Eco, Umberto.
Summary: "In these essays, Umberto Eco explores in depth such subjects as perception, the relationship between language and experience, and iconism that he only touched on in A Theory of Semiotics. Forgoing a formal, systematic treatment, Eco engages in a series of explorations based on common sense, from which flow an abundance of illustrative fables, often with animals as protagonists. Among the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace 1994
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Summary: "Eco's approach is anything but dry and academic. He not only offers practical advice but also considers larger questions about the value of the thesis-writing exercise. How to Write a Thesis is unlike any other writing manual. It reads like a novel. It is opinionated. It is frequently irreverent, sometimes polemical, and often hilarious. Eco advises students how to avoid "thesis neurosis" and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1986
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Summary: Collects short essays from the author that reflect on the changing modern world, touching on such topics as popular culture, politics, being seen, conspiracies, the old and the young, new technologies, mass media, racism, and good manners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 854 ECOLippincott, Kristen
Contents: Times / by Umberto Eco -- From observation to record : astronomy in prehistory and the early civilizations / by John North -- Principles and uses of calendars / by Silke Ackermann -- Mesoamerican and Andean timekeeping and calendars / by Anthony Aveni -- Time and space in Islam / by David A. King -- Cyclical and linear concepts of time in China / by Michael Loewe -- Cycles, seasons and stages...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Merrell Holberton 1999