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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 | : 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 | : 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.
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Publisher | : Sander Schroevers |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9079646113 |
Explores the use of communicative gestures from a cross-cultural perspective. Providing you with a comprehensive introduction, and focusing on key areas in the theory and practice of how professionals signal their attitudes internationally.
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 | : 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 | : 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 | : 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 | : 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 | : Romana Lefevre |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2011-10-21 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1452110174 |
With this illustrated guide, discover what hand gestures can offend others around the world—and whether you avoid making them or not is up to you. A hand gesture is arguably the most effective form of expression, whether you’re defaming a friend’s mother or telling a perfect stranger to get lost. Learn how to go beyond just flipping the bird with this illustrated guide to rude hand gestures all around the world, from asking for sex in the Middle East to calling someone crazy in Italy. Detailed photographs of hand models and subtle tips for proper usage make Rude Hand Gestures of the World the perfect companion for globe-trotters looking to offend. “If you’ve resolved to make the most of your travels, a copy of Rude Hand Gestures of the World to know what gestures you should avoid while abroad. Better safe than sorry!” —Buzzfeed