Envisioning Information

Trying to avoiding math/computer science books at least for a while, I’ve borrowed from the ultra furnished Georgia Tech Library “Envisioning Information” (Edward Tufte). This book, part of a trilogy, concerns the use of graphical language to represent information (this one in particular regards nouns, the other two are about numbers and verbs respectively).
I’ve found this reading very interesting and pleasing, the examples cited really convinced me for the need of an information representation design (i.e. the steam leaf plots for tram schedules and “1+1=3″ graphical effects). But the book itself it’s the better explanation for Tufte ideas, it’s really easy to read, images are always in the same page of text which are referred by, few pages (around 120) but dense of content. Two sentences from the book I’ve really liked are “Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information” and “God is in the details”.
From the notes of Galileo Galilei regarding sunspots to travel maps, from software interface design to math book (here you can find the simplest and most beautiful proof for Pythagorean theorem ever!), topics touched by this book are many but all important.
Definitively a must to be read (maybe “see” would be more correct!), suggested to everyone.