The writing revolution cuneiform to the Internet /
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Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2009.
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| Series: | Language library.
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The writing revolution |h [electronic resource] : |b cuneiform to the Internet / |c Amalia E. Gnanadesikan. |
| 260 | |a Chichester, U.K. ; |a Malden, MA : |b Wiley-Blackwell, |c 2009. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 310 p., [8] p. of plates : |b ill. (some col.), maps. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a The language library | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 3,400 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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| 650 | 0 | |a Alphabet |x History. | |
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