Another excellent reference book by DTV (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag), dtv-Atlas Philosophie (authored and edited by Peter Kunzmann et al) features not only presented texts, excerpts and analyses of world philosophy from ancient India to the late 20th century, for those readers who are more visually inclined (and thus also more concrete and hands-on learners), there are also a plethora of full colour illustrations and diagrams included. And albeit that personally, I actually and in fact do find many (if not even most) of these graphs, diagrams and flow-charts rather distracting and even somewhat potentially confusing (since I just do not generally think in pictures, and while inherently visual, tend to conceptualise and cogitate more in letters and words, being a textual and not a diagrammatic learner), these illustrative inclusions, they are indeed wonderful additional tools for those individuals who reflect, who ponder by means of concrete visual images and thus require formulae and graphs in order to adequately learn. Dense, academic and very informative (and all in a handy, portable paperback), the only drawback with dtv-Atlas Philosophie is that, much like with other DTV atlases, the font size of the text is generally but necessarily quite minuscule (and so much so that I actually have had to read parts of the book with a magnifying glass). However, I do realise that if the font size were much bigger, dtv-Atlas Philosophie would likely not even have been able to be published in such a handy and lightweight format, so the tiny font is really but a rather minor inconvenience. Recommended for students (and really for anyone) interested in philosophy (but with the caveat that a good, and even academic fluency in the German language is both assumed and required).