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Brilliant maps for curious minds: 100 new ways to see the world
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New York : The Experiment, 2019.
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xiii, 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm.
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Which countries don’t have rivers? Which ones have North Korean embassies? Who drives on the “wrong” side of the road? How many national economies are bigger than California’s? And where can you still find lions in the wild? You’ll learn answers to these questions and many more in this atlas of 100 infographic maps that reveal something surprising about our world. This one-of-a-kind atlas is packed with eye-opening analysis (Which nations have had female leaders?), whimsical insight (Where can’t you find a McDonald’s?), and surprising connections that illuminate the contours of culture, history, and politics. Each of these 100 maps will change the way you see the world—and your place in it.

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Wright, I. (2019). Brilliant maps for curious minds: 100 new ways to see the world. New York, The Experiment.

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Wright, Ian. 2019. Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World. New York, The Experiment.

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Wright, Ian, Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World. New York, The Experiment, 2019.

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Wright, Ian. Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World. New York, The Experiment, 2019.

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5050 |a Introduction -- 1. PEOPLE AND POPULATIONS: 1. European countries overlaid on areas of the Americas with equal populations -- 2. US states overlaid on areas of Europe with equal populations -- 3. How the North American population fits into Europe -- 4. The astounding drop in global fertility rates from 1970 to 2015 -- 5. More than half of the Australian population lives here -- 6. 50% of Canadians live south of the red line -- 7. Countries with the largest immigrant populations -- 8. Second largest nationality living in each European country -- 9. Percentage of people born in each European country now living abroad -- 10. Countries and overseas territories that each have smaller populations than Greater Tokyo -- 11. World median ages -- 12. Average female height worldwide -- 13. Average male height worldwide -- 2. POPULATIONS, POWER, AND RELIGION: 14. 64 countries have had a female leader in the last 50 years -- 15. Countries with state religions -- 16. Fastest-growing religion in each country around the world -- 17. Simplified map of Africa's religions -- 18. England vs. Great Britian vs United Kingdom -- 19. Birthplace of religious leaders -- 20. Every country's highest-valued export -- 21. The largest source of imports by country -- 22. Countries with economies bigger than California's -- 23. World gold reserves in grams per person -- 24. World divided in half based on military spending -- 25. Nuclear vs. non-nuclear countries -- 3. CULTURE AND CUSTOMS: 26. Who are the world's speed demons? The highest speed limits around the world -- 27. Who drives on the "wrong" side of the road? -- 28. Football vs. soccer -- 29. Most commonly spoken languages after English and Spanish -- 30. Maps of countries officially not using the metric system -- 31. Decimal point vs. decimal comma vs. other decimal separators -- 32. How to write the date in different counties -- 33. Election days by country -- 34. Countries that have no McDonald's -- 35. Cats vs. dogs -- 36. The most photographed places in the world -- 37. Heavy metal bands per 100K people -- 38. Countries with the most Miss World winners -- 39. Longest place names -- 40. Most recurring word on each country's English Wikipedia page -- 41. Age of consent for heterosexual sex -- 42. Male circumcision: one thing that unites the United States and the Middle East -- 43. World plug and socket map -- 4. FRIENDS AND ENEMIES: 44. Open borders of the world -- 45. Who Americans consider their allies, friends, and enemies -- 46. Countries the US is obligated to go to war for (for now) -- 47. 22 countries that the UK has not invaded -- 48. Countries that were raided or settled by Vikings -- 49. European countries that have invaded Poland -- 50. Zone Rouge -- 51. Countries that officially recognize the state of Palestine -- 52. Countries that officially recognize the state of Israel -- 53. Where North Korea has embassies -- 54. Who has embassies in North Korea? -- 55. Former and current communist countries -- 5. GEOGRAPHY: 56. Mercator projection vs. the true size of countries -- 57. Chile is a ridiculously long country -- 58. The true size of Africa -- 59. The Pacific Ocean is larger than all the land on Earth -- 60. The 20 largest islands in the world compared -- 61. The Pan-American Highway: the longest road in the world -- 62. More people live inside this circle than outside of it -- 63. Antipodes world map -or why you can't dig a hole to China from the US -- 64. The world in a mirror -- 65. The world's time zones -- 66. World's five longest domestic nonstop flights -- 67. Travel times from London in 1914 -- 68. Travel times from London in 2016 -- 69. Luxembourg is not a microstate! - 70. All roads lead to Rome -- 6. HISTORY: 71. European map of the unexplored world (1881) -- 72. Colonial Africa on the eve of World War I -- 73. Map of the entire internet in December 1969 -- 74. If the Roman Empire reunited -using modern borders -- 75. The first proposed map of Pakistan and the partition of India -- 76. If the Mongol Empire reunited -- 77. When Great Britain was connected to continental Europe -- 78. Where were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? -- 79. WWI casualties as a percentage of prewar populations -- 80. WWII casualties as a percentage of prewar populations -- 81. Countries that lost citizens on 9/11 -- 7. NATIONAL IDENTITY: 82. Colors of passports around th world -- 83. Countries who flags contain red and/or blue -- 84. Flags of the world -- 85. If European borders were drawn by DNA instead of ethnicity -- 86. "Indian" isn't a language -- 87. What do we mean when we say "Asian"? -- 8. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: 88. The US has as many murders annually as all the counties in blue combined -- 89. Homicide rates: Europe vs. the US -- 90. Number of executions since 1976 in the US -- 91. Capital punishment laws of the world -- 92. Prison population per 100K people -- 93. Every recorded terrorist attack between 1970 and 2015 -- 9. NATURE: 94. Countries with no rivers -- 95. Countries with the most venomous animals -- 96. Historic vs. present geographical distribution of lions (Panthera leo) -- 97. How many Americans believe that climate change will affect them? -- 98. All the sharks killed by humans vs. all the humans killed by sharks in 2017 -- 99. Probability of a white Christmas -- 100. Average annual hours of sunlight in the US and in Europe -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- About the author.
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"Originally published in the UK by Granta Books in 2019 under the title Brilliant maps."
Description
Which countries don’t have rivers? Which ones have North Korean embassies? Who drives on the “wrong” side of the road? How many national economies are bigger than California’s? And where can you still find lions in the wild? You’ll learn answers to these questions and many more in this atlas of 100 infographic maps that reveal something surprising about our world. This one-of-a-kind atlas is packed with eye-opening analysis (Which nations have had female leaders?), whimsical insight (Where can’t you find a McDonald’s?), and surprising connections that illuminate the contours of culture, history, and politics. Each of these 100 maps will change the way you see the world—and your place in it.