Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1997. FIRST EDITION. Second printing, with revisions. Hardcover. Beige cloth with red spine and cover lettering. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, which has a small sticker-removal scruff. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A clean, tight copy. Oblong quarto, 157 pages including index. Lavishly illustrated throughout with over 100 full-color and black-and-white images, charts, diagrams, and historical engravings. Tufte s third major work on analytical design, featuring extended visual case studies on the 1854 cholera epidemic, 19th-century magic illusions, and the Challenger explosion highlighting how visual miscommunication can have fatal consequences.

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Title: Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Publisher: Graphics Press, Chesire, Conn.
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0961392126
ISBN 13: 9780961392123
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Describes design strategies - the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers - for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause, and effect. Examines the logic of depicting quantitative evidence.

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Tufte is the master of visualization. You can immediately add this new work alongside his previous gems, Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983) and Envisioning Information (1990, both from Graphics). Tufte's discussions take place in a world where specific software and certain parameters of the web don't exist?we all know such limitations are always changing anyway. His historical perspective allows Tufte to demonstrate simple, timeless guidelines that are independent of special stylesheets or the latest upgrade from Netscape. In this volume, Tufte illustrates not only traditional areas such as statistics, repetitions, and multiples but also magic and compositional allegories.
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