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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Africa has become recognized as the continent where man and language originated. In this book we explain that Africans h
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Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is
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Visible Speech is an attempt to set the record straight about the nature of writing. John DeFrancis, a noted specialist
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As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research. Wri
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Guidebook for audio lectures
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Understanding Relations Between Scripts examines the writing systems of the ancient Aegean and Cyprus in the second and
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The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the “
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