New Views: The World Mapped Like Never Before: 50 maps of our physical, cultural and political world

Very interesting book

excellent

This is a beautifully produced, high-quality book, I purchased as a present and will be getting a copy for my own coffee table as I enjoyed flicking through so much! The maps are amazing and set over the full spread - really graphic and clear. We all sat around after my friend had opened it pointing and remarking on the maps; favourites were undersea cables (who knew!), peacefulness (another reason to move to NZ), and steroid strikes (pretty map!).

This book is stunning. Saw it advertised on the Daily Mail and it's lived up to my expectations. The maps are all about relevant topics and current affairs e.g. Which country is the happiest? Which is the most peaceful? and they're beautifully designed which makes it a really great coffee table book.Each map is also accompanied by an essay which is the perfect amount of writing to get you thinking about the subject without being overwhelming, and Alastair Bonnett is really able to make the complicated accessible. Overall, a great book!

Incredibly informative book and the maps are stunning. This was a brilliant find.

I was looking for a present for my father and loved the name of this one. He loved it so much I ended up getting it for all the men in my family for Christmas - can't wait to see what they will think of it. The book is made of 50 amazing maps that look at the world in ways we never do, asking questions we wouldn't think about - so you discover fun, curious facts, learn about the world and your own country too. Its easy and interesting to read, and it is especially BEAUTIFUL! super nice coffee table book that you will keep on going back to!

The visual representation of data is an exciting and fascinating field, and we've come a long way from simple bar graphs and Venn diagrams. This book focuses on issues of global consequence, and does so by presenting fifty world maps, each drawn to illustrate a set of facts, observations, principles or data regarding a single topic.Roughly organized among "Land, Air and Sea", "Human and Animal", and "Globalization", the topics range from distribution of ocean garbage to gasoline prices, to patterns of emigration, to religious diversity, to the world nut trade. The point of each map, of course, is to emphasize global connectedness as much as to provide information, and in this it succeeds remarkably well. There is much to consider here; it is a visual treat and a change of perspective for those of us who enjoy pouring over lists and collections of factoids.Each map is accompanied by a narrative section that identifies the source of the data and that draws the reader's attention to highlights and connections of note. The maps vary, as one might expect, in what you might call "confidence" or "hardness". A map of, say, asteroid strikes or global distribution of fast food franchises is based on hard observational data. A map of "vulnerability to natural disasters" takes into account attitudes toward emergency preparedness and the robustness of infrastructure and emergency planning, and is much more subjective. So, some of these maps have to be viewed with some reserve.That said, it never hurts to know as much as you can about home, and this is home writ large. There is much to see here, and much to suggest further inquiry and investigation. This was an intriguing and worthy find. (Check out "Pangea Ultima", a geoprediction of the future of continental drift, and another one - an eye opening map of undersea communications cables.)(Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)

Bought after the rave reviews was highly disappointed upon reading. I'd say miss it.

Delivered as promised.Large coffee table style high quality book.Fascinating explanation of use of maps to display info and data. Interesting for the info itself, but even more intriguing for the many ways maps an be used to display info.Will probably look at other books by Professor Bonnett

I keep this atlas out where I can focus on a new page whenever i have some extra time. It induces wonde and fascination.

Very nice book of maps showing world stats, the only problem was that the images are split along the left and right page, and the split happens right through Europe, which has the highest density of little countries, so you miss a lot

Sehr allgemein und nützliches Buch. Wirklich sehr informativ für Leute die sich mit Karten und Räumen auseinandersetzen.Vom Inhalt finde ich es wirklich sehr toll.Leider kam es mit Knicken und Dellen an...... was dann nicht mehr so schön aussieht wenn man es verschenkt. Das fand ich leider wirklich sehr schade. Scheint aber ein allgemeines Buchproblem zu sein.....habe das Problem leider öfter wenn ich Bücher online kaufe :/ daher für mich nur 3 Sterne. Inhalt dafür TOP !!!!