The set is particularly notable for its global representation and its interdisciplinary approach. It will prove indispensable not just for students of semiotics per se but also for researchers in countless other disciplines engaged in examining perception, language, and representation, i.e., the nature of communication. This set will be welcome by semioticians and nonsemioticians alike for its breadth of semiotic insight on human knowledge. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.

The set is particularly notable for its global representation and its interdisciplinary approach. It will prove indispensable not just for students of semiotics per se but also for researchers in countless other disciplines engaged in examining perception, language, and representation, i.e., the nature of communication. This set will be welcome by semioticians and nonsemioticians alike for its breadth of semiotic insight on human knowledge. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.

This is a much-needed reference that promises to provide a very solid general and historical introduction to a complex way of thinking, but also introduces a very wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to the field.

This is a state-of-the-art survey of semiotic inquiry. Recommended for researchers in the field.

Volume 2: Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences delivers the contemporary state of the art, craft, and science of semiotic applications in math and logic, in biology and cognitive sciences, and in professional and technical fields from architecture to medicine and beyond, with expert contributions achieving prescient depth of coverage and cutting-edge comprehensive bibliographic documentation.

Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences testifies to the power of semiotics to innovate through the creation of new research paths, and to renovate by revisiting older paths and reshaping them through fundamental changes of perspectives. The result is an inspiring multidirectional and multidimensional programmatic chart that redraws boundaries and suggests uncharted territories in need of careful signage.

Peircean Semiotics offers some of the most interesting and insightful perspectives on the nature of communication as a crucial force in the universe, ranging from human language to physics. In Volume 4: Semiotic Movements Jamin Pelkey and Paul Cobley have brought together some of the leading semioticians from around the world on an exciting range of topics. This is an important volume that all readers, whether new to semiotics or long-term semioticians, will enjoy and learn a great deal from. I highly recommend it.

Jamin Pelkey is Professor of Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology, and Director of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada.