The World’s Writing Systems 0195079930

The World’s Writing Systems 0195079930

Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is

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Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories 9780520934979

Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 

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Writing women's worlds: Bedouin stories 9780520079465, 9780520083042

Extrait de la couverture : " In 1978 Lila Abu-Lughod climbed out of a dusty van to meet members of a small Awlad &#

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The writing systems of the world 0631180281

This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from earliest times to the present. Its aim is to explore th

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Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories 0520083040, 9780520083042

Table of contents : cover......Page 1 Local Disk......Page 0 228baad413dd54950d4e7b5a2517ac2e......Page 2 3df92247e53cf6

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Second Language Writing Systems 9781853597954

This book looks at how people learn and use a 2nd language writing system, arguing that they are affected by characteris

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African Origin World Writing Systems 9781693429842

Africa has become recognized as the continent where man and language originated. In this book we explain that Africans h

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Visible speech : the diverse oneness of writing systems 9780824812072, 0824812077

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Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems 9780824841621

Visible Speech is an attempt to set the record straight about the nature of writing. John DeFrancis, a noted specialist

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Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems 1785706446, 9781785706448

Understanding Relations Between Scripts examines the writing systems of the ancient Aegean and Cyprus in the second and

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