Manuel Lima is a Senior UX Design Lead at Microsoft and founder of VisualComplexity.com - A visual exploration on mapping complex networks. He is the author of Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information (Princeton Architectural Press).
"Featuring 200 examples across history, this one-of-a-kind resource
is my round-up's crowning glory." - World of Interiors
"From studying the bible to visualising computer storage, Manuel
Lima's sumptuous The Book of Trees explores the tree diagram's
appeal for showing information." -NewScientist magazine
"Lima's book present us with a pictorial buffet of the sheer
variety of Trees of Knowledge, both in terms of what they can look
like and what information they can convey." - Systematic
Biology
"Nowhere will you find a more comprehensive overview of treemaps
than The Book of Trees by Manuel Lima, professor of data
visualization at Parsons." - Azure Magazine
"Sure to appeal to a diverse group of readers, the book beautifully
combines art and science, as well as ancient and contemporary
worldviews." -Publishers Weekly
"What an amazing and beautiful book! The most important analysis of
visualization since Tufte, The Book of Trees reveals the origins
and evolution of the branches we use to structure knowledge. These
are the cultural and logical foundations crucial to any digital
designer, as well as anyone who wants to be able to think
critically about the visual world." -Douglas Rushkoff, author,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Lima's argument is not only compelling, it is also convincing, for
his visual evidence is powerful." - American Historical Association
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