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Review of the first book to offer a broad, hands-on introduction to information graphics and visualization, the use of charts, maps, diagrams, and illustrations to communicate and understand data and phenomena. Alberto Cairo, who teaches at the University of Miami, explains that visualizations should be conceived as tools that extend human perception, letting go beyond what the bare eye can see, and allow to identify patterns and trends that would be invisible otherwise. Recenzja pierwszej książki będącej tak kompleksowym, a jednocześnie praktycznym wprowadzeniem do grafiki i wizualizacji informacji, korzystania z wykresów, map, schematów i ilustracji do komunikowania się i rozumienia danych i zjawisk. Alberto Cairo, wykładowca na Uniwersytecie w Miami, wyjaśnia, że wizualizacja powinna być pojmowana jako narzędzie, które poszerza percepcję, pozwalając wyjść poza to, co widać gołym okiem, a jednocześnie umożliwiając identyfikację wzorców i trendów, które byłyby niewidoczne w inny sposób.

"The Spaces of Identity" explores the problematic status of identity and some of its postmodern implications. Kosowska discusses the emergence of this notion in the discourse of Western science, its dependence on lingu­istic determinants and its relation to the notion of difference/differance. She identifies the beginnings of contem­porary interest in identity with the development of non-Euclidean geometry and philosophical reflection inspired by Husserl's and Heidegger's phenomenology. Kosowska argues that identity has become a notion which is responsible for constituting beings. Thus it is necessary to pose the question where identity exists. Does it exist in time or in space? Either answer wil leave us with many problems unsolved. However, the category of identity may function as an approximation which signals a postulated and idealised relation dependent on the kind of human perception and cultural principles of classifying phenomena.