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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...
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| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
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Malden, Mass. u.a.
Wiley-Blackwell
2009
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | The language library
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| Online Zugang: | Cover Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 3400 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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 310 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9781405154062 978-1-4051-5406-2 9781405154079 978-1-4051-5407-9 |