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If ever there were a book to make you feel bad about your PowerPoint skills and ability to create tables and graphs in Excel, this is it. Manuel Lima, working within the limitations of graphical representations based upon trees, nevertheless presents a panoply of images spanning nearly three millennia, though the focus is from on 1000 AD to present. During that time, trees - or things more or less recognizable as trees - have been used to trace genealogies, chronologies, taxonomies, and belief systems of all types, and Lima presents examples of all these manifold uses. The text itself is dry, and frankly I thought the descriptions of each diagram could have been a little more in-depth, but the images are clearly the draw here, and draw you they will. I admit that my interest flagged a bit toward the end, as the "trees" became less and less representative and more and more likely to deal with the inner workings of a computer, but by then my mind was so blown by the ability of good design to represent various types of data that the less-interesting bits gave me time to process everything I'd seen. A feast for the eyes and mind alike.
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I bought it for the great historical documents. The modern knowledge trees are interesting and pretty, but I like the old stuff better and hoped there would have been more of that.
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This is an incredibly beautiful book. I've been spellbound. If you purchase only one book this year, it should be this one. Follow the tree charts, and they will take you to places you've never imagined. Do make sure you have some time for it, else you'll be frustrated... ;-)
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