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Symbols : encyclopedia of western signs and ideograms

Contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. In 1,600 articles their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti
Print Book, English, 2004
3rd rev. and augm. English language ed View all formats and editions
HME Media, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004
Encyclopedia
640 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9789197270502, 9197270504
62522431
Previously titled: Thought signs : the semiotics of symbols-- western non-pictorial ideograms / Carl G. Liungman. 1995
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