An Answer for Everything : 200 Infographics to Explain the World

The world's most mind-boggling questions, answered through 200 brilliantly clever and addictive infographics.

What's the secret to living past a hundred? What's going on in China? Are we running out of sand? And how many chickens are there?

In An Answer to Everything, 200 of the world's most mind-boggling questions are explained by way of brilliantly clever and addictive infographics. Some will make you giggle, others hit like a sucker punch, and then there are the slow burners, where you can geek out over a data set for hours.

Authored by the team behind Delayed Gratification, the world's best slow journalism magazine, these deeply researched infographics are a compelling and darkly funny way to see the world around us with new eyes.

“Fresh, fascinating, and fun – a visual and verbal treat” —Ian Hislop

“Data just got a lot more fun” —It's Nice That

“Achieves the ultimate factual book goal; makes you cleverer, with minimal effort on your part. You'll learn from it but somehow it makes that pleasurable” —Rachel Parris, The Mash Report

“A fabulous compendium of a thousand new things you didn't know you didn't know. And it looks very nice too” —Andrew Hunter Murray, No Such Thing as a Fish, QI

“Delayed Gratification is one of my favourite magazines, and one of the best things about it is the infographics. They've now published a book of them and it's glorious!” —Alex Bellos