Author: David Diaz
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Keywords: tracking, signs, science, humans, art, systematic, man, hope, approach
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1592286860
ISBN-13: 9781592286867
Tracking--Signs of Man, Signs of Hope is a complete guide to tracking and finding humans, alive and dead: lost children and adults, crime victims, escaped criminals.
Author: The Worldwatch Institute
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: vital, signs, future, trends, shaping
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-09-17
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0393331296
ISBN-13: 9780393331295
The award-winning Worldwatch Institute reveals the often overlooked key trends that tell the true health of our planet. This annual volume distills the "vital signs" of our times—which often escape the attention of the media, world leaders, and economic experts—from thousands of government, industrial, and scientific documents. It tracks the major indicators that show social, economic, and environmental progress, or the lack thereof. Vital Signs 2007-2008 presents the latest data on environmental and sustainable development topics, such
Author: Department for Transport
Publisher: Stationery Office Books
Keywords: traffic, signs, temporary, works, situations, design, road, safety, manual, chapter, eight, measures
Number of Pages: 317
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0115527389
ISBN-13: 9780115527388
Author: Grey Gundaker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: signs, diaspora, center, studies, american, culture, commonwealth, african, literacies, creolization, vernacular, practice, america
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-07-30
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0195107691
ISBN-13: 9780195107692
Challenging monolithic approaches to culture and literacy, this book looks at the roots of African-American reading and writing from the perspective of vernacular activities and creolization. It shows that African-Americans, while readily mastering the conventions and canons of Euro-America, also drew on knowledge of their own to make an oppositional repertoire of signs and meanings. Distinct from conventional script literacy on the one hand, and oral culture on the other, these "creolized" vernacular practices include writing in charms, use of personal or nondecodable scripts, the strategic r
Author: Cath Senker
Publisher: PowerKids Press
Keywords: stories, symbols, signs, religious, hinduism
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-09
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 1435830385
ISBN-13: 9781435830387
World religions all have their own distinct symbols and signs. This series shows children what signs and symbols are and why they are used in religion. Children learn about each religion and its symbols through looking at the key themes of Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Hinduism. Each book is packed full of lively stories, folktales, songs, poems, recipes and activities.
Author: Cath Senker
Publisher: PowerKids Press
Keywords: stories, symbols, signs, religious, islam
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-09
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 1435830407
ISBN-13: 9781435830400
Author: Marshall Blonsky
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: signs
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 1985-08-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0801830079
ISBN-13: 9780801830075
"Blonsky has grouped numerous original and newly translated works by those who have been highly visible forces in semiotic circles... His book functions as a unified voice proclaiming the power of semiotics to reveal the hidden practices and secrets of modern society." -- Journal of Communication.Contributors include Roland Barthes, Michel de Certeau, Jacques Derrida, Edmundo Desnoes, Umberto Eco, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Thomas A. Sebeok, and others.
