This brief book about specific case offers little in the way of grand theories and too few examples for readers to deduce their own. ( )

"This inexpensive booklet reprints, in full color, chapter 2 of Visual Explanations , analyzing a cholera epidemic in London in 1854 and the evidence used to decide to launch the space shuttle Challenger. Topics include cause and effect, data errors and credibility, evidence selection, and statistical graphics. For teaching data analysis and evidence in decision-making."