"In this new edition, the author reveals the latest discoveries to have an impact on the history of writing, including the Tabula Cortonensis showing Etruscan symbols, and a seal from Turkmenistan that could solve the mystery of how Chinese writing evolved. He also discusses how…
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In this book the author explains the interconnection between sound, symbol and script for each of the major writing systems in turn, & follows the trail of discovery and decipherment from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the scripts of China and Japan today.
Writing is one of humanity's greatest inventions. But how, when and where did writing evolve? This work discusses the history of decipherment and then each of the major writing systems in turn, from cuneiform and Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs to alphabets and the scripts of Chi…
Writing is perhaps humanity's greatest invention. Without it there would be no history and no civilization as we know it. The Story of Writing is the first book to demystify writing for the general reader. In a succinct and absorbing text, Andrew Robinson explains the interconne…
This is a survey of the world's major scripts, studied through sight, sound and symbol and follows the trail of discovery and decipherment from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the scripts of China and Japan today. The author explains the interconnection between sound, symbol, and script…
An introduction to writing from discovery to decipherment, from clay tablet to computer screen, from ice age to space age. Contents include how writing works, Egyptian hieroglyphs, alphabets, Chinese and Japanese writing, etc.
"This new book by Malcolm Parkes makes a fundamental contribution to the history of handwriting. Handwriting is a versatile medium that has always allowed individual scribes the opportunity for self-expression, despite the limitations of the pen and the finite number of possible…
"This new book by Malcolm Parkes makes a fundamental contribution to the history of handwriting. Handwriting is a versatile medium that has always allowed individual scribes the opportunity for self-expression, despite the limitations of the pen and the finite number of possible…
The concern with identity and belonging, with place/dis-placement is a major feature of postcolonial literature and the theme of alienation cannot but be "topical" in the literatures of the countries that have experienced the cultural shock and bereavement, and the physical and …
The concern with identity and belonging, with place/dis-placement is a major feature of postcolonial literature and the theme of alienation cannot but be ""topical"" in the literatures of the countries that have experienced the cultural shock and bereavement, and the physical an…
Maintaining that Aristotle's writings about the natural world contain a rhetorical surface as well as a philosophic core, David Bolotin argues in this book that Aristotle never seriously intended many of his doctrines that have been demolished by modern science. To that end, he …
Whilst the fundamental significance of the spoken language for human interaction is widely acknowledged, that of writing is less well known, and in this wide-ranging series of essays Jack Goody examines in depth the complex and often confused relationship between oral and litera…