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William J. Mitchell has written 38 work(s)

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Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century

Product Description: In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that transformed its outdated, run-down campus into an architectural showplace. Funded by the high-tech boom of the 1990s and and driven by a pent-up demand for new space, MIT's ambitious rebuilding produced five major works of architecture: Kevin Roche's Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, Steven Holl's Simmons Hall, Frank Gehry's Stata Center, Charles Correa's Brain and Cognitive Science Complex, and Fumihiko Maki's still-unrealized project for the Media Laboratory...read more

By William J. Mitchell

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9780262134798 | Mit Pr, April 1, 2007, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that transformed its outdated, run-down campus into an architectural showplace.

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9780262516112 | Mit Pr, February 25, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that transformed its outdated, run-down campus into an architectural showplace.

Code of the Street:: Violent Youths and Gangs

Product Description: For several decades, researchers have studied the race/violence relationship. A number of explanations have been put forth to clarify the forces at play behind this relationship. Elijah Anderson, a professor of sociology currently at Yale University, presents a compelling argument for the high rates of violence among African-American adolescents...read more

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9781617618864, titled "Code of the Street: Violent Youths and Gangs" | Nova Science Pub Inc, January 1, 2011, cover price $137.00 | About this edition: For several decades, researchers have studied the race/violence relationship.

The Codewriting Workbook: Creating Computational Architecture in AutoLISP

Product Description: The Codewriting Workbook introduces students and practitioners to basic programming concepts for computer-aided design (CAD). Through a series of guided exercises and examples, readers learn how to develop and write procedures for creating two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional models using a variety of algorithmic functions...read more

By Robert J. Krawczyk and William J. Mitchell (foreword by)

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9781568987927 | Pap/com edition (Princeton Architectural Pr, December 16, 2008), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The Codewriting Workbook introduces students and practitioners to basic programming concepts for computer-aided design (CAD).

World's Greatest Architect: Making, Meaning, and Network Culture

Product Description: Function and meaning in architecture and elsewhere, from tongue-in-cheek instructions for creating a surveillance state to reflections on the architecture of the potato chip.World's Greatest Architect: Making, Meaning, and Network Culture ...read more

By William J. Mitchell

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9780262633642 | Mit Pr, September 30, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Function and meaning in architecture and elsewhere, from tongue-in-cheek instructions for creating a surveillance state to reflections on the architecture of the potato chip.

Education and Creativity

Product Description: Education and Creativity studies the future of the knowledge and creative economies in our changing world. The education sector will be key to the continued success of the economy, but will need to adapt to significant changes in its demographic mix coupled with higher social expectations...read more

By Simon Foxell and William J. Mitchell

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9781906155100 | Black Dog Pub Ltd, July 29, 2008, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Education and Creativity studies the future of the knowledge and creative economies in our changing world.

The Life and Times of Beethoven

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By Edouard Herriot, Adelheid I. Mitchell (trans) and William J. Mitchell (trans)

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9781430487609 | Kessinger Pub Co, March 30, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Placing Words: Symbols, Space, And the City

Product Description: The meaning of a message, says William Mitchell, depends on the context of its reception. "Shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater produces a dramatically different effect from barking the same word to a squad of soldiers with guns," he observes...read more

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9780262633222 | Mit Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The meaning of a message, says William Mitchell, depends on the context of its reception.

Edward Said: Coninuing The Conversation

Product Description: In Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation, Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they had left off following his death in the fall of 2003.The essays, imagining and recalling the cadences of Said's conversation, take various forms, including elaborations on his ideas, applications of his thought to new problems, and recollections of the indescribable electricity that made conversation with him intense and memorable...read more

By Homi K. Bhabha, William J. Mitchell (editor) and Edward W. Said (editor)

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9780226532011 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 2005, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation, Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they had left off following his death in the fall of 2003.

Edward Said: Continuing The Conversation

By Homi K. Bhabha (editor), William J. Mitchell (editor) and Edward W. Said (editor)

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9780226532035 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation, Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they had left off following his death in the fall of 2003.

What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives And Loves Of Images

Product Description: 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 alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray?According to W...read more

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9780226532455 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 15, 2005, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life?

Collaborative Design and Learning: Competence Building for Innovation

Product Description: In today's knowledge-driven economy, the ability to share insight and know-how is essential for driving innovation and growth. In this groundbreaking volume, scholars from around the world demonstrate how communication and information technologies are enabling dynamic project design and management practices that challenge traditional concepts of time, space and behavior...read more

By Joao Bento (editor), Jose P. Duarte (editor), Manuel V. Heitor (editor) and William J. Mitchell (editor)

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9781567205459 | Praeger Pub Text, November 30, 2004, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: In today's knowledge-driven economy, the ability to share insight and know-how is essential for driving innovation and growth.

Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City

Product Description: With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi--the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception...read more

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9780262134347 | Mit Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The author of City of Bits and e-topia finishes his trilogy with a survey of the 'cybernetic' consequences of Internet and wireless technology, exploring the ways in which modern technology is extending the human body and mind.

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9780262633130 | Mit Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life.

Beyond Productivity: Information, Technology, Innovation, and Creativity

Product Description: Computer science has drawn from and contributed to many disciplines and practices since it emerged as a field in the middle of the 20th century. Those interactions, in turn, have contributed to the evolution of information technology - new forms of computing and communications, and new applications - that continue to develop from the creative interactions between computer science and other fields...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Marjory S. Blumenthal (editor), Alan S. Inouye (editor) and William J. Mitchell (editor)

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9780309088688 | Natl Academy Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Computer science has drawn from and contributed to many disciplines and practices since it emerged as a field in the middle of the 20th century.

Hassle-Free Business Travel: Strategis for Navigating the New World of Travel

Product Description: Hassle-free travel-isn'¬?t that an oxymoron? Not with business-travel veteran William J. Mitchell at your side. In HASSLE-FREE BUSINESS TRAVEL Mitchell shares countless lessons he's had to learn the hard way-before September 11 and since...read more

By William J. Mitchell

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9781580083430 | Ten Speed Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Hassle-free travel-isn'¬?

Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory

Product Description: In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela...read more

By William J. Mitchell (foreword by) and Cary Wolfe

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9780226905136 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $62.50 | About this edition: In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela.

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9780226905143 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela.

Landscape and Power

Product Description: The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identities...read more

By William J. Mitchell (editor)

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9780226532066 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $42.50

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9780226532059 | 2 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identities.

E-Topia: "Urban Life, Jim-But Not As We Know It"

Product Description: The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television. It is a whole new urban infrastructure--one that will change the forms of our cities as dramatically as railroads, highways, electric power supply, and telephone networks did in the past...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780262133555 | Mit Pr, September 17, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A unique, insightful study of the effects of the internet on urban architecture predicts major changes in telecommunication infrastructure, highways, corporate buildings, and personal dwellings in the near future.

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9780262632058, titled "E-Topia: Urban Life, Jim-But Not As We Know It" | Mit Pr, August 28, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television.

High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology

Product Description: How will low-income communities be affected by the waves of social, economic, political, and cultural change that surround the new information technologies? How can we influence the outcome? This action-oriented book identifies the key issues, explores the evidence, and suggests some answers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By William J. Mitchell (editor), Bishwapriya Sanyal (editor) and Donald A. Schon (editor)

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9780262691994 | Mit Pr, October 16, 1998, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: How will low-income communities be affected by the waves of social, economic, political, and cultural change that surround the new information technologies?

The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon

Illustrated with forty-eight color plates and scores of black-and-white pictures, an entertaining study examines the enduring appeal of dinosaurs to the human imagination, the many different images of dinosaurs in popular culture, and their symbolic meaning and uses. UP. (view table of contents)

By William J. Mitchell

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9780226532042 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Examines the enduring appeal of dinosaurs to the human imagination, the many different images of dinosaurs in popular culture, and their symbolic meaning and uses

Internal Medicine

Product Description: This new series assists students at all levels in developing their clinical problem-solving or reasoning skills by leading them through the 'clinical reasoning process around common presenting complaints' in the various clinical rotations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By William J. Mitchell

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9781889325071 | Fence Creek Pub, October 1, 1998, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: This new series assists students at all levels in developing their clinical problem-solving or reasoning skills by leading them through the 'clinical reasoning process around common presenting complaints' in the various clinical rotations.

LA Citta Digitale

By William J. Mitchell

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9788843560233 | Art Books Intl Ltd, October 1, 1997, cover price $39.95

City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn

Product Description: Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits is a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, an increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the information superhighway...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780262133098 | Mit Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Examines the impact of the digital telecommunication revolution, the miniaturization of electronics, and the growing importance of software on architecture and the human environment

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9780262631761 | Mit Pr, August 1, 1996, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits is a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, an increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the information superhighway.

Picture Theory/Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

Product Description: 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 visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in the study of culture? This book by one of America's leading theorists of visual representation offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass media...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780226532318 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: What precisely, W.

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9780226532325, titled "Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation" | 2 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: What precisely, W.

Digital Design Media

Product Description: In Digital Design Media, Second Edition, architects and related design professionals will find a complete conceptual guide to the multidimensional world of computer-aided design. In contrast to the many books that describe how to use particular programs (and which therefore go out of date very quickly), Digital Design Media constructs a lasting theoretical framework, which will make it easier to understand a great number of programs--existing and future--as a whole...read more

By William J. Mitchell

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9780442019341 | 2nd edition (Van Nostrand Reinhold, April 1, 1995), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In Digital Design Media, Second Edition, architects and related design professionals will find a complete conceptual guide to the multidimensional world of computer-aided design.

Fine Structure and Iteration Trees

Product Description: This monograph lays the foundations for the theory of canonical inner models of set theory which are large enough to satisfy the statement "There is a Woodin cardinal". It does so by combining Jensen's fine structure models, already useful in the study of smaller inner models, with the theory of iteration trees and Woodin cardinals developed recently by Martin and Steel...read more

By William J. Mitchell and John R. Steel

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9780387574943 | Springer Verlag, October 1, 1994, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: This monograph lays the foundations for the theory of canonical inner models of set theory which are large enough to satisfy the statement "There is a Woodin cardinal".

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