Library Journal Best Reference 2014 "The authors have put as much effort into the design as the data and their book is meant to entertain as much as to inform." -- The Economist The first edition of The Infographic History of the World was released only in 2013 but the World clearly has changed since then.
The book\'s design cleverly mirrors the content, opening with parchment-like paper stock and primitive typography, progressing to glossy pages, minimalist design and color..
Four sections -- In the Beginning, Getting Civilized, Nation Building, and The Modern World -- present World History as a visual essay of facts, trends and timelines. 8 billion years.
Seventy-five topics and more than 100 infographics cover the entirety of the world\'s lifespan of 13.
New infographics lay out the numbers and geographic movement of refugees, migrants and displaced peoples around the globe, showing where they originate and where they land.
This edition of The Infographic History of the World is updated to reflect this profound change in the human fabric.
Since 2008, close to 175 million people living in developing countries have been displaced by geophysical or weather-related disasters.
Climate change is also forcing migration.
If this were the population of a country, it would be the world\'s 24th biggest.
Globally, one in every 122 humans is now either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum. 5 million people had been forced to flee as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations.
By year\'s end, a staggering 59.
At least 15 major conflicts erupted in 2014, resulting in the displacement of millions of individuals on virtually every continent.
The movement of millions of people around the globe, including the mass exodus of four million Syrian refugees, has altered almost every country on the globe.
Library Journal Best Reference 2014 "The authors have put as much effort into the design as the data and their book is meant to entertain as much as to inform." -- The Economist The first edition of The Infographic History of the World was released only in 2013 but the World clearly has changed since then
