Signs and Symbols

Signs and SymbolsBy: DK Series: DK Compact Culture Guides Since when did certain hand gestures become offensive? And why are scales a symbol of justice? For thousands of years, humans have communicated through a language of signs and symbols. From uniforms to body adornment and corporate logos, symbols are everywhere, and this book is your guide to their secret meanings and history. The Sun as well as the night sky with its stars and planets has long been used to

Experiment with mysterious powders and slimy goo to form squishy biopolymers with cute faces

But he cares tenderly for his children

映入眼簾的是滿滿的綠，不僅帶來沁涼的氣息，也為小鹿染上了屬於森林的色彩。

and infinite growth

including her masterful profiles of Nicole Kidman

Extinction-level dangers draw closer with every tick

A rocket scientist like Annie Easley

this book reveals the secret meanings behind more than 80 canine behaviours

relentlessness

SOPHIE HANNAH

thanks to Joel Sartore's remarkable Photo Ark portraits of insects

a thriving African American community—enfranchised and emancipated—suddenly and violently loses its freedom in turn-of-the-century North Carolina when a group of local politicians stages the only successful coup d'etat in US history