See the whole teaser on book's site, which is quite nice and minimal.

Image from the New York Times info-graphic: Luge Crash at the Olympics

[T]he precision with which this graphic schematizes the death of a man is unsettling.

This past Friday, Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed during a training run for the Winter Olympics. Saturday, the New York Times produced this visualization of the circumstances which lead to his death on the track.

I was struck by the experience -- a man reduced to an abstraction, a projectile -- which one manipulates towards the last frame: a photograph showing the moment of his fatal collision. I found the juxtaposition, and my participation in it, troubling.