrations, author David McCandless creatively visualizes the world's most surprising relationships and compelling data. - Publisher.

"The bestselling classic, revised & reimagined" - cover.

Pop. Billion-dollar-o-gram -- International number ones -- Books everyone should read -- The "in" colours -- The "interesting" colours -- Simple part I -- 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. The one machine -- What does China censor online? -- Google insights -- Looking for love online -- Articles of war -- Fast Internet -- 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 -- 2012 : the end of the world? -- Being defensive -- Enneagram -- Nature. Small carbon -- Which fish are okay to eat? -- Stock check -- Amazon -- Carbon conscious -- Rising sea levels -- Water towers -- The carbon dioxide cycle -- Kyoto targets -- 30 years makes a difference -- Big carbon -- Amphibian extinction rates -- Science. Creation myths -- The book of you -- The book of me -- Personal computer evolution -- Low resolution -- Climate skeptics vs. the consensus -- Nature vs. nurture -- Scale of devastation -- Radiation dosage -- The future of energy -- The future of the future -- Health. Snake oil? -- Drugs world -- The sunscreen smokescreen -- 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 -- The buzz vs. the bulge -- Daily diets -- Calories in, calories out -- Power. Who runs the world? -- Who really runs the world? -- Behind every great man -- War chests -- Peters projection -- The Middle East -- The Middle East : some context -- Life. Reduce your chances -- 20th century death -- Death spiral -- The varieties of romantic relationship -- Motive, timing and delivery -- Man's humanity to man -- Film. Time lines -- 22 stories -- Most profitable stories 2007 -- Most profitable stories 2008 -- Most profitable stories 2009 -- Most profitable stories 2010 -- Most profitable stories 2011 -- Most profitable stories of all time -- Media. Mountains out of molehills -- X "is the new" black -- Horoscoped -- Types of information visualization -- Music. Dance genre-ology -- Rock genre-ology -- Most successful rock bands.