| Series |
The language library
Language library. ^A638151
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| Contents |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008014284 |
| ISBN | 1405154063 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781405154062 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1405154071 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781405154079 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
