Alphabet year / / Devon Miller-Duggan
| Alphabet year / / Devon Miller-Duggan |
| Autore | Miller-Duggan Devon |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Eugene, Oregon : , : Resource Publications, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (88 pages) |
| Disciplina | 411 |
| Soggetto topico |
Alphabet
Alphabet - History |
| ISBN | 1-5326-0309-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910162805503321 |
Miller-Duggan Devon
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| Eugene, Oregon : , : Resource Publications, , 2017 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell
| Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell |
| Autore | Powell Barry B |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
| Disciplina | 411.09 |
| Soggetto topico |
Writing - History
Alphabet - History Writing - Social aspects |
| ISBN |
1-283-45402-5
9786613454027 1-118-29348-7 1-118-29351-7 1-118-29350-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood -- What is writing? -- Writing with signs -- Categories and features of writing -- Some general issues in the study of writing -- Protocuneiform and counting tokens -- Origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia -- Plato's Ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Egyptian writing and Egyptian speech -- The origin and nature of Egyptian writing -- "The house of life" : scribes and writing in ancient Egypt -- Syllabic scripts of the Aegean -- The West Semitic revolution -- What kind of writing was West Semitic? -- The origins of West Semitic writing -- Chinese logography -- Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica -- The Greek alphabet : a writing that changed the world -- Summary and conclusions. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996441550803316 |
Powell Barry B
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| Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell
| Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell |
| Autore | Powell Barry B |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
| Disciplina | 411.09 |
| Soggetto topico |
Writing - History
Alphabet - History Writing - Social aspects |
| ISBN |
1-283-45402-5
9786613454027 1-118-29348-7 1-118-29351-7 1-118-29350-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood -- What is writing? -- Writing with signs -- Categories and features of writing -- Some general issues in the study of writing -- Protocuneiform and counting tokens -- Origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia -- Plato's Ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Egyptian writing and Egyptian speech -- The origin and nature of Egyptian writing -- "The house of life" : scribes and writing in ancient Egypt -- Syllabic scripts of the Aegean -- The West Semitic revolution -- What kind of writing was West Semitic? -- The origins of West Semitic writing -- Chinese logography -- Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica -- The Greek alphabet : a writing that changed the world -- Summary and conclusions. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139692303321 |
Powell Barry B
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| Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell
| Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell |
| Autore | Powell Barry B |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
| Disciplina | 411.09 |
| Soggetto topico |
Writing - History
Alphabet - History Writing - Social aspects |
| ISBN |
1-283-45402-5
9786613454027 1-118-29348-7 1-118-29351-7 1-118-29350-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood -- What is writing? -- Writing with signs -- Categories and features of writing -- Some general issues in the study of writing -- Protocuneiform and counting tokens -- Origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia -- Plato's Ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Egyptian writing and Egyptian speech -- The origin and nature of Egyptian writing -- "The house of life" : scribes and writing in ancient Egypt -- Syllabic scripts of the Aegean -- The West Semitic revolution -- What kind of writing was West Semitic? -- The origins of West Semitic writing -- Chinese logography -- Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica -- The Greek alphabet : a writing that changed the world -- Summary and conclusions. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910831046103321 |
Powell Barry B
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| Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell
| Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell |
| Autore | Powell Barry B |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
| Disciplina | 411.09 |
| Soggetto topico |
Writing - History
Alphabet - History Writing - Social aspects |
| ISBN |
1-283-45402-5
9786613454027 1-118-29348-7 1-118-29351-7 1-118-29350-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood -- What is writing? -- Writing with signs -- Categories and features of writing -- Some general issues in the study of writing -- Protocuneiform and counting tokens -- Origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia -- Plato's Ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Egyptian writing and Egyptian speech -- The origin and nature of Egyptian writing -- "The house of life" : scribes and writing in ancient Egypt -- Syllabic scripts of the Aegean -- The West Semitic revolution -- What kind of writing was West Semitic? -- The origins of West Semitic writing -- Chinese logography -- Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica -- The Greek alphabet : a writing that changed the world -- Summary and conclusions. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911020203603321 |
Powell Barry B
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| Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The writing revolution [[electronic resource] ] : cuneiform to the Internet / / Amalia E. Gnanadesikan
| The writing revolution [[electronic resource] ] : cuneiform to the Internet / / Amalia E. Gnanadesikan |
| Autore | Gnanadesikan Amalia E |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (532 p.) |
| Disciplina | 411.09 |
| Collana | The language library |
| Soggetto topico |
Writing - History
Alphabet - History |
| ISBN |
1-4443-0467-4
9786612115882 1-4443-0468-2 1-282-11588-X 1-4443-5985-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910141341203321 |
Gnanadesikan Amalia E
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| Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The writing revolution : cuneiform to the Internet / / Amalia E. Gnanadesikan
| The writing revolution : cuneiform to the Internet / / Amalia E. Gnanadesikan |
| Autore | Gnanadesikan Amalia E |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (532 p.) |
| Disciplina | 411.09 |
| Collana | The language library |
| Soggetto topico |
Writing - History
Alphabet - History |
| ISBN |
9786612115882
9781444304671 1444304674 9781444304688 1444304682 9781282115880 128211588X 9781444359855 1444359851 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815604203321 |
Gnanadesikan Amalia E
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| Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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