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037 _a10.1002/9781444304671
_bWiley InterScience
_nhttp://www3.interscience.wiley.com
050 4 _aP211
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082 0 4 _a411.09
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049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aGnanadesikan, Amalia E.
245 1 4 _aThe writing revolution :
_bcuneiform to the Internet /
_cAmalia E. Gnanadesikan.
264 1 _aChichester, U.K. ;
_aMalden, MA :
_bWiley-Blackwell,
_c2009.
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 310 pages, [8] pages of plates) :
_billustrations (some color), maps.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aThe language library
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 281-296) and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
588 0 _aPrint version record.
650 0 _aWriting
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAlphabet
_xHistory.
650 7 _aAlphabet.
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650 7 _aWriting.
_2fast
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655 4 _aElectronic books.
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
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776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aGnanadesikan, Amalia E.
_tWriting revolution.
_dChichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
_w(DLC) 2008014284
830 0 _aLanguage library.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1002/9781444304671
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