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

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

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. J. T

Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (Mitchell W. J. T.)(Paperback)

'[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

Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation (Mitchell W. J. T.)(Paperback)

Live Loud, Love Loud (Word J. Iron)(Paperback)

Given Your human is what you call me and your human is what I always want to be. human on the other end of the line, the human beside you, the human there on the good days and the bad, the human you call home. Your human is what you call me and your human is what I always want to be. Not

Landscape and Power, Second Edition (Mitchell W. J. T.)(Paperback)

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. This second

The Jacobite Grandson (Lovat T. J.)(Paperback)

The Jacobite Grandson, sequel to Son of a Jacobite, traces the later life of Thomas Lovat and the childhood-into-adulthood of his son, Edward. Thomas and Edward travel to Persia, so recapturing some of the profound influence that Shiite Islam had on Thomas's identity and development. Edward joins

The Lives of Images, Vol. 1: Repetition, Reproduction, and Circulation (Wolukau-Wanambwa Stanley)(Paperback)

The Lives of Images, edited by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, is a set of contemporary thematic readers designed for educators, students, practicing photographers, and others interested in the ways images function within a wide set of cultural practices. The series tracks the many movements and 'lives'

Across the River and Into the Trees (Hemingway Ernest)(Paperback)

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber! A poignant tale of a revitalizing love that is found too late--the fleeting connection between an Italian countess and an injured American colonel inspires light and hope, while only darkness lies ahead. In the fall of 1948, Ernest

Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell George)(Paperback / softback)

'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.' Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell's final novel, was completed in difficult conditions shortly before his early death. It is one of the most influential and widely-read novels of the post-war period,

The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Lewis C. S.)(Paperback)

The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later years as 'the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their

Intelligent Image and Video Compression: Communicating Pictures (Bull David R.)(Paperback)

Intelligent Image and Video Compression: Communicating Pictures, Second Edition explains the requirements, analysis, design and application of a modern video coding system. It draws on the authors' extensive academic and professional experience in this field to deliver a text that is

Love, Sex and Philosophy (Woods Travis J.)(Paperback)

Love, sex and philosophy are three words that encapsulate the human experience. What they represent is so central to our existence, yet we overlook the power and wonder involved when consciously engaging with these interests. As such, we neglect our beauty and misunderstand what we are. The book is

Daddy Cool (Goines Donald)(Paperback)

A multifaceted, realistic fictional picture of the lives, choices, and frustrations of underworld ghetto blacks.Larry Jackson, better known as Daddy Cool, is a ruthlessly efficient black hit man, equally effective with a gun or a knife in nailing his prey. The only thing that can melt his icy heart

Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past (Riggs Ransom)(Paperback)

With the candid quirkiness of Awkward Family Photos and the confessional intimacy of PostSecret, Ransom Riggs's Talking Pictures is a haunting collection of antique found photographs--with evocative inscriptions that bring these lost personal moments to life--from the author of the New York Times

The Archaeology of Rock-Art (Chippindale Christopher)(Paperback)

Rock art--prehistoric pictures--gives us lively and captivating images of animals and people painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces. It is all too easy to guess at the meanings the images carry. This pioneering set of essays instead explores how we can reliably learn from rock art as

Pictures of Lily (Toon Paige)(Paperback)

What happens when the one you love is not the one you're with? The Sunday Times bestselling author of The Sun in Her Eyes and Thirteen Weddings wonders whether we can ever forget the one that got away in her 'absorbing and emotional narrative' (Heat) about romance and reconciliation. 'Will you

Going to the Volcano (Stanton Andy)(Paperback)

Buckle up and jump on board for the funniest, most EXPLOSIVE picture book of the year - you'll want to read it again and again-o! Join two intrepid explorers as they take a train-o, jump on a plane-o, ride a Great Dane-o (down the lane-o) on their way to look at the volcano. Nothing could possibly

Critical Terms for Media Studies (Mitchell W. J. T.)(Paperback)

Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at times, redefines, what this new and hybrid

Sensible Life: A Micro-Ontology of the Image (Coccia Emanuele)(Paperback)

We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, or smell the world around us. But sensibility is not just a faculty: We are sensible objects both to ourselves and to others, and our life is through and through a

Lighthouse (Parker Tony)(Paperback)

I want to marry a lighthouse keeper. And live by the side of the sea. So says the old song, but Parker's 1975 portrait of a handful of these men and their families shows it to be a hard and solitary existence. A vocation more than simply a profession.'--Library

The Stature of Waiting (Vanstone W. H.)(Paperback)

We set great store by activity and busy-ness. We want to be 'in control'. We value what we 'do' more than who we are. So when we become ill, or retire from work, or suffer an enforced period of inactivity, our self-esteem is threatened. This classic of spiritual writing transforms our understanding

Constructing the World (Chalmers David J.)(Paperback)

David J. Chalmers constructs a highly ambitious and original picture of the world, from a few basic elements. He develops and extends Rudolf Carnap's attempt to do the same in Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt (1928). Carnap gave a blueprint for describing the entire world using a limited vocabulary, so

Delighting in God (Tozer A. W.)(Paperback)

A.W. Tozer's Follow-up to The Knowledge of the HolyWe were created in the image of God, and to understand who we are, we need to understand who God is. His very character and nature are reflected through us. Unless we fully grasp who we are, we'll never become all God wants us to be.Delighting in

For the Love of God Marie! (Sarson Jade)(Paperback)

For the Love of God, Marie! tackles themes of sexism, body image, gender identity, racism, faith (and doubting it), family and the importance of educating people about sex and their bodies, and shows, with Sarson's exuberant art and trademark lightness of touch, how attitudes have changed over the