Download or read book Signs Across America written by Edgar H. Shroyer and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signs Across America provides a fascinating and unique look at regional variations in American Sign Language. The authors contacted native signers in 25 states to find out their signs for 130 selected words. The results--more than 1,200 signs--are illustrated in this book. It is an invaluable reference for teachers of American Sign Language that explores the subtle differences in signs from different geographic areas.
Download or read book Church Signs Across America written by Steve Paulson and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-colour illustrated celebration of one of America's most witty, inspiring and under-appreciated traditions. Including photographs of American churches from every denomination, Church Signs Across America is remarkable as much for its display of the diversity of American church architecture as it is for the variety of humour and inspiration displayed in the signs. This inimitable book is an upflifting and often very comical classic.
Download or read book Signs of the Americas written by Edgar Garcia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar Garcia makes clear in Signs of the Americas. Rather than being dead languages, these sign-systems have always been living, evolving signifiers, responsive to their circumstances and able to continuously redefine themselves and the nature of the world. Garcia tells the story of the present life of these sign-systems, examining the contemporary impact they have had on poetry, prose, visual art, legal philosophy, political activism, and environmental thinking. In doing so, he brings together a wide range of indigenous and non-indigenous authors and artists of the Americas, from Aztec priests and Amazonian shamans to Simon Ortiz, Gerald Vizenor, Jaime de Angulo, Charles Olson, Cy Twombly, Gloria Anzaldúa, William Burroughs, Louise Erdrich, Cecilia Vicuña, and many others. From these sources, Garcia depicts the culture of a modern, interconnected hemisphere, revealing that while these “signs of the Americas” have suffered expropriation, misuse, and mistranslation, they have also created their own systems of knowing and being. These indigenous systems help us to rethink categories of race, gender, nationalism, and history. Producing a new way of thinking about our interconnected hemisphere, this ambitious, energizing book redefines what constitutes a “world” in world literature.
Download or read book Signs and Wonders written by Tama Starr and published by Currency. This book was released on 1998 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Coauthored by the third-generation owner of Artkraft Strauss, the century-old company that built most of Times Square's landmark displays," this book details the history of "spectaculars," the giant animated signs best exemplified in Times Square.
Download or read book Bible Road written by Sam Fentress and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last 25 years, photographer Sam Fentress has traveled America taking architectural photographs as his full-time profession. In this never-before published collection, Fentress reveals an America rich with spirituality, hunger, compassion, sorrow, remorse, and jubilation.
Download or read book Signs and Wonders in America Today written by Jane Rumph and published by Vine Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Across America I Love You written by Christine Loomis and published by Hyperion Books for Children. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the various landscapes of America, from the Rocky Mountains and Alaska's wildlands to the giant sequoias of California, relating the parent-child relationship to these natural settings.
Download or read book Carnegie Libraries Across America written by Theodore Jones and published by . This book was released on 1997-04-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And with the help of original documents, including letters of petition by schoolteachers, bankers, and civic leaders from across the United States, he provides valuable insights into life in turn-of-the-century American towns and the values and aspirations of their citizens.
Download or read book LaRue Across America written by and published by Blue Sky Press (AZ). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this next bestselling title from Mark Teague, Ike's plans for a peaceful cruise with Mrs. LaRue are thwarted when their neighbor, Mrs. Hibbins, falls suddenly ill. While she recovers, Mrs. LaRue is taking her cats on a weeklong road trip vacation. Ike is beside himself and quickly takes up his pen to tell us why! Join award-winner Mark Teague on this romping road trip across America. Readers can follow along on the maps of the U.S. that span the endpapers. Teague drives us to the story's satisfying conclusion, and we are left with one profound question: Can cats and dogs really be friends?
Download or read book The Great American Book of Church Signs written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've all seen them. The catchy and quirky messages displayed on church marquees like: "Life is fragile. Handle with prayer." In Donald Seitz's beautiful full-color book, THE GREAT AMERICAN BOOK OF CHURCH SIGNS, every signs tells its own story--encouraging us to live better lives, to love more deeply, and to pray more often. And with the turn of every page, we're reminded to laugh along the way. One sign of encouragement reads: "Don't give up. Moses was once a basket case." The 100 signs featured in this book, drawn from more than a dozen denominations, cover such diverse topics as faith, forgiveness, perseverance, love and eternity. "Collectively," Seitz adds, "these signs offer one great American sermon." With his keen eye for detail, his exquisite photography, and his love for the subject matter, Seitz has created the definitive work on church signs.
Download or read book Vintage Tampa Signs and Scenes written by John V. Cinchett and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1950s, the Cinchett Neon Sign Company came to be Tampa's best-known sign maker. When the city planned to build a zoo, the mayor asked Cinchett to design the new sign. Fried chicken king Colonel Sanders had the sign company create all the neon work for his first two Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in Central Florida, and soon after, other reputable businesses came calling.
Download or read book Signs of Grace written by Kristin Schwain and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious imagery was ubiquitous in late-nineteenth-century American life: department stores, schoolbooks, postcards, and popular magazines all featured elements of Christian visual culture. Such imagery was not limited to commercial and religious artifacts, however, for it also found its way into contemporary fine art. In Signs of Grace, Kristin Schwain looks anew at the explicitly religious work of four prominent artists in this period--Thomas Eakins, F. Holland Day, Abbott Handerson Thayer, and Henry Ossawa Tanner--and argues that art and religion performed analogous functions within American culture. Fully expressing the concerns and values of turn-of-the-century Americans, this artwork depicted religious figures and encouraged the beholders' communion with them.Describing how these artists drew on their religious beliefs and practices, as well as how beholders looked to art to provide a transcendent experience, Schwain explores how a modern conception of faith as an individual relationship with the divine facilitated this sanctified relationship between art and viewer. This stress on the interior and subjective experience of religion accentuated the artist's efforts to engage beholders personally with works of art; how better to fix the viewer's attention than to hold out the promise of salvation? Schwain shows that while these new visual practices emphasized individual encounters with art objects, they also carried profound social implications. By negotiating changes in religious belief--by aestheticizing faith in a new, particularly American manner--these practices contributed to evolving debates about art, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender.
Download or read book Autumn Across America written by Seymour Simon and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seymour Simon chronicles autumn's transformations in a gorgeously photographed visual journey across the U.S., introducing young readers to the scientific principles behind some of nature's most beautiful moments. Throughout the book he conveys a gentle ecological message highlighting the need for conservation. Full-color photos.
Download or read book Ghost Signs of Arkansas written by and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Across America by Motor cycle written by C. K. Shepherd and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1922 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across America By Motor-Cycle by C.K. Shepherd (Illustrated) [1922]
Download or read book The Negro Motorist Green Book written by Victor H. Green and published by Colchis Books. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.
Download or read book The Blues Go Birding Across America written by Carol Malnor and published by Blues Go Birding. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a unique blend of caricature and realism, five adorable cartoon bluebirds - a band in search of a different song for their upcoming concert - go birdwatching (and bird-listening) across the continent. Along the way they see remarkable (real) birds from the bald eagle in Alaska to mallard ducks in Boston, and discover the joys of birdwatching. The book is chock full of information about the birds, in the form of field guide pages, journal entries by the BLUES, and birding tips.
