New England's Rarities Discovered

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New England's Rarities Discovered
John Josselyn
Manufacturer: Massachusetts Historical Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0934909121

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New England's Rarities Discovered By John Josselyn Transactions and Collections of The American Antiquarian Society Volume IV
S.F.Haven Edward E.Hale Charles Deane
Manufacturer: Archaeologia Americana
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000KBNMHW

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New-England's rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country
John Josselyn
Manufacturer: W. Veazie
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006AGT40

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Josselyn [family: The English ancestry of John Josselyn, the traveller and author of "New-Englands rarities discovered" ... of his brother, Henry Josselyn ... Josselyn ... followed by a pedigree ... ]
Elizabeth French
Manufacturer: s.n
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00089UY6S

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First Impressions Great -- Follow-up to come after the Walk.......2007-03-09

Great background book on the Via de la plata, but the real litmus test for me will come after my husband walks the Via during April 2007 and verifies what is current and what is out of date.

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Christopher Columbus Comes to Indiana!: Includes Reproducible Activities for Kids! (Carole Marsh Indiana)
Carole Marsh
Manufacturer: Gallopade Intl
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0793336627

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This book encourages students to take a fresh look at the encounters between Native Americans and European settlers in Indiana. In sections like Germ Warfare, A Momentous Miscalculation and more, students learn that history is something to be explored and discovered, not simply memorized. If you want to show students how history can change with the times, this book is a real eye-opener. Use it to instill critical thinking skills - kids must learn to read between the lines of history if they are to understand it. Math problems, writing activities, discussion questions and Columbus trivia make this book a whole new world of learning! Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book. Makes a great supplement to Native American/Indian studies.

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Christopher Columbus comes to Indiana
Carole Marsh
Manufacturer: Gallopade Publishing Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Recently there has been intense research activity on the subject of wavelet/subband theory and application. Experts in such diverse fields as mathematics, physics, electrical engineering and image processing have provided original and pioneering works and results. But this diversity, while rich and productive, has lead to a sense of fragmentation, especially to those new to the field, and nonspecialists, trying to understand the connections between the different aspects of wavelet and subband theory.

The book is designed to present an understanding of wavelets and their development from a continuous-domain transformation to a frame representation and finally to multiresolution analysis tools such as subband decomposition. The book presents a theoretical understanding of the subject that is intertwined with practical examples and practical applications of wavelets in ultrasonic and biomedical applications. There is special emphasis on applications in communications and compression as well as image processing.

Topics and Features:

* Provides an understanding of the link between continuous wavelet transform, the fast wavelet transform and subband decomposition.

* Algorithms and numerical examples are implemented in Matlab.

* The design of wavelet bases, and how to implement the transform both in hardware and software is discussed in detail.

* Covers the fundamentals and the developments of the links between areas such as time-frequency analysis, digital signal processing, image processing and Fourier and wavelet transform, both continuous and discrete.

Extended mathematical treatment and numerous examples, with particular emphasis to the transition from the continuous domain to multiresolution and subband. The book is an essential text/reference for graduates, researchers, and professionals in electrical engineering, communications engineering and computer engineering. Practitioners and professionals engaged in signal processing, wavelets and Fourier analysis will find the book a useful resource and comprehensive guide.

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Great Book for understanding Wavelets!.......2006-02-05

Simply the excellent book currently available in Market to understand Wavelets. Enjoy reading this book!

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Why is it that certain members of the human species routinely put their survival at risk by smoking cigarettes? Why is it that some females make walking a struggle for themselves by donning high heel footwear? This book attempts to answer such questions. Such risky behaviors are obviously shaped by forces other than the instincts. Indeed, for no manifest genetic reason, humanity is constantly searching for a purpose to its existence; this search has led it to invent myths, art, rituals, languages, mathematics, science, and other truly remarkable things that set it apart from all other species. In this volume author Marcello Danesi shows us that the discipline that endeavors to understand the human meaning quest is known as semiotics. Danesi demonstrates how semiotics unravels the meanings of signs that make up the system of everyday life that we call a culture or a society. This book will engender in the reader the same kind of questioning and inquisitive frame of mind with which a semiotician approaches the subject matter of meaning. Basic semiotic ideas and analytical techniques are introduced via a seemingly fictional yet very telling scene, one which reveals a lot about the human need for meaning. The scene is a fashionable modern-day restaurant, and the fictional actions that occur allow Danesi to provide the semiotic version of the human drama in concrete terms. As Danesi argues, perhaps the greatest skill possessed by Homo Sapiens, literally the knowing animal, is the ability to know itself. This book reveals how semiotics helps to sharpen that ability considerably.

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Disappointed.......2004-07-15

The book offered little more than a rehash of The Naked Ape. There was some attempt to formalize the study by introducing a nomenclature and catagories, but there was nothing really added to the original.

Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics (Toronto Studies in Semiotics)

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Just that, an INTRODUCTION

Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics (Toronto Studies in Semiotics)
Thomas A. Sebeok
Manufacturer: University of Toronto Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0802077803

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Just that, an INTRODUCTION.......2002-02-20

"Semiotics is not about the 'real' world at all, but about complementary or alternative actual models of it... semiotics never reveals what the world is, but circumscribes what we can know about it."

Through SIGNS, Sebeok brings together the ideas of experience and abstract thought using the perspective of semeology: the doctrine of the sign. He traverses the sectors of language, psychology, biology (including entomology- yes, rather bizarre) and others to reveal the complex nature of the sign in a coherent prose that I would say caters to a broad spectrum of readers.

Sebeok is successful towards constructing an introduction to signs and provides a tremendous geneology of its supposed origin (through the Greek physician Hippocratis to the (structuralist?) Ferdinand Saussure), but you wonder: why have I given him only 3 stars? I would have easily given him another star (to make 4), but, alas, I do roll with a bias.

I give Sebeok 3 stars because I came into this book from the French post-structuralist perspective after reading Roland Barthes' S/Z (A 200+ page deconstruction of a 30 page Honore de Balzak short story). Barthes' beautifully lucid prose (though quite thick, haughty, and as usual, referenceless) hides the theoretical (and rather controversal) body of the text, but his fearless (and conceited) approach steals the attention of my adolescent aspirations to become a sophisticated individual.

At times I found Sebeok quite dull and his sporadic sense of humor mild, but as I bracket my emotions from the text I discover that from reading this book my conception of "signs" has become quite solid. If you go for this book- go for the 2nd edition (came out in 2001 i believe) it includes a Basic Notions chapter and glossary for those new in the field. I also recommend the "Fetish Signs" chapter- very interesting.

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Signs in Contemporary Culture: An Introduction to Semiotics
Arthur Asa Berger
Manufacturer: Sheffield Pub Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1879215373

Book Description

This text is a methodology book which discusses some fundamental principles of semiotics in a manner that makes the subject accessible to ordinary readers. But it is more than a methodology book because it applies semiotics to a wide range of subjects - everything from digital watches to pop art, from comics to baseball.

The Dimensionality of Signs, Tools, and Models: An Introduction (Advances in Semiotics)

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Serious and deep philosophy

The Dimensionality of Signs, Tools, and Models: An Introduction (Advances in Semiotics)
James H. Bunn
Manufacturer: Indiana Univ Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Serious and deep philosophy.......2003-04-22

I read this book 20 years ago, and it had a profound effect on me. It is deep thinking about the dimensionality of space(s) in everyday life that we take for granted, as to whether a perception highlights one-, two-, or three-dimensionality. A lot of very intelligent and thorough thinking went into this book. I recommend it to philosophers, artists, physicists, and architects or designers.

Signs in Contemporary Culture: An Introduction to Semiotics.

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Signs in Contemporary Culture: An Introduction to Semiotics.
Arthur Asa Berger
Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UY9XKE

Signs in Use: An Introduction to Semiotics

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Signs in Use: An Introduction to Semiotics
Jørgen Johansen
Manufacturer: Routledge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0415262046

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All organisms, from bees to computer networks, create signs, communicate, and exchange information. The field of semiotics explores the ways in which we use these signs to make inferences about the nature of the world.
Signs in Usecuts across different semiotic schools to introduce six basic concepts which present semiotics as a theory and a set of analytical tools: code, sign, discourse, action, text, and culture. Moving from the most simple to the most complex concept, the book gradually widens the semiotic perspective to show how and why semiotics works as it does.

Signs of Performance: An Introduction to Twentieth Century Theatre

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Semiotics at its best
Pretty obvious stuff...but always good for a bibliography

Signs of Performance: An Introduction to Twentieth Century Theatre
Colin Counsell
Manufacturer: Routledge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0415106427

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Signs of Performance: A Student's Guide provides the beginning student with working examples of theatrical analysis. Its range covers the whole of twentieth-century theatre, from Stanislavski to Brecht and Samuel Beckett to Robert Wilson. Colin Counsell takes a historical look at theatre as a cultural practice, clearly tracing connections between key practitioners' own ideas about performance; the theatrical practices prompted by those ideas; the resulting signs which emerge in performance; the meanings and political consequences of those signs. Signs of Performance is the first book to answer the question "How does theatre work?" It provides an understandable theoretical framework for the study of theatre as a signifying practice, and offers vivid explanations in clear, direct language. This is an "Everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-performance" book, and opens up this fascinating field to a broad audience.

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Semiotics at its best.......2001-05-02

Colin Counsell's reading of the performance practice of key practitioners in the twentith century is not only fascinating in general, but also shows how a reader-friendly application of semiotics can elucidate performance. While some semioticians divide and subdivide categories and concepts to the point where they become too abstract to be really useful, Counsell manages to remain clear, accessible and focused on performance as something an audience experiences and 'reads'.

Pretty obvious stuff...but always good for a bibliography.......2000-04-29

Good and well researched, but semiotics at this level can never really be THAT interesting...more irritating than Martin Esslin's books on the same subject...however, is worth a read if you are unsure of the subject...as I said before - fleshes out your bibliography!

The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics

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The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics
Mark Gottdiener
Manufacturer: Columbia Univ Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Signs in Contemporary Culture: An Introduction to Semiotics.
Arthur Asa Berger
Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown
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Binding: Hardcover
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Signs in Contemporary Culture: An Introduction to Semiotics.

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