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"An occasion of wit and an act of subversion, these are the bad dreams of the modern world, given color and shape and submitted to a grid that can be grasped instantaneously."
New York Times
New this month: With 20 percent of species facing extinction by 2030, the third edition of this atlas traces those lost already as well as others threatened and surviving today.
New this month: From the author of the bestselling The State of the World Atlas, here is an essential tool for understanding the Middle East and its pivotal role in global politics -- now completely updated.
Published next month: A completely updated new edition of this eye-opening atlas, charting the status of women worldwide – the advances they have made and the distances still to be travelled.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates holds The Tobacco Atlas during a press conference in New York last July. Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg have launched a $375 million global effort to cut smoking. Until Gates read the atlas and said, ‘Wow, why aren’t we looking at this?’, the Gates Foundation had concentrated on infectious diseases, such as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Lead author of the atlas is Myriad founding director Dr Judith Mackay. Early this year Dr Mackay was awarded an OBE for her international work on tobacco control. In 2007 she was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine.