Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb: Read & Listen Edition


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The classic Beginner Book is now available with delightful audio narration. A madcap band of dancing, prancing monkeys explain hands, fingers, and thumbs to beginning readers. Bright and Early Books are perfect for beginning beginner readers! Launched by Dr. Seuss in 1968 with The Foot Book, Bright and Early Books use fewer and easier words than Beginner Books. Readers just starting to recognize words and sound out letters will love these short books with colorful illustrations. This ebook includes Read & Listen audio narration.




The Pointing Finger


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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks


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Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this tour of two thousand years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time.







The Practice of Classical Palmistry


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Gypsies have been reading palms for hundreds of years and everyone knows that they can tell you the future. Madame La Roux is a bona fide gypsy who has traveled the country and read thousands of palms. In this fact-packed book, she teaches you how to get information from the lines, the fingers, the thumb, the bumbs and knots, the hills and valleys of the palm--so you can accurately predict the future for yourself and for your friends. It is an easy-to-learn technique, and she provides pictures of hands and lines, present case studies, checklists, and supplies worksheets that enable you to quickly grasp the overall meaning of all of the features of the hand. Also included are instructions for making good palmprints. This is the book to have if you want to learn to read the palm!




Symbolism


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The use of symbolism is an art, not a science. Different people use symbols in a variety of ways and each symbol can have diverse meanings, even within the same culture. Not surprisingly, determining the meaning of symbols can be difficult. This valuable reference defines the general symbolism of more than 15,000 terms, from ancient to modern, as well as specialized meanings in mythology, religion, art, literature, folklore, flower language, astrology, heraldry, numerology, and cultures the world over. From "0" to "Zu," each entry catalogs all possible connotations, listed by culture when appropriate, creating the most comprehensive symbolism dictionary available.










Our Young People


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