Tag: Symbols

Free Download The Language of Tattoos: 130 Symbols and What They Mean by Nick Schonberger, Oliver Munden
English | November 22, 2022 | ISBN: 0711267863 | 224 pages | MOBI | 21 Mb
This beautifully illustrated guide delves deep into the meaning and significance of different tattoo symbols, exploring the rich cultural history around the world of this widespread form of body art.

Free Download Communication in History: Stone Age Symbols to Social Media By Peter Urquhart, Paul Heyer
2018 | 364 Pages | ISBN: 1138729477 | EPUB | 4 MB
Now in its 7th edition, Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. Thirty-eight contributions from a wide range of voices offer instructors the opportunity to customize their courses while challenging students to build upon their own knowledge and skill sets. From stone-age symbols and early writing to the Internet and social media, readers are introduced to an expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication media.

Free Download Jason A. Edwards, "The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion: Symbols, Sinners, and Saints "
English | ISBN: 1498541488 | 2016 | 248 pages | EPUB | 985 KB
The tie that binds all Americans, regardless of their demographic background, is faith in the American system of government. This faith manifests as a form of civil, or secular, religion with its own core documents, creeds, oaths, ceremonies, and even individuals. In The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion: Symbols, Sinners, and Saints, contributors seek to examine some of those core elements of American faith by exploring the proverbial saints, sinners and dominant symbols of the American system.

Free Download Thomas S. Weinberg, "Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities: An Interactionist Anthology"
English | ISBN: 145227665X | 2014 | 344 pages | EPUB | 679 KB
Offering an anthology of original articles on sexuality from a sociological perspective, Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities: An Interactionist Anthology focuses on the diverse and multi-layered meanings of sexuality, sexual behaviors and sexual identities. Thomas S. Weinberg and Staci Newmahr bring you essays that explore sexuality as a social process. As a whole, the book takes the perspective that what each of us understands to be sexual is constructed through everyday social processes and interaction, situated in particular spaces and moments, identified through our social-sexual presentations, and symbolized through language, objects and practices. The book is organized around these four distinct but interrelated processes, and augmented by personal narratives around relevant issues. The authors’ goals for the book are to engage students in the sociological enterprise by providing interesting and insightful entries that emphasize the importance of meaning-making in human sexuality, and to provide them with conceptual tools to understand human sexuality in a complex and quickly changing sexual landscape.

Free Download Alvita Akiboh, "Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire"
English | ISBN: 0226828484 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 11 MB
An ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency-and the role they played in US imperialism.

Free Download A Dictionary of Symbols (Dover Occult) by J. E. Cirlot
English | September 16, 2002 | ISBN: 0486425231 | 599 pages | PDF | 17 Mb
Humans, it’s said, are symbolizing animals. At every stage of civilization, people have relied on symbolic expression, and advances in science and technology have only increased our dependence on symbols. The language of symbols is considered a science, and this informative volume offers an indispensable tool in the study of symbology. It can be used as a reference or simply browsed for pleasure. Many of its entries – those on architecture, mandala, numbers, serpent, water, and zodiac, for example – can be read as independent essays. The vitality of symbology has never been greater: An essential part of the ancient arts of the Orient and of the Western medieval traditions, symbolism underwent a 20th-century revival with the study of the unconscious, both directly in the field of dreams, visions, and psychoanalysis, and indirectly in art and poetry. A wide audience awaits the assistance of this dictionary in elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas.

Free Download Devdutt Pattanaik, "Indian Mythology: Tales, Symbols, and Rituals from the Heart of the Subcontinent"
English | 2003 | pages: 216 | ISBN: 0892818700 | EPUB | 16,4 mb
An exploration of 99 classic myths of India from an entirely non-Western paradigm that provides a fresh understanding of the Hindu spiritual landscape