Collection Development Selection (for map lovers)

The book is titled An Atlas of the Real World. According to amazon, it has an 10/27/2008 publication date.

Here's an example.
Forest Depletion: The size of each territory indicates the annual rate of depletion of forests, measured in terms of US dollar value at current prices.

Excerpt: Put together by the people behind worldmapper.org, a new reference book features 366 digitally modified maps (known as cartograms) that depict the world demographically. The maps cover a wide range of different topics, from population, health and productivity to poverty, warfare and crime.

Link to July 10, 2008, Creative View blog post for additional examples.