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Tennessee facts and symbols
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Kathy Feeney |
Presents information about the state of Tennessee, its nickname, motto, and emblems. |
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The lady & the Virgin
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Penny Schine Gold |
Penny Schine Gold provides a bold analysis of key literary and artistic images of women in the Middle Ages and the relationship between these images and the actual experience of women. She argues tha… |
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Myths and symbols in Indian art and civilization
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Heinrich Robert Zimmer |
This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legend, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an… |
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Connecticut facts and symbols
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Emily McAuliffe |
Presents information about the state of Connecticut and its nickname, motto, and emblems. |
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Symbol and Icon
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Filip Ivanovic |
This book contributes to the study of the notions of symbol and icon by examining two phenomena that greatly contributed to their development: the thought of Dionysius the Areopagite and the iconocla… |
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How ancient Europeans saw the world
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Peter S. Wells |
xviii, 285 p. : 25 cm |
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The Anthropology of experience
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Edward M. Bruner |
"Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the field, explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative… |
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Modern witch's book of symbols
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Sarah Lyddon Morrison |
ix, 174 p. ; 22 cm |
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Minnesota facts and symbols
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Bill McAuliffe |
Presents information about the state of Minnesota, its nickname, motto, and emblems. |
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Virginia facts and symbols
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Bill McAuliffe |
Presents information about the state of Virginia, its nickname, motto, and emblems. |
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Leonardo's incessant Last Supper
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Leo Steinberg |
"A picture universally recognized, endlessly scrutinized and described, incessantly copied, adapted, lampooned: does Leonardo's near-ruined Last Supper still offer anything new to be seen or to be sa… |
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Les Lieux de mémoire
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Pierre Nora |
"Les Lieux de memoire is perhaps one of the most profound historical documents on the history and culture of the French nation. Assembled by Pierre Nora during the Mitterand years, this multivolume s… |
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Worth Dying For
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Tim Marshall |
From the renewed sense of nationalism in China to troubled identities in Europe and the USA, to the terrifying rise of Islamic State, the world is a confusing place right now and we need to understan… |
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Symbols
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Sandra Forty |
A symbol is a graphic sign for a concept or an object. Symbols date back to cave engravings by prehistoric man--the oldest signs found by archaeologists are of fire, water, earth, sun, and wind. The … |
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Myths and symbols in Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan
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Rajesh K. Pallan |
Study of the fictional works of two Indic writers writing in English. |
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Child Art in Context
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Claire Golomb |
"Child Art in Context: A Cultural and Comparative Perspective examines the process of creative expression in child art. More than 100 drawings and sculptures illustrate the genesis and development of… |
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The Great Seal of the United States
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Terri DeGezelle |
Describes the Great Seal, which was designed by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson in 1776, as a symbol of our new nation. |
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Alaska facts and symbols
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Muriel L. Dubois |
Presents information about the state of Alaska, its nickname, motto, and emblems. |
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The bird, the banner, and Uncle Sam
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Elinor Lander Horwitz |
Discusses the patriotic symbols and heroes of the American people and their use in past and present art and craft objects. |
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Le Message des Constructeurs de Cathédrales
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Christian Jacq |
Jacq retoma el tema del mensaje contenido en las representaciones que adornan estas construcciones. Ambos libros perseveran en la teoría planteada por primera vez por Fulcanelli en su libro El mister… |
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