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

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.