“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” | Albert Einstein. Information Graphics ($47) looks at how the most complex of ideas can be communicated through. Our everyday lives are packed with a continuous huge flow of information in order than we interpret and are therefore able to understand the world we are living in today. When you consider the complex array of data that is floating around us visual communication is often the best, or sometimes the only way of communicating. This is a unique book that presents us with a historical and fascinating perspective on this subject, and highlights the vital role graphics play in modern society.
Quite simply, The Big Butt Book ($40) is a book of butts. There is something about butts, bums, tushies, derrieres, that we simply can’t get enough of. The Karma Sutra told us how to spank them, Italians touch them for luck before placing bets, and Americans are having them cosmetically enhanced at an alarming rate. […]