What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images, Paperback - W. J. T. Mitchell

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 phrase 'War on Terror' has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is har...

Reducere. The intimate story of a unique marriage spanning the heights of British glamour and power that descends into infidelity, manipulation, and disaster...

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

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

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...

Reducere. "Enthralling . . . Here we find an ugly, walleyed existentialist philosopher, the elegantly beautiful author of The Second Sex and the Gallic equiv...

The captivating and contradictory author of The Railway Children is revealed in stylistic, romantic and political depth in this biography from the ...

In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond t...

A provocative and timely examination of the royal family's role in contemporary Britain, covering their finances and constitutional role.

From their beginnings as teenagers experimenting in a San Fernando Valley garage dubbed "The Hell Hole" to headlining major music festivals around ...

Fitzsimons's eye-opening biography brings new light to the life and works of famed literary icon E. Nesbit, in whom pragmatism and idealism, tradit...

The tumultuous life of internationally renowned opera singer, and one of the first global celebrities, Dame Nellie Melba.Publisher: Atlantic BooksA...

DescriptionFrom docking to surviving storm waves, everything you need to know before you hit the water Using hundreds of illustrations and photos, ...

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'I defy anyone not to snort, howl and recoil' The Sunday Times'Full of wicked asides, tart observations and sharp remarks that could only have orig...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Here is unfolded the fascinating history and development of the Tarot, from its fifteenth-century beginnings as a conjunct to playing cards, to the...

Reducere. Have you noticed that sometimes what you need just falls into place? Perhaps you've met the perfect client or life partner merely by being at the r...

The truth behind Freddie Mercury's complex romantic relationships.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Lesley-Ann JonesNumber of pages: 320Publi...

Reducere. The truth behind Freddie Mercury's complex romantic relationships.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Lesley-Ann JonesNumber of pages: 320Publi...

Reducere. Improve Your Communication Skills, Influence, and PersuasivenessHave you spent most of your life watching the people around you overtake you and al...

Reducere. Improve Your Communication Skills, Influence, and PersuasivenessHave you spent most of your life watching the people around you overtake you and al...

Lucy, Lady Houston's extraordinary life is revealed here in full for the first time

Reducere. Meet "creative misbehavior" with an equally creative response An unusual, touching approach to understanding the perceptions and feelings of childr...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this book St. John's Revelation is approached as a great and singular theological poem. The author tries to see how the poem arose in...

Even bad dreams have secrets.Around the corner awaits a new set of shadows, demons, and nightmares. From T.J. Tranchell, author of CRY DOWN DARK an...

Reducere. The Magic of Getting What You Want is an excellent treatise on the subject of dealing with people. Dr. Schwartz writes in a manner which is direct ...

Lucy, Lady Houston's extraordinary life is revealed here in full for the first timePublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Teresa CromptonIllust...

Reducere. Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Mo...

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Learning words is fun with this hardboard book loaded with recognizable pictures. For curious explorers ages 2 years and up. Look around you . . . ...

Reducere. Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" this book's many stories-some funny, others intensely movi...

At some point, we resign ourselves to living by the scripts and rhythms established by other people. Perhaps it's a parent. Maybe it's a pastor or ...

The modern relationship is in crisis. Why? In this pioneering work, Susie Orbach and Luise Eichenbaum pinpoint the deceptively simply question that...

Reducere. Tired of Trying to Win Approval and Escape Rejection? Peer pressure, codependency, shame, low self-esteem these are just some of the words used to ...