num_pages: 416
description: Advances in technology have made widespread and detailed data gathering easier resulting in a deluge of statistics on subjects as diverse as literacy rates military spending overweight children television viewing figures and endangered species. But how do we represent and compare data from one part of the world to another in a useful way?Here sophisticated software combined with comprehensive analysis of every aspect of life represents the world as it really is. Digitally modified maps depict the areas and countries of the world not by their physical size but by their demographic importance on a vast range of topics.The rainforests of South America with thirty percent of the world's fresh water make the continent balloon in an analysis of water resources whereas Kuwait dependent on desalinated seawater disappears from the map. Fuel use alcohol consumption population malaria: here are hundreds of key indicators to the way we live.This innovative and exceptionally accessible reference work will be an indispensable tool for journalists economists marketers politicians financiers environmentalists and scholars. Its cartograms are augmented by graphs tables and full commentaries.
language: English
title: The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live
publisher: Thames & Hudson