The Telling Image: The Changing Balance Between Pictures and Words in a Technological Age

ISBN-13: 9780198583394 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 210 str.

Duncan Davies

Recenzje

'This book is crammed with valuable information, sensible argument and is well written. It deserves a place in everybody's reference library.' Les Free, Media Information Australia, No. 67, February 1993

Spis treści

The communications scene; The history of words, numbers, and pictures as records; Words, numbers, and pictures in childhood; Words, numbers, and pictures: sorting and indexing; Pictures and words in engineering, physics, and chemistry; Pictures and words in biology and medicine; Pictures and words in everyday life and study; The way ahead: the future of pictures; Appendix: Jack Meadows: Recent work on computer graphics; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Davies: deceased. Was General Manager, Research ICI, then Chief Scientist & Engineer, Department of Industry. D. & R. Bathhurst: both retired