Image Science. Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics, Paperback - W. J. T. Mitchell

Image Science gathers Mitchell's most recent essays on media aesthetics, visual culture, and artistic symbolism. The chapters delve into such topic...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): W. J. T. MitchellIllustration(s): 6 line drawingsNumber of pages: 242Publication date: 1987Dim...

Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were...

The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to ...

What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the vis...

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One of the pivotal moments in history relating to the Bible is the departure of the children of Israel from the slavery of Egypt to settle on the P...

Can paintings, buildings or installations be 'read' in the way texts are read or deciphered, or do works of visual art ask for their own kind of ap...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...

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Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Lisa GottoNumber of pages: 268Collection: Digital SocietyPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 224 x 20Cov...

Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media and Culture provides a theoretical and empirical toolkit to examine implications of mediated im...

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Christmas is coming, and so is a killer. Will the psychic psychologist save Christmas and herself?Marnie Reilly is back in Torn Veil, the sequel to...

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With almost 2, 800 entries on all aspects of Hinduism, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive dictionary of its kind. It covers all the majo...

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Both an anthology and an introductory textbook, Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues offers instructors and students a comprehensive anthology...

The Bhagavad Gita is the most widely read Hindu religious text in the Western world and a key work for understanding Indian religions and the way H...

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DescriptionJames T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle, where his ideas on evolution beg...

This splendidly illustrated study by the distinguished Celticist T. W. Rolleston masterfully retells the great Celtic myths and illuminates the wor...

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The Vietnam War is evolving from contemporary memory into history. Fifty years on, it still serves as a benchmark in the history of war reporting a...

Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, ...

In this engaging and readable book, Dr. Korner describes a variety of lively topics that continue to intrigue professional mathematicians. The topi...

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Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): W J RobertsIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 418Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 235 x 40Co...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Cristina Mejia VisperasIllustration(s): 20 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 20...

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Described as "the best MP Scotland never had", Jimmy Reid was undoubtedly of the most important figures of late twentieth-century Britain. Often at...

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Nowadays it is commonplace for apprentice mathematicians to hear 'we shall assume the standard properties of the real numbers' as part of their tra...

Organized around three thematic issues: methodology, epistemological reflection, and theoretical and conceptual exploration. Here, each of these gu...

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This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958–9, formed the foundation for his later Aesthetic Theory, wide...

Two violent deaths shatter a small community. And to solve the case, Wycliffe must untangle a complex network of secrecy within the quiet of Paul's...