Rethinking Hypermedia: The Microcosm Approach is essentially the story of the Microcosm hypermedia research and development project that started in the late 1980's and from which has emerged a philosophy that re-examines the whole concept of hypermedia and its role in the evolution of multimedia information systems. The book presents the complete story of Microcosm to date. It sets the development of Microcosm in the context of the history of the subject from which it evolved, as well as the developments in the wider world of technology over the last two decades including personal...

In the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, on assignment
for "Fortune" magazine, went to central Alabama to document the lives of three white
sharecropper families. Agee's editors killed the article, and after a torturous five-year
struggle to do artistic justice to the material, the author finally published it in book form
as "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," only to see it sink with barely a ripple. The posthumous
revival of Agee's literary fortunes led to the work's reissue in 1960, its adoption as an unofficial
bible by civil rights...