Title:
The writing revolution cuneiform to the Internet / Amalia E. Gnanadesikan.
The language library
Language library.
Main Entry:
Gnanadesikan, Amalia E.
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell,
Publication Date:
2009.
Publication Place:
Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA :
ISBN:
1405154063 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781405154062 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1405154071 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781405154079 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject:
Writing -- History.
Alphabet -- History.
Electronic books.
Series:
The language library
Language library.
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 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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