The writing revolution (Record no. 167979)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
|---|---|
| fixed length control field | 01998nam a2200373 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 411.09 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Gnanadesikan, Amalia E. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The writing revolution |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Chichester, U.K. ; |
| -- | Malden, MA : |
| Name of publisher | Wiley-Blackwell, |
| Year of publication | 2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii, 310 p., [8] p. of plates : |
| Other physical details | ill. (some col.), maps. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | The language library |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Writing |
| Topical Term | Alphabet |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10298100 |
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