Author: David Fontana
Publisher: Chronicle Book
Keywords: symbols, meanings, key, visual, secret, language
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-02-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0811838218
ISBN-13: 9780811838214
In this highly readable and vividly illustrated book, best-selling author David Fontana traces the origins of hundreds of symbols and symbol systems that have impacted human culture, art, history, literature, and even dreams. From chakras and the I Ching to the tarot and the zodiac, from mythical beasts to magical numbers, these are the symbols that shape consciousness. Visual artists, students, and soul searchers of every stripe will want to deepen their knowledge of these intriguing icons. Now in a compact and handy size, it?s more practical than ever for both reference and inspiration.
The Herder Dictionary of Symbols: Symbols from Art, Archaeology, Mythology, Literature, and Religion
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Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: symbols, literature, religion, mythology, art, dictionary, herder, archaeology
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1993-05
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0933029845
ISBN-13: 9780933029842
This new edition of Chiron’s popular guide to the meaning of symbols in religion, archaeology, mythology, art, dreams, fairy tales, and literature contains more than 1,000 entries from all over the world, revealing an abundance of the types of human symbolic thinking. Formerly titled The Herder Symbol Dictionary. Over 450 illustrations.
Author: Muriel L. Dubois
Publisher: Bridgestone Books
Keywords: symbols, states, facts, hampshire, new
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2000-01
List price: $18.60
ISBN-10: 0736805249
ISBN-13: 9780736805247
Presents information about the state of New Hampshire, its nickname, motto, and emblems.
Author: Mark Hosak
Publisher: Lotus Pre
Keywords: symbols, system, natural, usui, healing, transition, reiki, spiritual, book, mantras
Number of Pages: 692
Published: 2007-01-25
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0914955640
ISBN-13: 9780914955641
The traditional symbols of the Usui System of Reiki take a key position in this unique tradition. Without them and their mantra’s, Reiki is not possible. The dedication rituals necessary for the practice of Reiki as well as the complex healings can only be accomplished on the foundation of Usui symbols with the certainty and effectiveness one expects from Reiki. Written in a remarkably precise and lucid style by two foremost authors on Reiki, this compendium reveals indispensable information of tremendous spiritual value.
Author: Cath Senker
Publisher: PowerKids Pre
Keywords: stories, symbols, signs, religious, islam
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1435830407
ISBN-13: 9781435830400
Author: Agne Rusta
Publisher: Taylor & Franci
Keywords: rock, terms, symbols, blasting, mining, mechanics, drilling, dictionary, related, areas
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $209.95
ISBN-10: 9054104414
ISBN-13: 9789054104414
This dictionary represents today the most extensive rock blasting dictionary available and it is therefore a valuable tool and essential for research and writing reports, papers to international journals. Terminology is important in the process of development of a science because it is the language for communication between students, teachers, technicians, scientists and practitioners in the field of blasting. This dictionary contains 1,980 terms, 316 symbols, ninety-three acronyms, abbreviations and shortened forms, 221 references, thirty-one figures, thity-two formulas and twenty-eight tabl
Author: J. C. Cirlot
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: symbols, dictionary
Number of Pages: 508
Published: 1990-12-31
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415036496
ISBN-13: 9780415036498
The unvarying essential meanings of around 1,000 symbols and symbolic themes commonly found in the art, literature and thought of all cultures through the ages are clarified.