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Script And Scribble : The Rise And Fall Of Handwriting

  • Script And Scribble : The Rise And Fall Of Handwriting

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    Kitty Burns Florey

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    Book, Melville House Pub, 2009

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    Weaving together the evolution of writing implements and scripts, pen collecting societies, the golden age of American penmanship, the growth in popularity of handwriting analysis, and the pockets of aficionados who still prefer scribbling on paper to tapping on keys, she poses the question: Is writing by hand really no longer necessary in today?s busy world? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  Z43 .F58 2009  AVAILABLE

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The Rosetta Stone And The Rebirth Of Ancient Egypt

  • The Rosetta Stone And The Rebirth Of Ancient Egypt

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    John Ray

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    Book, Harvard University Press, 2007

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    Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series (Part I and Part II) The Rosetta Stone is one of the world’s great wonders, attracting awed pilgrims by the tens of thousands each year. A pharaoh’s forgotten decree, cut in granite in three scripts–Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian demotic, and ancient Greek–the Rosetta Stone promised to unlock the door to the language of ancient Egypt and its 3,000 years of civilization, if only it could be deciphered. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PJ1531.R5 R39 2007  AVAILABLE

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Hebrew Manuscripts Of The Middle Ages

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Graffiti And The Writing Arts Of Early Modern England

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Lost Languages : The Enigma Of The World’s Undeciphered Scripts

  • Lost Languages : The Enigma Of The World's Undeciphered Scripts

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    Andrew Robinson

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    Book, McGraw-Hill, 2002

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    In Lost Languages, Andrew Robinson reports from the front lines of the global efforts now under way to crack the Meroitic hieroglyphs of ancient Nubia, the Etruscan alphabet, the Indus Valley Sealstones, the Zapotec script (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  P211 .R59 2002  AVAILABLE

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Mysteries Of The Alphabet : The Origins Of Writing

  • Mysteries Of The Alphabet : The Origins Of Writing

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    Marc-Alain Ouaknin ; translated from the French by Josephine Bacon

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    Book, 1st ed, Abbeville Press, 1999

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  P211 .O913 1999  AVAILABLE

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The British Library Guide To Writing And Scripts : History And Techniques

  • The British Library Guide To Writing And Scripts : History And Techniques

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    Michelle P. Brown

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    Book, University of Toronto Press, 1998

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  P211 .B6967 1998  AVAILABLE
     (UPPER LEVEL)  P211 .B6967 1998 c.2 AVAILABLE

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A Bibliographic History Of The Book : An Annotated Guide To The Literature

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The History And Power Of Writing

  • The History And Power Of Writing

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    Henri-Jean Martin ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane

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    Book, University of Chicago Press, 1994

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    Cultural history on a grand scale, this immensely readable book?the summation of decades of study by one of the world’s great scholars of the book?is the story of writing from its very beginnings to its recent transformations through technology. Using as his center the role of printing in making the written way of thinking dominant, Martin examines the interactions of individuals and cultures to produce new forms of “writing” in the many senses of authorship, language rendition, and script. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  Z40 .M3713 1994  AVAILABLE

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The Red Record : The Wallam Olum : The Oldest Native North American History

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Reading The Past : Ancient Writing From Cuneiform To The Alphabet

  • Reading The Past : Ancient Writing From Cuneiform To The Alphabet

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    introduced by J.T. Hooker

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    Book, University of California Press/British Museum, 1990

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  P211 .R37 1990  AVAILABLE

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Scribes, Script, And Books : The Book Arts From Antiquity To The Renaissance

  • Scribes, Script, And Books : The Book Arts From Antiquity To The Renaissance

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    Leila Avrin ; illustrations by Malla Carl and Noah Ophir

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    Book, American Library Association, 1991

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     OVERSIZE (UPPER)  Z4 .A88 1990  AVAILABLE

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The Writing Systems Of The World

  • The Writing Systems Of The World

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    Florian Coulmas

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    Book, B. Blackwell, 1989

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    This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from earliest times to the present. he ranges across the writing systems of western Asia and the Middle East, the Indian families and the various alphabetic traditions which had its origins in the multifarious world of Semitic writing and came to full bloom in pre-Classical Greece. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  P211 .C67 1989  AVAILABLE

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Chinese

  • Chinese

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    Jerry Norman

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    Book, Cambridge University Press, 1988

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    This general introduction to the study of Chinese traces the language’s history from its beginnings in the second millennium B.C. Chinese includes information on the genetic and typological connections of the language, the writing system, the classical and early vernacular tongues, the modern language and non-standard dialects, and the history of linguistic reform in China. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PL1075 .N67 1988  AVAILABLE

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Illuminated Manuscripts : The Book Before Gutenberg

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