R help - Jan 2011 - OT: Reprinting of Bertin's Semiology of Graphics

Aficionados of graphics may be interested to know that the English 
translation (1984) of Jacques Bertin's
Semiology of Graphics has been reprinted by ESRI.

http://www.amazon.com/Semiology-Graphics-Diagrams-Networks-Maps/dp/0299090604
new edition:
http://www.amazon.com/Semiology-Graphics-Diagrams-Networks-Maps/dp/1589482611/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0

The long out-of-print 1984 edition sells for $380, but the new printing 
is a bargain at ~$49.
It is all the more remarkable in that most of the diagrams and graphs 
were drawn by hand,
yet show a palette of graphical techniques richer than our graphical 
software provides
even today.

best,
-Michael

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York University      Voice: 416 736-5115 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814
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This is a major publishing event for statistical graphics.  I have long
possessed Bertin's shorter book Graphics and Graphic Information Processing
but Semiology is the one I've been waiting for.  Thanks for the good news
Michael!

Frank

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Frank Harrell
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
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