Illus. in full color. The letters on an alphabet tree, torn and tossed by the wind, find strength in banding together to form words. Then a clever caterpillar teaches the letters to become even stronger by forming sentences with a message of peace in a gentle parable about the power of the written word.

When a fierce wind threatens to blow all the little letters out of the alphabet tree, they must band together in words—and then sentences—to create a message that’s even stronger than the wind: peace on earth. With their newfound knowledge, there's nothing the letters can't do in this gentle parable about the power of the written word.

For use in schools and libraries only. A strong wind blows most of the letters off the alphabet tree and those that remain hide among the branches. A bug and a caterpillar come along and teach the letters how to arrange themselves into words and sentences to form a special message.

A graphical representation of the alphabet gives a new view of the letters, from the A that crumbles as an avalanche approaches to the D that glows with the light of the devil.

Digital technologies have changed architecture--the way it is taught, practiced, managed, and regulated. But if the digital has created a "paradigm shift" for architecture, which paradigm is shifting? In The Alphabet and the Algorithm, Mario Carpo points to one key practice of modernity: the making of identical copies. Carpo highlights two examples of identicality crucial to th...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A 1996 Caldecott Honor book The urban landscape will never look the same again. As Stephen T. Johnson demonstrates in a series of strikingly realistic pastels and watercolors, a simple sawhorse can contain the letter "A"--while lampposts alongside a highway can form a row of elegant, soaring Ys. A 1996 Caldecott Honor book, this sophisticated, wordless alphabet book ...(展开全部)

罗伯特·洛根(Robert K.Logan，1939—)，加拿大物理学家、传播学家，从事跨学科研究，是麦克卢汉思想圈子的核心成员、媒介环境学派第二代代表人物。著有《字母表效应．拼音文字与西方文明》、《第六语言：学会在互联网时代生存》、《心灵的延伸：语言、心灵和文化的滥觞》、《理解新媒介：延伸麦克卢汉》等。《第六语言》2000年获媒介环境学会苏珊·朗格奖。

A strange boy with red hair leads a birthday-girl and her companions on a hunt for the wishing tree which brings them many suprising and magical adventures.

作者 桑迪•托兰（Sandy Tolan）南加州大学安纳伯格传播与新闻学院教授，重点关注土地、身份、环境和全球经济等交叉领域。托兰是三本非虚构图书的作者，还是十二部纪录片和纪实广播的制作人。 -- 译者 杨扬 现当代文学硕士，管理学硕士，编辑、记者、书评人，致力于挖掘生活和文本中的趣味性。著、译作品包括《这辈子：1920—2020外婆回忆录》《月光下的歌谣》。