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Provides a theory of codes and a theory of sign production and discusses communication and signification

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9780253359551, titled "A Theory of Semiotics" | Indiana Univ Pr, February 1, 1976, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Provides a theory of codes and a theory of sign production and discusses communication and signification

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9780253202178, titled "A Theory of Semiotics" | Indiana Univ Pr, February 1, 1979, cover price $34.95

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"... not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." ―The Review of Metaphysics"... essential reading for anyone interesting in... the new reader-centered forms of criticism." ―Library JournalIn this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between ‘open’ and ‘closed’ texts.

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9780253111395 | Indiana Univ Pr, July 1, 1979, cover price $29.95 | also contains Proceedings of the International Compositae Confence, Kew, 1994: Vol. 1 Compositae: Systematics; Vol. 2 Compositae: Biology & Utilisation | About this edition: ".

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9780253203182, titled "The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts" | Reprint edition (Indiana Univ Pr, March 1, 1984), cover price $24.00

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Product Description: Rare Book

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9783110095890 | Mouton De Gruyter, October 1, 1984, cover price $154.00 | About this edition: Rare Book

In this 'Postscript' the reader looks over Eco's shoulder as he conjures up the abbey's labyrinthine library, plots a series of macabre murders, debates with his sleuth, William of Baskerville, and uncovers tracks that the monks desperately try to cover up again.

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9781568496757 | Reprint edition (Buccaneer Books, June 1, 1995), cover price $29.95
9781568496757 | Reprint edition (Buccaneer Books, June 1, 1995), cover price $29.95
9780151731565 | Harcourt, November 1, 1984, cover price $1.98 | also contains Complex Analysis: Fundamentals of the Classical Theory of Functions | About this edition: In this 'Postscript' the reader looks over Eco's shoulder as he conjures up the abbey's labyrinthine library, plots a series of macabre murders, debates with his sleuth, William of Baskerville, and uncovers tracks that the monks desperately try to cover up again.

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In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville is sent to investigate charges of heresy but his mission is eclipsed by a bizarre series of murders

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9788497592581 | 5 tra edition (Debolsillo, April 30, 2009), cover price $14.95
9788426411488 | Lectorum Pubns, September 1, 1985, cover price $36.50 | About this edition: In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville is sent to investigate charges of heresy but his mission is eclipsed by a bizarre series of murders

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Essays discuss the Middle Ages, language, culture, the media, sports, fashion, photography, films, and philosophy

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9780151910793 | 1 edition (Harcourt, May 1, 1986), cover price $1.98 | About this edition: Essays discuss the Middle Ages, language, culture, the media, sports, fashion, photography, films, and philosophy

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9780156913218 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, May 1, 1990), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss the Middle Ages, language, culture, the media, sports, fashion, photography, films, and philosophy

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"Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature... this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." --Times Literary Supplement

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9780253351685 | Indiana Univ Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $31.50 | About this edition: "Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature.

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9780253203984 | Reprint edition (Indiana Univ Pr, July 1, 1986), cover price $24.00
9780023997709, titled "Games for the Elementary School Grades" | Burgess Intl Group, June 1, 1951, cover price $27.00 | also contains Games for the Elementary School Grades | About this edition: This is a resource for teachers or parents; a set of educational games for children to play in many different environments.

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Looks at the development of aesthetic philosophy during the sixth through fifteenth centuries and discusses the theology, poetry, science, and mysticism of the period

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9780300093049 | Yale Univ Pr, February 8, 2002, cover price $12.95
9780300042078 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, July 27, 1988), cover price $11.00 | also contains Andrew Johnson's Civil War and Reconstruction | About this edition: Looks at the development of aesthetic philosophy during the sixth through fifteenth centuries and discusses the theology, poetry, science, and mysticism of the period

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Product Description: "... fascinating throughout.... the book is recreative in the highest sense." ―Arthur C. Danto, The New Republic"A gem for Holmes fans and armchair detectives with a penchant for logical reflection, and Peirce scholars." ―Library Journal (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780253204875 | Indiana Univ Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: ".

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Product Description: "... an excellent collection... " ―Journal of Language & Social PsychologyAn important collection of original essays by well-known scholars debating the questions of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780253204967 | Indiana Univ Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: ".

Three astronauts from different countries land on Mars, meet a strange Martian, and make an amazing discovery about the nature of humanity

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9780152863838 | Harcourt Childrens Books, February 1, 1989, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Three astronauts from different countries land on Mars, meet a strange Martian, and make an amazing discovery about the nature of humanity

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An important general collects atoms and stocks his bombs with them, but the peace-loving atoms prefer not to take part in any wars
By Eugenio Carmi, Umberto Eco and Juvenile Collection (other contributor)

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9780152097004 | Harcourt Childrens Books, February 1, 1989, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A bad general who wishes to start a war with atom bombs is foiled and reduced to the humiliating status of doorman, an occupation in which he can use his uniform with all the braid.

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Essays discuss poetry, communication, television, form, aesthetics, bad taste, and art

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9780674639751 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 1989, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Essays discuss poetry, communication, television, form, aesthetics, bad taste, and art

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9780674639768 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 3, 1989, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss poetry, communication, television, form, aesthetics, bad taste, and art

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Product Description: Book by Eco, Umberto (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780674006355 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 1989, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Book by Eco, Umberto

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Product Description: In the course of the long debate on the nature and the classification of signs, from Boethius to Ockham, there are at least three lines of thought: the Stoic heritage, that influences Augustine, Abelard, Francis Bacon; the Aristotelian tradition, stemming from the commentaries on De Interpretatione; the discussion of the grammarians, from Priscian to the Modistae...read more

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9789027232939 | John Benjamins Pub Co, July 1, 1989, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: In the course of the long debate on the nature and the classification of signs, from Boethius to Ockham, there are at least three lines of thought: the Stoic heritage, that influences Augustine, Abelard, Francis Bacon; the Aristotelian tradition, stemming from the commentaries on De Interpretatione; the discussion of the grammarians, from Priscian to the Modistae.

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9781556190759 | John Benjamins Pub Co, April 1, 1989, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: In the course of the long debate on the nature and the classification of signs, from Boethius to Ockham, there are at least three lines of thought: the Stoic heritage, that influences Augustine, Abelard, Francis Bacon; the Aristotelian tradition, stemming from the commentaries on De Interpretatione; the discussion of the grammarians, from Priscian to the Modistae.

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Traces the life of the cartoonist and his celebrated characters, collects scores of color plates and comic strips, and includes a photo album of Schulz's life and career
By Umberto Eco (contributor) and Giovanni Trimboli

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9780886875183 | Pharos Books, October 1, 1990, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Traces the life of the cartoonist and his celebrated characters, collects scores of color plates and comic strips, and includes a photo album of Schulz's life and career

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Product Description: This is a collection of parodies by the author of "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucault's Pendulum". Professor Anouk Ooma of Prince Joseph's Land University addresses his colleagues on recent archaeological findings that shed light on the poetry of Italy before the Explosion, Columbus' landing in the New World is covered by TV reporters and structural analysis of the art of striptease as performed by Lilly Niagara of the Crazy Horse...read more

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9780330334686 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, October 1, 1994, cover price $12.99 | also contains The Colonial System Unveiled | About this edition: This is a collection of parodies by the author of "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucault's Pendulum".
9780156607520 | 1 edition (Mariner Books, May 1, 1993), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Parodies of literary and academic writers include a version of 'Lolita' with an older woman, an inside account of heavenly bureaucracy, and the story of Columbus' landing as if done by television news

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Hardcover:

9780674810501 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $19.95

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9780674810518 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $23.00

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9780028811130, titled "This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History" | Reprint edition (Potomac Books Inc, December 1, 1994), cover price $32.95 | also contains This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History
9780253318527 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $35.00

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9780253208699 | Reprint edition (Indiana Univ Pr, March 1, 1994), cover price $33.95

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