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William J. Mitchell has written 38 work(s)

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Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry

Product Description: poetry with illustration component

By William J. Mitchell

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9780691063485 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 1, 1978, cover price $52.50

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9780691014029 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, March 1, 1983), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: poetry with illustration component

The Language of Images

Product Description: "A remarkably rich and provocative set of essays on the virtually infinite kinds of meanings generated by images in both the verbal and visual arts. Ranging from Michelangelo to Velazquez and Delacroix, from the art of the emblem book to the history of photography and film, The Language of Images offers at once new ways of thinking about the inexhaustibly complex relation between verbal and iconic representation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By William J. Mitchell

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9780226532158 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 1980, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: "A remarkably rich and provocative set of essays on the virtually infinite kinds of meanings generated by images in both the verbal and visual arts.

On Narrative

Essays examine the way stories are told, understood, and used to represent and make sense of the world (view table of contents)

By William J. Mitchell (editor)

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9780226532172 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 1981, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Essays examine the way stories are told, understood, and used to represent and make sense of the world

The Politics of Interpretation

Essays discuss the influence of political viewpoint on literary criticism and legal interpretation

By William J. Mitchell (editor)

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9780226532196 | Univ of Chicago Pr, August 1, 1983, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss the influence of political viewpoint on literary criticism and legal interpretation

Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism

Product Description: "Against Theory," the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This challenge—issued by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels in Critical Inquiry (8:4)—strikes some critics as scandalous, others as provocative and productive...read more

By William J. Mitchell

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9780226532271 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: "Against Theory," the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show.

Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology

Product Description: "[Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language. . . . The most lucid exposition of the subject I have ever read."—Rudolf Arnheim, Times Literary Supplement (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780226532288 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1986, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Discusses the nature of images, examines the connection between images and words, and analyzes the ideological meaning of images

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9780226532295 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, July 15, 1987), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: "[Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language.

The Art of Computer Graphics Programming: A Structured Introduction for Architects and Designers

Looks at plotters, printers, and graphics input devices, introduces graphics programming techniques, and discusses advanced techniques

By Thomas Kvan, Robin S. Liggett and William J. Mitchell

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9780442259914 | Van Nostrand Reinhold, June 1, 1987, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Looks at plotters, printers, and graphics input devices, introduces graphics programming techniques, and discusses advanced techniques

The Poetics of Gardens

Analyzes gardens from around the world, identifies various types, and explains what sets gardens apart from the natural landscape (view table of contents)

By William J. Mitchell, Charles W. Moore and William Turnbull

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9780262132312 | Mit Pr, December 1, 1988, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Analyzes gardens from around the world, identifies various types, and explains what sets gardens apart from the natural landscape

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9780262631532 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, August 13, 1993), cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Analyzes gardens from around the world, identifies various types, and explains what sets gardens apart from the natural landscape

Biology and Biochemistry for Chemists and Chemical Engineers

By William J. Mitchell and J. C. Slaughter

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9780130843289 | Ellis Horwood Ltd, December 1, 1989, cover price $62.00

The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation, and Cognition

Product Description: The Logic of Architecture is the first comprehensive, systematic, and modern treatment of the logical foundations of design thinking. It provides a detailed discussion of languages of architectural form, their specification by means of formal grammars, their interpretation, and their role in structuring design thinking...read more

By William J. Mitchell

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9780262631167 | Mit Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The Logic of Architecture is the first comprehensive, systematic, and modern treatment of the logical foundations of design thinking.

The Electronic Design Studio: Architectural Knowledge and Media in the Computer Era

Product Description: For centuries architects have carried out shape computations by hand, using informal procedures and the simplest of tools. Over the last two decades, however, they have made increasing use of more formal procedures executed by computers, a development that raises challenging questions of architectural theory and perplexing issues for those concerned with the future of architectural education...read more

By International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design future, Malcolm McCullough, William J. Mitchell and Patrick Purcell

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9780262132541 | Mit Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: For centuries architects have carried out shape computations by hand, using informal procedures and the simplest of tools.

Art and the Public Sphere

Product Description: What is the fate of art in an age of publicity? How has the role of traditional public (i.e., government-owned) art changed in contemporary culture, and how have changing conditions of public space and mass communications altered the whole relationship between art and its potential audiences? With contributions from the arts, philosophy, criticism, and the law, the thirteen essays in this volume explore the aesthetic, social, and political dynamics that make contemporary public art so controversial, and that that have placed recent art work at the center of public debates...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By William J. Mitchell (editor)

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9780226532103 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1993, cover price $46.50 | About this edition: What is the fate of art in an age of publicity?

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9780226532110 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: What is the fate of art in an age of publicity?

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.

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)

By William J. Mitchell

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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.

The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era

Product Description: "An intelligent and readable approach to the digitization of images.... A useful overview of a critical subject."-- New York Times Book ReviewEnhanced? Or faked? Today the very idea of photographic veracity is being radically challenged by the emerging technology of digital image manipulation and synthesis: photographs can now be altered at will in ways that are virtually undetectable, and photorealistic synthesized images are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from actual photographs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780262631600 | Mit Pr, July 25, 1992, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: "An intelligent and readable approach to the digitization of images.

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".

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.

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)

By William J. Mitchell

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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.

LA Citta Digitale

By William J. Mitchell

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

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.

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

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?

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

Amazon.com Review: This little book begins with a big claim: the city is dead, and cyberspace killed it. But Mitchell, it turns out, is too intelligent an observer to really mean anything quite so drastic. Despite his weakness for bold, catchy statements (and it is a weakness), this MIT architecture professor has both feet planted in the long and much-studied history of urban spaces, and he draws from it a pragmatic optimism that keeps his argument both hopeful and nuanced...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: Amazon.

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.

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'¬?

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