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Author | : Michael Evamy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Leading his readers on a voyage through the visual shorthand of modern life, the author argues that we are relying less on words for navigating the world than on images and graphic devices. This sourcebook shows the attempts of designers to condense words and data down to their simplest equivalents. It illustrates the familiar, the peculiar and the confusing visual language that we are asked to interpret (symbols, graphs and charts, maps) mixed up with the more graphic examples of data storage and identification that are read not by humans but by machines (barcodes, magnetic strips, holograms). Featuring airport signs, road markings, pictograms, maps, diagrams, packaging, logos and symbols, this compendium of visuals shows not only the norms of wordless graphic communication but also how these vary around the world when interpreted by local individuals for different cultures
Author | : Susan Schaller |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2014-05-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520959310 |
For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student, encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been sent as an interpreter and where he sat isolated, since he knew no sign language. She found him obviously intelligent and sharply observant but unable to communicate, and she felt compelled to bring him to a comprehension of words. The book vividly conveys the challenge, the frustrations, and the exhilaration of opening the mind of a congenitally deaf person to the concept of language. This second edition includes a new chapter and afterword.
Author | : Gerald Shea |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-02-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0306821931 |
At age 34, Shea discovered that he had been deaf since childhood despite somehow maintaining a prestigious legal career.
Author | : José Luis Bermúdez |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0195341600 |
First Oxford University Press pbk edition.
Author | : David Goode |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2010-06-18 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1439905797 |
Exploring communication with children born deaf-blind.
Author | : Avi, |
Publisher | : Hyperion |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780786816590 |
Having tried for years to unlock the secrets of the magical Book Without Words, old man Thorston dies in failure and the book is passed on to his servant, Sybil, and her magical raven who eagerly begin the process of breaking the code.
Author | : Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡ |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781426201738 |
In a first-ever publishing event, the remarkable photography and writings of Countess Sophia Tolstoy reveal the unfolding of her life with her famous husband--and evocatively portray a glittering world that soon would fade away. 120 photographs.
Author | : Philip Glass |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2015-04-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1631490818 |
New York Times Bestseller An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Chicago Tribune Literary Award Finalist for the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing "Reads the way Mr. Glass's compositions sound at their best: propulsive, with a surreptitious emotional undertow." —Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet in Words Without Music, his critically acclaimed memoir, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a born storyteller and an acutely insightful chronicler, whose behind-the-scenes recollections allow readers to experience those moments of creative fusion when life so magically merged with art. From his childhood in Baltimore to his student days in Chicago and at Juilliard, to his first journey to Paris and a life-changing trip to India, Glass movingly recalls his early mentors, while reconstructing the places that helped shape his creative consciousness. Whether describing working as an unlicensed plumber in gritty 1970s New York or composing Satyagraha, Glass breaks across genres and re-creates, here in words, the thrill that results from artistic creation. Words Without Music ultimately affirms the power of music to change the world.
Author | : Ruth Belov Gross |
Publisher | : Scholastic |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Body language |
ISBN | : 9780590438971 |
Describes sign language and other ways that people communicate without words.
Author | : Ellen O'Connell |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-10-05 |
Genre | : Man-woman relationships |
ISBN | : 9781502731241 |
Bounty hunter Bret Sterling kills Rufus Petty, thief and murderer, less than ten feet away from a frightened, half-starved woman. Rufus should have surrendered. The woman should have kin to help her. But Rufus went down shooting, and the woman has no one. Bret figures by the time he finds a safe place to leave Hassie Petty, he'll earn the five hundred dollar reward several times over. Hassie doesn't mourn Rufus, but the loss of the ten dollars he promised her for supplies is a different matter. The bounty hunter gives her nothing, takes everything, ties the body on one horse and orders her on another. Afraid if she defies him, he'll tie her down tighter than Rufus, Hassie mounts up and follows the icy-eyed killer. Mismatched in every way, the sterling man and petty woman travel the West together, hunting thieves, deserters, and murderers. Wary traveling companions, friends and partners, lovers, Bret and Hassie must decide what they want, what they need, and the price they're willing to pay for love.