Graduate Design Seminar        Computers as Theatre4 reviews Brenda Laurel Addison-Wesley Professional, 1993 Aristotle's Poetics applied to software design + Putting dramatic structure on the user interface + Perhaps this should be called the "Tao of Software Design" + Good ideas, but I felt the book lacked a clear focus.             The Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox2 reviews Kenji Ekuan The MIT Press, 2000 Essays on the root of Japanese Aesthetic Thought Kenji Ekuan's book suffers from a title which inadequately expresses its content. He uses a brief examination of the lunchbox--its contents, history, and organizing principles--to ask what the larger aesthetic principles are of a society which holds this item as an ideal. Among the topics he ...             A Grammar of Motives3 reviews Kenneth Burke University of California Press, 1969 Kenenth Burke lays out the Dramatistic Pentad + A Grammar of Motives + Grammar Means Lexicon "A Grammar of Motives" was published in 1945 as the first volume in a proposed trilogy "On Human Relations" that was never completed; the second volume "A Rhetoric of Motives" was published and their are several pretenders for the third volume, but "A Symbolic of Motives" was never written. ...             In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon Ivan Illich University Of Chicago Press, 1996 In a work with profound implications for the electronic age, Ivan Illich explores how revolutions in technology affect the way we read and understand text. Examining the Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor, Illich celebrates the culture of the book from the twelfth century to the present. Hugh's work, at once an encyclopedia and guide to the art of reading, reveals a twelfth-century revolution ...             Changing Context of Information: An Introductory Analysis Kevin J. McGarry Clive Bingley, 1981 An examination of the importance of the social and cultural context in analysing the meaning and relevance of information for the individual and society. It explores the interaction between communications technology, human information processing, the representation of information and the attendant problems of storage and transmission. The social implications of knowledge engineering are also ...             Selected Writings of Richard McKeon: Volume One: Philosophy, Science, and Culture1 review Richard Peter McKeon University Of Chicago Press, 1998 Stretch your mind, enlarge your world.... First, self-disclosure: I'm not a philosopher. For over 25 years, I've been a counselor & psychotherapist. Ten years before that, I was a conductor & musicologist. I'm also a husband, father, grandfather, and a passionate believer in citizenship. For all the problems, confusions, ...             Democracy And Education15 reviews John Dewey Free Press, 1997 This book was... + worthy content, bad presentation + Warning deep thinking ahead + A must read for anyone in the education field + A milestone             Art as Experience5 reviews John Dewey Perigee Trade, 2005 this book is kickin! + Fundamental book on esthetics + Overly Detailed but Insightful + Excellent Theorizing On Art + One of the great books on art theory.             Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method3 reviews Herbert Blumer University of California Press, 1986 Informative + Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method + An essential book for sociologists/social scientists Meaningful communication occurs in context. In fact the context frames the message. Blumer describes how factors such as relationships and interpretation construct meaning. Relationships have histories. Meanings change as relationships mature. If one is to understand interpretation, one must be ...             The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society (Da Capo Paperback)5 reviews Norbert Wiener Da Capo Press, 1988 intriguing ideas made plain + important and relevant after half a century + A concerned and conscienscious genius + Another Wiener Gem + prophetic book             Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies3 reviews University Of Chicago Press, 1995 Food for thought on design. + re-discover design! + Food for thought on design. Design is a topic of social, cultural, and philosophical investigation. This book presents several essays by many contemporary philosophers of design, with a good mix between highly academic rhetoric and slightly more informal writings. Not light reading, but highly enlightening.             The Idea of Design3 reviews The MIT Press, 1996 Important Literature + A complex read I know that designers sometimes would like to have a 1 minute answer, because design is still seen in the most cases as a practical discipline. But this book, even now a few years old, was one of the first important design readers which had been focused on the future,.. and theories, models are ...             Paul Rand: A Designer`s Art6 reviews Paul Rand Yale University Press, 2000 Paul Rand: A Designer's Must Have + Great examples but lacking the depth I hoped for. + A Designer's Inspiration + NON LIKE ANY OTHER             John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1953 : 1938/Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, Vol. 12 John Dewey Southern Illinois University Press, 1991 Heralded as “the crowning work of a great career,” Logic: The Theory of Inquiry was widely reviewed. To Evander Bradley McGilvary, the work assured De­wey “a place among the world’s great logicians.” William Gruen thought “No treatise on logic ever written has had as direct and vital an impact on social life as Dewey’s will have.” Paul ...             The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts1 review Richard A. Lanham University Of Chicago Press, 1995 thoughtful and elegant He describes the transformation of idea and language in the electronic age with grace and wit and joy. For everyone of us who has greeted the information age with something less than wholehearted enthusiasm, I recommend Lanham's deeply thoughtful, elegant philosophy.             The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life10 reviews Erving Goffman Anchor, 1959 A sociological classic + What happens when you appear in front of others + A justifiable classic - though not without its flaws + The Arts of Impression Management             The Sciences of the Artificial - 3rd Edition5 reviews Herbert A. Simon The MIT Press, 1996 Philosophical, interdisciplinary perspectives of human being + Incredibly thought provoking and original... + Comprehensive philosophical view on thinking and computing Explores economics, management, computer science, psychology and phylosophy to understand human being and artifacts, the work of human being. Ideas presented are highly philosophical but widely applicable to the real world, especially when designing organization or large projects.             The Craft of Research, 2nd edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)43 reviews Wayne C. Booth, Joseph M. Williams, ... University Of Chicago Press, 2003 A Must Have! + Useful Resource for Research Papers + Powerful tool for novice + Decent book + Craft of Research             Learning How to Learn5 reviews Joseph D. Novak, D. Bob Gowin Cambridge University Press, 1984 5 *'s for researchers, 4 *'s for everyone else + Learning how to learn + A Model for Learning + Two powerful tools that aid learning! + excellent description of concept mapping             City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch2 reviews Kevin Lynch The MIT Press, 1995 Cities are human! + Lynch's researches and projects brilliantly organized This is THE BOOK for anyone -not exclusively urban planners- who wants to understand not only the physical form of the city, but how its citizens interact with the urban landscape. Through his experience and observation, Lynch reminds us that the most important component of a city -the reason why ...              Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen beauty: Erno Laszlo Multi-Phase Concealer Shade 0 we recommend A Must Have! leave a comment home  impressum - about us