An Answer for Everything: 200 Infographics to Explain the World

An Answer for Everything: 200 Infographics to Explain the World

Delayed Gratification
$25.00
Publication Date: January 4th, 2022
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN:
9781526633644
Pages:
320
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Description

The world's most mind-boggling questions, answered through 200 brilliantly clever and addictive infographics.

What's the secret to living past a hundred? What's going on in China? Are we running out of sand? And how many chickens are there?

In An Answer for Everything, 200 of the world's most mind-boggling questions are explained by way of brilliantly clever and addictive infographics. Some will make you giggle, others hit like a sucker punch, and then there are the slow burners, where you can geek out over a data set for hours.

Authored by the team behind Delayed Gratification, the world's best slow journalism magazine, these deeply researched infographics are a compelling and darkly funny way to see the world around us with new eyes.

About the Author

Rob Orchard, Christian Tate and Marcus Webb are the co-founders of The Slow Journalism Company, publishers of Delayed Gratification, the world's first magazine dedicated to Slow Journalism. Launched in 2011 as an antidote to a kneejerk news cycle that prioritises speed over depth, detail and context, it has gone on to attract media praise and subscribers from around the globe. Each issue returns to the events of the quarter after the dust has settled to tell the stories the rest of the media has missed – or mistold. Leading an award-winning team of international journalists, editors Rob and Marcus conduct on-the-groundreporting, interview experts and crunch through vast data sets to capture illuminating truths on subjects as varied as the prospects of cold fusion and the politics of the Eurovision song contest.

Praise for An Answer for Everything: 200 Infographics to Explain the World

“The intersection of data and design yields rich, consideration-worthy results-not to mention offering provocative fodder for discussion and debate. The graphics are colorful, witty, and enhance the data presented.” —Booklist

“This book is one of those you want to leave in that place where you always seem to have time to spare, because every page is browse-able. Just dip in here, tuck in over there, and read any one of the page-or-two entries … There's learning going on here but for sure, whatever you read in this book is fun stuff to know for anyone ages 10 to adult.” —Terri Schlichemeyer, The Bookworm Sez

“[An Answer for Everything] is more than a trivia question collection, but more easily accessible than any general-interest information book could be, adding delightful embellishments, color, and whimsical inspections into life questions to invite readers to both learn and enjoy the power of infographics.” —Diane Donovan

“Highly informative and engaging.” —Portland Book Review

“Fresh, fascinating, and fun – a visual and verbal treat” —Ian Hislop

“A chunky, colourful book packed with fascinating facts and figures in infographic form” —Daily Mirror, Books of the Year

“Data just got a lot more fun” —It's Nice That

“Achieves the ultimate factual book goal; makes you cleverer, with minimal effort on your part. You'll learn from it but somehow it makes that pleasurable” —Rachel Parris, The Mash Report

“A fabulous compendium of a thousand new things you didn't know you didn't know. And it looks very nice too” —Andrew Hunter Murray, No Such Thing as a Fish, QI

“Delayed Gratification is one of my favourite magazines, and one of the best things about it is the infographics. They've now published a book of them and it's glorious!” —Alex Bellos