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Blackwell, Wiley-Interscience, Wiley-Blackwell
Language
English
Pages
336

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Subjects
History, Alphabet, Writing, Writing, history

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Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet
2011, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet
2011, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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The writing revolution: from cuneiform to the internet
2009, Blackwell, Wiley-Interscience, Wiley-Blackwell
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Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet
2009, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet
2009, Wiley & Sons, Limited, John
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Malden, MA, USA, Oxford, UK

Table of Contents

The first it revolution
Cuneiform: forgotten legacy of a forgotten people
Egyptian hieroglyphs and the quest for eternity
Chinese: a love of paperwork
Maya glyphs: calendars of kings
Linear B: the clerks of Agamemnon
Japanese: three scripts are better than one
Cherokee: Sequoyah reverse-engineers
The Semitic alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3400 years
The empire of Sanskrit
King Sejong's one-man renaissance
Greek serendipity
The age of Latin
The alphabet meets the machine.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The language library

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Dewey Decimal Class
411.09
Library of Congress
P211 .G58 2009, P211.G58 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
336

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OL16729172M
Internet Archive
writingrevolutio00gnan
ISBN 13
9781405154062, 9781405154079
LCCN
2008014284
OCLC/WorldCat
217263635
Library Thing
7613991
Goodreads
6357388

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