The Routledge Companion to Semiotics provides the ideal introduction to semiotics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international leaders in the field.
Topics:
the history, development, and uses of semiotics
key theorists, including Saussure, Peirce and Sebeok
crucial and contemporary topics such as biosemiotics, sociosemiotics and semioethics
the semiotics of media and culture, nature and cognition.
This is an invaluable reference guide for students of semiotics at all levels.
Teaching Primary Science: Promoting Enjoyment & Developing Understanding
This book is a new kind of text linking subject knowledge and pedagogy in one package, rather than treating them as separate entities. The text aims to encourage trainee teachers to teach scientific concepts in contexts which will inspire the children to look at the world in new and intriguing ways, rather than presenting it as a list of facts and definitions. Encouraging critical reflection and offering practical support, this book will help trainee teachers to overcome negative attitudes to Science.
" It argues for a new geography curriculum founded on a set of major concepts that are profoundly relevant to 21st century life. For years, books on 11-18 geography education have focussed on classroom techniques, new pedagogic technologies and alternative modes of student assessment. 'Teaching Geography 11-18' asks not only what geography is for, but bases its answer on a set of key concepts able to sustain an exciting and relevant curriculum.
Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook
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Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook
This is an authoritative presentation and discussion of the most basic thematic elements universally found in folklore and literature. The reference provides a detailed analysis of the most common archetypes or motifs found in the folklore of selected communities around the world.
Geometry and Billiards (Student Mathematical Library)Mathematical billiards describe the motion of a mass point in a domain with elastic reflections off the boundary or, equivalently, the behavior of rays of light in a domain with ideally reflecting boundary. From the point of view of differential geometry, the billiard flow is the geodesic flow on a manifold with boundary.
