Ultimate atlas : logbook of spaceship Earth / Theo Deutinger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Surface : Celestial bodies of the solar system ; Celestial bodies of the solar system (sun & others) ; Celestial bodies of the solar system (excluding the sun) ; Earth's surface ; Water versus land ; Oceans ; Continents ; Antarctica ; Countries ; Land use -- Population : Humans ; Female versus males ; Urban versus rural ; Ethnic groups ; Gagauz people ; Languages ; Religion ; Prisoners -- Countries in history : Year 1 (6 known states) ; Year 1000 (27 known states) ; Year 1500 (23 known states) ; Year 1600 (25 known states) ; Year 1700 (26 known states) ; Year 1800 (31 known states) ; Year 1900 (56 known states) ; Year 2019 (203 states) -- Nature : Biomass on Earth ; Elephants ; Primates ; Trees ; Threatened species ; Volcanoes -- Food : Rice ; Chicken ; Apples ; Coffee -- Energy : Energy consumption (per source) ; Wood fuel production ; Crude oil production ; Operable nuclear reactors -- Infrastructure : Railway tracks ; Motor vehicles ; Container shipping ; Ship scrapping ; Airplanes ; Metro lines -- Wealth : Wealth per country ; Wealth patter/Distribution of wealth ; Gold reserves ; Ikea ; Libraries -- Internet : Internet users ; Website content language ; Top-level domain names ; Searches per day ; Wikipedia articles -- Military : Military expenditure ; Arms sales by the top 100 arms-producing companies ; Aircraft carriers ; Nuclear warheads ; Deaths in 20th-century wars ; Killed journalists -- The human body : Vitruvian man ; Human body ; Calorie intake per day ; Composition of air -- Space : Persons in space ; Person days in space ; Operational satellites orbiting Earth ; Landings on extraterrestrial bodies.

With 'Ultimate Atlas', Theo Deutinger - architect, designer, and author of the acclaimed 'Handbook of Tyranny' - illustrates the basic data of Earth and its inhabitants to create a total portrait of the planet. How can we keep track of everything that happens on the Earth? How can we share this information with its inhabitants, despite their different languages and cultural backgrounds? Expanding on the visions of Buckminster Fuller and Stewart Brand, Ultimate Atlas answers these questions by radically levelling graphic data. Breaking down planet earth into 12 sections, the book gives a page spread to information pertaining to themes like ethnic groups, religions, nuclear warheads, and number of motor vehicles per country. The white pages of the book are divided by vertical black lines, in decreasing percentages from left to right. In this way 'Ultimate Atlas' charts the planet with an impressive simplicity and clarity. The territorial size of Earth?s countries; the planet?s most commonly spoken languages; the places where the most chickens are raised; all this information is lucidly displayed for ready comprehension. Here is truly - planet Earth in a book".