Books
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Mapping Websites
This booklength survey by Paul Kahn and Krzysztof Lenk, published in English by Rotovision (2001), describes the history of visualizing hypertext and the application of mapping techniques for site maps and planning diagrams in the navigation, analysis, and construction of web sites today.
- Download sample chapter: Web Site Planning Diagrams (174kb | pdf | english)
- Look for Mapping Web Sites on Amazon.com
- Buy Websites visualisieren in German (rororo computer) from amazon
- Architectures de sites web (version français) from Pyramyd is out of print. Download a review of the book (in French) by ErgoLab (174Kb | pdf | french)
- Spanish, Dutch and Korean editions are also available.
Information Design Workbook: Graphic approaches, solutions, and inspiration
A case study of our work on the internet, intranet, and scientific portal websites of INRAP (Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives / National Institute for Research in Preventive Archaeology) is featured in this workbook collection edited by Kim Baer and Jill Vacarra.
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Information Design Source Book
We are proud to be included in this major collection of contemporary information design, edited by Andreas Schneider and others the Institute for Information Design Japan. The book is published in a bi-lingual English-Japanese edition by Graphic-Sha Publishing, Tokyo. Our work with Attoma Design on the Mendel Museum of Genetics in Brno, Czech Republic is featured in the Education/Research/Science section of the book.
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UNDERSTANDING USA
This book, edited by Richard Saul Wurman and published by TED, is "a celebration & a visual demonstration of questions & answers leading to understanding." It is available in three colors: Red, White, or Blue. The chapter on "Global Economics" is by Krzysztof Lenk and Paul Kahn with Ryutaro Sakai.
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From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine
This collection of writing by and about Vannevar Bush, co-edited and authored by James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn, was published by Academic Press in 1991. "Memex, a computer that was never built, was described in 1945 by pioneer computer engineer Bush, and foreshadowed the principles and operations of today's personal computers. Bush's writings about Memex are collected here for the first time, interspersed with essays by historians and computer researchers." (Book News)
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Atlas of Cyberspace
This collection edited by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin, (Harlow, UK: Addison-Wesley, 2001.) is the first major survey of example and techniques for mapping cyberspace, including a large section of examples from Dynamic Diagrams.
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Hypermedia and Literary Studies
This collection edited by George P. Landow and Paul Delany, (MIT Press 1991), contains "Linking Together Books: Experiments in Adapting Published Material into Intermedia Documents," by Paul Kahn describing an experimental hypertext of Chinese poetry in translation created with the Intermedia system at Brown University.