Showing 1-10 of approximately 2979 books results for "symbolic" .
Author: Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb
ISBN: 0262600692
Recommended Retail Price: $19.95
Ideas about heredity and evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. New findings in molecular biology challenge the gene-centered version of Darwinian theory according to which adaptation occurs only through natural selection of chance DNA variations. In Evolution in Four Dimensions, Eva Jablonka and Mario...
Author: Olav Velthuis
ISBN: 0691134030
Recommended Retail Price: $20.95
How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? Talking Prices is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews with art dealers in New York and Amsterdam, ...
Author: Mary Jo Hatch
ISBN: 0199260214
Recommended Retail Price: $69.95
Organization Theory offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to the study of organizations and organizing processes. It encourages an even-handed appreciation of the different perspectives contributing to our knowledge of organizations and challenges readers to broaden their intellectual reach.
Author: Terrence W. Deacon
ISBN: 0393317544
Recommended Retail Price: $19.95
This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and b...
Author: Lewis Carroll
ISBN: 0486204928
Recommended Retail Price: $12.95
Over 350 ingenious problems involving classical logic: logic is expressed in terms of symbols; syllogisms and the sorites are diagrammed; logic becomes a game played with two diagrams and a set of counters. Two books bound as one.
Yes, this is the Lewis Carroll who wrote Alice in Wonderland, and these two works sho...
Author: Erwin Panofsky
ISBN: 0942299531
Recommended Retail Price: $22.95
Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual history, the legendary text that has dominated all art historical and philosophical discussions on the topic of perspective in this century. Finally available in English, it is an unrivaled example of Panofsky's early ...
Author: Pierre Bourdieu
ISBN: 0674510410
Recommended Retail Price: $35.50
This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations among language, power, and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech-acts elaborated by Au...
Author: Dane Rudhyar
ISBN: 0394719921
Recommended Retail Price: $12.00
Some three decades ago, in an attempt to produce a series of symbols that would be relevant to contemporary students of astrology, Marc Edmund Jones and a clairvoyant friend formulated the so-called Sabian symbols. Now Dane Rudhyar has taken these symbols and reinterpreted them to emphasize their character as a cyclic ...
Author: Michael Snuffin
ISBN: 0738711926
Recommended Retail Price: $16.95
Aleister Crowley's Thoth tarot—one of the most respected yet enigmatic tarot decks of all time—offers rich rewards for those who can penetrate its complex symbolism.
Written by ceremonial magician and tarot expert Michael Osiris Snuffin, The Thoth Companion is the key to understanding the true symbo...
Author: Herbert Blumer
ISBN: 0520056760
Recommended Retail Price: $21.95