Describes graphic signs and symbols and their importance to communication, from picture writing by cavemen to today's use of numbers, musical notes, religious signs, trademarks, signs in science and industry, trail, markers and traffic signals, and the potentials of international sign writing.Various markings and symbols used around the world are illustrated with their meanings from trademarks to scientific signs
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Elizabeth S. Helfman is author of 20 books for children and young adults, of such subjects as conservation, mythology, and Blissymbolics, a system of graphic signs used for communication by people who cannot speak. Signs and Symbols Around the World is of interest to all ages.
"Mrs. Helfman has assembled remarkably interesting and stimulating materials. This is a book that will interest all ages..." -- Margaret Mead
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